[agents] CFP: Third International Workshop on Agent Technology for Sensor Networks

[Alex Rogers]

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                 CFP:  Third International Workshop on
                  Agent Technology for Sensor Networks
                            (ATSN 2009)


                To be held in conjunction with the Eighth
     International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems
                           (AAMAS 2009)

                         11-12th May 2009
                      http://www.atsn09.org/

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Sensor networks are increasingly seen as a solution to the problem of performing
wide-area monitoring and surveillance within environmental, security and military
scenarios. Such networks consist of multiple sensors, deployed over a wide area,
connected through a communication network (wired or otherwise). To ensure minimal
human intervention the sensors within these networks should be able to self-organise,
autonomously manage their own resources, and co-ordinate their behaviour to achieve
system wide goals. The distributed nature of these networks, and the autonomous
behaviour expected of them, naturally lend themselves to a multi-agent methodology,
and many of the technical challenges posed by these systems  (e.g. decentralised
control, co-ordination, resource allocation) form the basis of main- stream research
within the agent community. However, such systems pose many additional challenges,
not least how to manage limited computation and energy resources, constrained
communication, and unreliable or fault prone network  components within a dynamic
and uncertain environment.

Furthermore, the increasing availability of sensor network data, and the need to
make use of it in real-time for informed decision making, requires the development
of intelligent agents that can autonomously acquire data from these networks, and
perform information processing tasks such as fusion, inference and prediction.

Thus, the goals of this workshop are to explore the use of agent technologies,
both within the networks themselves (where agents represent the actual sensors),
and also for the collection and processing of sensor network data. As such, topics
of interest include:

- Agent based management of sensor networks
- Novel paradigms for sensor network management (e.g. game theoretic approaches).
- Co-ordination and planning
- Adaptive and learning agents for sensor networks
- Energy and resource aware sensor networks
- Emergent behaviour
- Computational issues
- Data fusion and aggregation within sensor networks
- Reasoning with incomplete or uncertain information
- Security and trust in sensor networks
- Applications and real-world deployments of sensor networks
- Agent-based architectures for sensor networks
- Agent-based simulation of sensor networks
- Reliability, efficiency, and fault tolerance

Important dates
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* FEBRUARY 8th, 2009 - Submission of contributions to workshop
* MARCH 1st, 2009 - Workshop paper acceptance notification
* MAY 11/12th - Workshop takes place in conjunction with AAMAS 2009

* Please note that these are preliminary dates, which will be confirmed
  in the next few weeks.

Publication
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In conjunction with this workshop, we are organising a special issue of the
Computer Journal --- the journal of the British Computer Society --- on Agent
Technology for Sensor Networks. The authors of the best papers from the workshop
will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for this issue.

Submission
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The workshop welcomes submissions of original works relevant to the topics described
above. This year, the workshop will accept submissions of both full papers (maximum 8 pages)
and short papers (maximum 4 pages).

All submissions should conform to the ACM Proceedings formatting instructions. See http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
for more details.


Reviewing process
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Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Criteria for selection of papers will
include: originality, readability, relevance to themes, soundness, and overall quality.



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Dr. Alex Rogers
Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
Electronics & Computer Science
University of Southampton
Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
Email : acr at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone : +44 (0) 23 8059 9008
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