[agents] CFP 3rd Intl Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems at AAMAS2009

[Toshiharu Sugawara]

                      Call for Papers

The Third International Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems:
           Models, Methods and Tools (MMAS’09).

              To be held in conjunction with the
8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems
                      (AAMAS 2009)

                URL http://indus.usask.ca/MMAS2009/
        Deadline for submitting full paper: February 1, 2009

New information systems and recent applications (ubiquitous computing,
networking, transport...) are often distributed, large scale, open,
heterogeneous and characterized by a dynamic environment. Millions of
software entities or electronic devices with computing facilities are
connected with each other, and are required to behave coherently often
in pursuit of extremely complex and distributed goals in dynamic
environments. Challenges in modelling, implementing, deploying and
controlling these systems are significant.

Massively multi-agent systems provide a suitable design paradigm and
an implementation method for these systems. As infrastructure of
massively multi-agent systems, technologies such as grid computing
together with semantic annotation can be combined with agent
technologies. A new system design approach -- society-centred design
-- may be realized by embedding participatory technologies in human
society. Applications include large-scale navigation, scientific or
social simulations, e-science, e-homes, e-offices and e-cities.

MMAS 2009 will build on the success of its predecessors: CCMMS 2007,
held in conjunction with AAMAS 2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii; MMAS 2006,
held jointly with LSMAS 2006, in conjunction with AAMAS 2006; and MMAS
2004, which was held at Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan, December 10
- 11, 2004.  The aim of CCMMS 2008 is to encourage existing activity
in the field; to bring together computer science, information science
and social science experts concerned with coordination and control in
MMAS, and applications of MMAS; and to share their perceptions and
explore future research challenges.

Areas of Interest are: (we would prefer not to rigorously limit topics
under the general category of the workshop.)

- Massively Multi-Agent Infrastructures
- Massively Multi-Sensor Systems
- Self-Organization Technologies for Massively Multi-Sensor Systems
- Design and Analysis of Massively Multi-Agent Systems
- Large-scale Participatory Technologies
- Massively Multi-Agent Coordination and Control
- Integrating Massively Multi-agent Systems and Social Worlds
- Applications of Massively Multi-Agent Systems
- Massively Multi-Agent Simulation
- Mega-Scale Navigation
- General Issues in Massively Multi-Agent Systems
The workshop will consist of oral presentations and/or invited talks.

Submit your full paper (ps or pdf, pdf is preferable) written in
English, by e-mail to zahia.guessoum at lip6.fr. Full papers should be
submitted camera-ready in Springer Lecture Note Series (LNCS/LNAI)
format. Please follow the instructions for authors available at the
Springer Web page:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Submitted full papers should be 12 to 15 pages long in the LNCS/LNAI
format. Surface mail address, e-mail addresses should be included for
all contributing authors.

  Deadline for submitting full paper: February 1, 2009
  Author notification: March 1, 2009
  Deadline for camera ready paper: March 15, 2009
  Workshop: May 11 or 12, 2008

All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two or three
reviewers from the program committee. The program committee will
evaluate each research paper based on relevance (to the workshop),
significance, clarity, originality and correctness. Our plan is that
selected papers will be published as a volume of the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series by Springer.

For more detailed and updated information, please visit:

  http://indus.usask.ca/MMAS2009/


Program Co-Chairs:
-Nadeem Jamali, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
-Zahia Guessoum, LIP6, University of Paris 6, France
-Toshiharu Sugawara, Waseda University, Japan

Program Committee members (to be completed):
Myriam Abramson, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Dan Corkill, University of Massachusetts, USA
Keith Decker, University of Delaware, USA
Alexis Drogoul, IRD, France
Hiromitsu Hattori, Kyoto University, Japan
Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
WooYoung Kim,  Intel, USA
Yasuhiko Kitamura, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University , China
Rene' Mandiau, Universite' de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambre'sis, France
Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Laboratories of America,Inc., USA
Michael J. North, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Hideyuki Nakashima, Future University, Japan
Akihiko Ohsuga, University of Electro-Communications, TOSHIBA
Corporation, Japan
Charlie Ortiz, Artificial Intelligence Center, USA
Ei-ichi Osawa,  Future University, Japan
Ichiro Satoh,  National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Paul Scerri,  Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Olivier Simonin, Universite' Henri Poincare', France
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Walt Truszkowski,  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Gaku Yamamoto, IBM Software Group, Japan
Jung-Jin Yang, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea
Franco Zambonelli, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy