[agents] Call For Paper : MASTS 2009

[Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni]

                 ***Apologies for multiple postings***

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  *                       CALL FOR PAPERS                        *
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  *                            MASTS 2009                        *
  *                   The International Workshop on              *
  *               Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics   *
  *                     Bucharest, 26-29 May, 2009               *
  *                   http://aimas.cs.pub.ro/masts2009/          *
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Welcome
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The MASTS 2009 Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics
will bring together researchers and practioners who are working on or are
interested in exploring novel approaches to multi-agent systems
development and the use of multi-agent systems technology in building
innovative applications.

The goal of the workshop is to present and discuss ideas and developments
related to two converging areas of research and applications, namely
multi-agent systems and semantic technology. The workshop aims to focus on
issues such as: the semantic role of agents in building complex
distributed applications, the collective and cognitive dimensions of the
multi-agent systems paradigm, and the use of agents in the development and
deployment of semantic web services.


Call for Papers
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The workshop welcomes high-quality papers including, but not limited to
the following topics:

--- Technologies for modeling and development of agent based systems
- novel architectures for multiagent systems
- semantic based agent interaction protocols and negotiation
- multi-agent planning
- multi-agent coordination techniques
- multi-agent learning
- self-organizing multi-agent systems
- emerging behaviour in agent systems

--- Agent systems and semantics
- the role of shared ontologies in agent systems
- agent systems and Semantic Web technologies
- ontologies for agent cooperation and coordination
- semantic interoperability
- semantic agent communities and applications

--- Novel agent applications
- agents for Web services and semantic Web services
- agent systems for modeling business processes
- business processes interoperability based on agents and semantics
- agent systems for Grid or cloud computing and the Semantic Grid
- agent systems for developing complex applications
- agent based systems and ambient intelligence
- conversational agents for innovative applications

The workshop is organized in conjunction with the 17th International
Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS17) and will be
held at the University Politehnica of Bucharest. The workshop will begin
on Thursday morning, May 28 and will run through May 29 at noon.