[agents] AOSE'09: Call For Papers

[Jorge J. Gomez Sanz]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Tenth International Workshop on
AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (AOSE-2009)
http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/aose09
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To be held at The Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous
Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2009) Budapest, Hungary, May 11
(or 12) 2009

INTRODUCTION
Since the mid 1980s, software agents and multi-agent systems have
grown into a very active area of research and also commercial
development activity. One of the limiting factors in industry take up
of agent technology is however the lack of adequate software
engineering support, and knowledge in this area.
To bridge this gap, the Agent Oriented Software Engineering
workshop brings together researchers and practitioners on multi-agent
systems with a strong focus on software engineering issues.
The AOSE-2009 workshop will build on the success of the six previous
AOSE workshops. The first AOSE-2000 workshop was held at the ICSE2000
conference in Limerick, Ireland, in June 2000; The AOSE-2001 workshop
was held at the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents
(Agents 2001); since 2002, the AOSE workshop was co-located with the
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS).

WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
We plan to combine paper presentations with panel discussions and tools
demonstrations through the workshop. The aim is to foster a strong environment
for discussion and interaction, both through pre-designed mechanisms of panels,
and through careful chairing.
Depending on the quality of submitted papers, we may consider having short and
long presentations. Papers will be selected as long papers (25 minutes) or short
papers (10 minutes). You can find additional details in the PROCEEDINGS
section.
Both long and short papers will be combined to form  heterogeneous sessions
with enough time for panel discussions.

DEMOS
The workshop will welcome live demos. These demos would be performed by authors
of accepted papers or registered attendants without accepted papers. Authors of
accepted papers will be encouraged to show the software supporting their
contribution. Researchers not submitting regular papers but interested in
showing their software may participate as well by contacting
workshop organizers in advance. Requests would be evaluated by the
organizers to determine the interest for the workshop.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop welcomes the submission of all papers on aspects of agent
oriented software engineering. A non-exhaustive list of relevant topics
include:

* Methodologies for agent-oriented analysis and design
* Agent-oriented requirements analysis and specification;
* Relationship of AOSE to other SE paradigms (e.g., OO);
* Process models for agent-based development
* UML and agent systems;
* Model-driven architecture (MDA) for MAS;
* Service-oriented computing in the context of agent-based systems;
* Refinement and synthesis techniques for agent-based specifications;
* Verification and validation techniques for agent-based systems;
* Software development environments and CASE tools for AOSE;
* Standard APIs for agent programming;
* Formal methods for agent-oriented systems, including specification
  and verification logics;
* Model checking for agent-oriented systems;
* Engineering of large-scale agent systems;
* Experiences with field-tested agent systems;
* Best practice in agent-oriented development;
* Practical coordination and cooperation frameworks for agent systems;
* Standardisations for AOSE;
* Re-use approaches for agent-oriented software, including design
  patterns, frameworks, components, and architectures;
* Integration of agent-oriented software into existing business processes
  and implications on business process re-engineering;
* Implications of agent-oriented software on organizational and social
  structures within and between companies (e.g. changes in roles,
  responsibilities, transparency, business processes and decision schemes).

PROCEEDINGS
We plan to accept papers either as long or as short papers. Accepted long papers
will be considered for various publication routes, including the LNCS
post-proceedings, and journal  special issues. Short papers
will be part of post-proceedings provided they supere additional
reviews organised by the PC chairs.

To appear in any of the proceedings generated within the workshop it will be
required to have attended and defended the contribution in the workshop.
Proceedings from previous editions of AOSE were formally published by
Springer-Verlag within the LNCS series. The intention is, again, to
publish the proceedings with Springer. We also plan a special issue of
a journal in addition to the Springer proceedings, for selected papers
arising out of the workshop discussions. See the workshop web pages
for the latest news about this initiative.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
All papers, submitted as PDF files, must conform the LNCS
format and will have no more than 12 pages. Instructions and
templates can be found here:

 http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
The maximum length of the paper will be 12 pages.
Papers should be sent through the Easychair conference manager:

 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aose09

The submission procedure requires authors to create an account
through the conference manager.

IMPORTANT DATES
31 January, 2009: Paper submission
25 February 2009: Notification of accepted papers
5 March, 2009: Camera-ready submission
11-12 May, 2009: AOSE 2009 Workshop

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Marie-Pierre Gleizes (co-chair) Paul Sabatier University, France
Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz (co-chair) Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Contact email: jjgomez[this_is_an_at_]sip.ucm.es

STEERING COMMITTEE
Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy
Joerg Mueller, Technische Universitat Clausthal, Germany
Gerhard Weiss, Technical University Munich, Germany
Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Federico Bergenti (Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy)
Carole Bernon (University Paul Sabatier, France)
Olivier Boissier (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France)
Massimo Cossentino (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
Keith Decker (University of Delaware, USA)
Scott DeLoach (Kansas State University, USA)
Virginia Dignum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Klaus Fischer (DFKI GmbH, Germany)
Ruben Fuentes (Universidad Complutense, Spain)
Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento, Italy)
Laszlo Gulyas (AITIA International Inc.,Hungary)
Brian Henderson-Sellers (University of Technology, Australia)
Vincent Hilaire (Belfort-Montbeliard Technology University, France)
Tom Holvoet (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
Vicent Julian Inglada (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Joao Leite (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Juergen Lind (Iteratec, Germany)
Viviana Mascardi (Universitá di Genova, Italy)
Frederic Migeon (Paul Sabatier University, France)
Simon Miles (King's College London, UK)
Haris Mouratidis (University of East London, UK)
Andrea Omicini (Universita di Bologna, Italy)
Juan Pavon (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
H. Van Dyke Parunak (TechTeam Government Solutions, USA)
Michal Pechoucek (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Carlos Jose Pereira de Lucena (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Anna Perini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, UK)
Onn Shehory (Haifa University, Israel)
Viviane Torres da Silva (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Alessandro Ricci (Universita di Bologna, Italy)
Arnon Sturm (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Laszlo Varga (Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungary)
Eric Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
Danny Weyns (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand)


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