[agents] Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Technical Forum Group - Bath event

[Massimo Cossentino]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, PAPERS AND POSITION STATEMENTS



Agent Oriented Software Engineering Technical Forum (AOSE TF)

http://www.pa.icar.cnr.it/cossentino/AOSETF08/

University of Bath, Bath, UK, 17th December 2008

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This sixth edition continues the tradition of the AOSE Technical Forum  
Group (TFG) started back in 2004. The scope of this Technical Forum  
(TF) is to work on agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) main  
challenges and its specific aim is renewing and strengthening the  
cohesion of the AOSE community that participated in the previous  
meetings. As a tangible result of these events, several members of  
this TFG now share common research activities and projects originated  
from the discussions they had during the meetings (or after them).



The initial work plan for this full-day meeting mainly includes two  
parts: (i) presentations and discussion about research topics proposed  
by TFG supporters, and (ii) the discussion and finalization of a  
proposal to the FIPA board for the standardization of the description  
of design processes and their composing fragments.



The topics of interest for presentations and discussions are (but are  
not limited to):

- MAS-SPL: Multi-agent systems and software product lines;

- Agent modelling languages;

- Methodologies for agent-oriented analysis and design;

- Testing techniques for Multi-agent systems;

- Patterns, aspects and re-use approaches for agent-oriented software;

- Methodology evaluation;

- Model-driven architecture (MDA) for MAS;

- Refinement and synthesis techniques for agent-based specifications;

- Verification and validation techniques for agent-based systems;

- Software development environments and CASE tools for AOSE;

- Formal methods for agent-oriented systems, including specification  
and verification logics;

- Model checking for agent-oriented systems;

- Engineering large-scale agent systems;

- Experiences and real applications with agents;

- Market and other economic models in agent systems engineering;

- Practical coordination and cooperation frameworks for agent systems;

- Standardisations for AOSE;

- Trends in software engineering and AOSE (method engineering, model  
driven engineering, etc.)



Past meetings of the AOSE Technical Forum Group:

Rome (Sept. 2004): http://www.pa.icar.cnr.it/cossentino/al3tf1/

Ljubljana (Feb. 2005): http://www.pa.icar.cnr.it/cossentino/al3tf2/

Budapest (Sept. 2005): http://www.pa.icar.cnr.it/cossentino/al3tf3/

Lisbon (Dec. 2006), http://set.utbm.fr/index.php?pge=331

Hammameth (Dec. 2007), http://www.pa.icar.cnr.it/cossentino/AOSETF08/





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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

The meeting will be a full-day meeting to be held on December, 17th.

It will consist of two sessions: a paper/talk session and a discussion  
session about the FIPA proposal. In the first one a small number of  
short presentations will be given and open and moderated discussions  
will follow. The goal of these talks will not only consist in the  
presentation of research novelties but rather in contributions aiming  
at collecting feedback from the community on an under-going work,  
presenting collaboration opportunities to the community or achieving  
consensus for a (potentially) shared activity. Position talks  
reporting the authors point of view on a relevant AOSE-related  
research topic are welcome as well.

In the second session a broad discussion about the FIPA proposal will  
be held with the aim of completing it. Submission of the proposal  
should follow a few days after the meeting if it will successfully  
completed.

The short presentation speakers are still to be selected and will be  
announced through the AOSE TF web page.


The schedule, contributions (both in form of papers and presentation  
slides), and other working documents will be published on the event  
web page:



http://www.pa.icar.cnr.it/cossentino/AOSETF08/



Discussions about the program and the topics of the meeting will take  
place in the AOSE mailing list (al3_aose at pa.icar.cnr.it). To subscribe  
send an email at: al3_aose-subscribe at pa.icar.cnr.it



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CONTRIBUTIONS

Participants are STRONGLY encouraged to submit a paper thus allowing  
other attendees to know, well before the meeting, the arguments that  
will be discussed there.

We accept position papers, papers illustrating new researches in the  
area as well as any other scientific relevant contribution (also  
demonstration of prototypes) about the above listed topics and with  
the above described aims. There will be no formal proceedings  
therefore published papers are acceptable too (provided that no  
existing copyright is infringed).

The format and length of such position papers are open.



Registration for AOSE TF is free. Unfortunately, there will be no  
funding for attendants in this edition. We would like to invite all  
those who are interested in participating with an off-line  
contribution to submit a paper about the above-mentioned topics.  
Papers should be sent to the event chairs listed below and they will  
be published on the AOSE TFG web page.



The deadline for contributions related to talks to be held during the  
meeting has been postponed to

***November 30th***

while contributions just for publication in the website could be sent  
even after the event, perhaps to clarify an opinion issued during the  
meeting.

Please contact event chairs if you need more time for your  
contribution or you have specific proposals/requests.



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AOSE TF chairs:

Massimo Cossentino (Italian National Research Council, ICAR Institute, cossentino at pa.icar.cnr.it 
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Frederic Migeon (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse,  
University Paul Sabatier, France, frederic.migeon at irit.fr)



Andrea Omicini (Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemi,  
Università di Bologna, Italy,

andrea.omicini at unibo.it)





Abderrafiaa Koukam (Université de Technologie Belfort-Montbéliard,  
France, abder.koukam at utbm.fr)





See you in Bath



Massimo Cossentino

Frederic Migeon

Andrea Omicini

Abderrafiaa Koukam