[agents] MALLOW-AWESOME'009, CfP

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                Agents, Web-Services, and Ontologies
             Integrated Methodologies (AWESOME'009)

                      International Workshop
               Turin, IT, September 7th - 11th, 2009

                 Federated workshop of MALLOW 2009:
        Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organizations

             URL: http://awesome009.disi.unige.it/


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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Following the success of the previous edition held in Durham in 2007,
MALLOW-AWESOME'009 wants to stimulate discussion among researchers
working on Agents, Web Services, and Ontologies, in order to help the
identification and definition of methodologies for integrating them.
The realisation of distributed, open, dynamic, and heterogeneous software
systems is, in fact, a challenge that involves many facets, from formal
theories to software engineering and practical applications. Scientists
in various research areas, such as Semantic Web, Web Services, Agents,
Ontologies, are attacking this problem from different perspectives.
MALLOW-AWESOME'009 attempts to provide a discussion forum for collecting
and comparing such diverse experiences with the aim of fostering cross
fertilization.

Topics of interest are all those concerned with integrated and/or
cross-field approaches for engineering Agents, Web Services, Ontologies.
They include, but are not limited to:

- Semantic Web Agents and Semantic WSs
- Integrated Methodologies, notations, infrastructures for Agents, WSs,
   Ontologies
- Enhancement of communication among Agents/WSs by means of Ontologies
- Formal aspects for Agents, WSs and Ontologies
- Service-oriented multiagent systems
- Implementing Agents with WS technologies
- Agent-inspired declarative approaches to WSs or SOA
- Exploiting AOSE for engineering WSs and Ontologies
- Orchestrations, choreographies, and interaction protocols: languages,
   theory and practice
- Ontologies for Agents and/or WSs: languages, theory and practice
- Formal description of contracts and negotiation policies
- Tools for semantic WSs/Agents
- Applications of semantic WSs/Agents
- Security and trust in Agents/WSs settings


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: June, 10th, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July, 1st, 2009
Final version due: July, 15th, 2009
Workshop: September 7th - 11th, 2009


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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
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We welcome and encourage the submission of high-quality, original
papers, which are not being submitted simultaneously for publica-
tion elsewhere. Papers should be written  in  English,  formatted
according  to IEEEtran style file for papers, and should not exce-
ed the limit of 8 pages.

You can find styles for LaTeX, BibTeX and documentations at the
following address:
http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/

Paper submission is electronic via the workshop home page:
http://awesome009.disi.unige.it/datesAndInstructions.html

Accepted papers will appear in pre-proceedings published by MALLOW.
We aim to publish a selection of revised and expanded papers as an
international journal special issue, as we did for the previous
edition of the workshop.


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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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     * Matteo Baldoni, Universita`  di Torino, IT
     * Cristina Baroglio, Universita`  di Torino, IT
     * Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, CA
     * Viviana Mascardi, Universita`  di Genova, IT


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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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     * Federico Bergenti, Universita`  di Parma, IT
     * Mario Bravetti, Universita`  di Bologna, IT
     * Antonio Brogi, Universita`  di Pisa, IT
     * Federico Chesani, Universita`  di Bologna, IT
     * Marco Comuzzi, City University London, UK
     * Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University, NL
     * Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, University of Paris 6, FR
     * Pilar Herrero, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES
     * Benjamin Hirsch, Technische Universitaet Berlin, DE
     * Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Insitute of Informatics, JP
     * Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, AE
     * Peter Massuthe, Humboldt University Berlin, DE
     * Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK
     * Viviana Patti, Universita`  di Torino, IT
     * Adam Pease, Articulate Software, California, US
     * Axel Polleres, National University of Ireland, IE
     * Alessandro Ricci, Universita`  di Bologna, IT
     * Birna van Riemsdijk, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, DE
     * Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein Technologies AG, Zurich, CH
     * Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, US
     * Christopher Walton, Metaforic, UK
     * Hamdi Yahyaoui, KFUPM, KSA
     * Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London , UK
     * Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK


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MALLOW 2009 ORGANIZERS
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     * Cristina Baroglio, Universita`  di Torino, IT
     * Matteo Baldoni, Universita`  di Torino, IT
     * Guido Boella, Universita`  di Torino, IT