[agents] Call for Participation: 3rd Intl Workshop on Agent Technology for Sensor Networks

[Luke Teacy]

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                  Call For Participation for the

              Third International Workshop on

            Agent Technology for Sensor Networks

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

                       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
and market-oriented programming 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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* MARCH 15th 2009 - Early Registration Deadline for AAMAS 2009 ---  
including workshops. Register now to avoid late fee.
* MAY 12th - Workshop takes place in conjunction with AAMAS 2009

Organising Committee
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Dr. W. T. Luke Teacy (University of Southampton, UK)
Dr. Alex Rogers (University of Southampton, UK)
Dr. Daniel Corkhill (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Dr. Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Prof. Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)

Programme Committee
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Prof. Nicholas R. Jennings (University of Southampton, UK)
Dr. Dimitris K. Tasoulis (Imperial College London, UK)
Prof. Giuseppe Anastasi (University of Pisa, Italy)
Dr. Steve Reece (University of Oxford, UK)
Prof. Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Dr. Maxim Batalin (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Dr. Alessandro Farinelli (University of Southampton, UK)
Prof. Victor Lesser (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Dr. Rónán Mac Ruairí (Dundalk Institute of Technology, Republic of
Ireland)
Mr. Archie Chapman (University of Southampton, UK)
Prof. Alun Preece (University of Cardiff, UK)
Dr. Bruce Moulton (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Dr. Jesús Cerquides (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Dr. Juan Antonio Rodriguez (IIIA, CSIC, Spain)
Dr. Niki Trigoni (University of Oxford, UK)