[agents] [ESAW08] opening of registration and program available

[Laurent Vercouter]

Dear colleagues,

Registrations to the ESAW'08 workshop hosted in Saint-Etienne, France
from the 24th to the 26th september 2008 is now open:
http://www.emse.fr/esaw08/registration.php

We remind you that students participation is strongly encouraged by
the possibility of having a low registration fee for one student
that accompany one academic registration.

You can also book your accomodation with the following form:
http://www.emse.fr/esaw08/pdf/ResaOT.pdf

The preliminary program of ESAW'08 is the following:

*Wednesday 24th September*

08:30  Registration

09:30  Workshop start & welcome

10:00  Session “Organisations, norm-governed systems”
   - Alexander Artikis and Jeremy Pitt. Specifying Open Agent Systems: A 
Survey
   - Sebnem Bora, Ali Murat Tiryaki and Oguz Dikenelli. A Load Sharing 
Approach Based on Refactoring of Roles in Multi-Agent Systems
   - Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus, Daniel Moldt and Michael 
Kohler-Bußmeier. From Multi-Agent to Multi-Organization Systems: 
Utilizing Middleware Approaches
   - Carole Adam, Vincent Louis and Robert Demolombe. Formalising the 
institutional interpretation of actions in an extended BDI logics

12:30  LUNCH

14:00  Session “Problem solving”
   - Mahdi Zargayouna, Flavien Balbo and Gérard Scémama. A multi-agent 
approach for the dynamic VRPTW
   - Antoine Nongaillard, Philippe Mathieu and Brigitte Jaumard. A 
Multi-Agent Resource Negotiation for the Utilitarian Social Welfare

15:30  BREAK

16:00  Session “Demonstration”
   - Eric Matson. POLAR: A Graphical, Integrated Development Environment 
for Agent Organizations
   - Fabrice Bourge, Sebastien Picant, Carole Adam, and Vincent Louis. A 
Multi-agent Mediation Platform for Automatic B2B Exchanges
   - Brendan Neville and Jeremy Pitt. Simulating Agent Societies with 
PRESAGE
   - Daniel Okouya, Virginia Dignum. OperettA: A prototype tool for the 
design, analysis and development of multi-agent organization
   - Alessandro Ricci and Michele Piunti. CARTAGO and Friends: Open 
Societies of Heterogeneous Cognitive and Reactive Agents Playing 
Altogether with Artifacts in Shared Workspaces

Evening: Welcome reception

*Thursday 25th September*

09:00  Invited talk: Klaus Fischer. Designing Multiagent Systems - A 
Model-Driven Approach

10:00  BREAK

10:30  Session “Reputation, Privacy, Security”
   - Ambra Molesini, Enrico Denti and Andrea Omicini. RBAC-MAS & SODA: 
Experimenting RBAC in AOSE
   - Isaac Pinyol and Jordi Sabater Mir. Cognitive Social Evaluations 
for Multi-Context BDI Agents
   - Ludivine Crepin, Yves Demazeau, Olivier Boissier and François 
Jacquenet. Sensitive data transaction in Hippocratic Multi-Agent Systems

12:30  LUNCH

14:00  Session “Agent-Oriented Software Engineering”
   - Sylvain Rougemaille, Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Marie-Pierre Gleizes and 
Frédéric Migeon. ADELFE Design, AMAS-ML in Action: A Case Study
   - Ibrahim Cakirlar, Erdem Eser Ekinci and Oguz Dikenelli. Exception 
Handling in Multi-Agent Systems
   - François Gaillard, Yoann Kubera, Philippe Mathieu and Sebastien 
Picault. A reverse engineering form for Multi Agent Systems
   - Joey Sik-Chun Lam, Frank Guerin, Wamberto Vasconcelos and Timothy 
Norman. Coping with Exceptions in Agent-Based Workflow Enactments

Evening:  Social Event & Gala Dinner

*Friday 26th September*

09:00  Invited talk: Paul Bourgine. Distributed Problem Solving in 
natural and artificial complex systems

10:00  BREAK

10:30  Session “Self-Organisation”
   - Ognen Paunovski, George Eleftherakis and Tony Cowling. Fuzzy 
Approach to Detection of Emergent Herd Formations in Multi-Agent Simulation
   - François Klein, Christine Bourjot and Vincent Chevrier. Controlling 
the Global Behaviour of a Reactive MAS : Reinforcement Learning Tools
   - Hugo Carr, Jeremy Pitt and Alexander Artikis. Peer Pressure as a 
Driver of Adaptation in Agent Societies

12:30  LUNCH

14:00  Session “Simulation”
   - Yoann Kubera, Philippe Mathieu and Sebastien Picault. Interaction 
Biases in Multi-Agent Simulations : An Experimental Study
   - André Campos, Frank Dignum and Virginia Dignum. From Individuals to 
Social and Vice-versa
   - Carole Bernon, Davy Capera and Jean-Pierre Mano. Engineering 
Self-Modeling Systems: Application to Biology


ESAW'08 organizing comittee
(Alexander Artikis, Gauthier Picard, Laurent Vercouter)
-- 
Laurent Vercouter, Maitre-Assistant / Assistant Professor
SMA Dpt/G2I Center, Ecole des Mines de St-Etienne, France
Phone: +33 4 77 42 66 03    http://www.emse.fr/~vercouter