[agents] Deadline Extension - LAM'09 (Logics for Agents and Mobility)

[FARWER B.]

3rd Call for Papers

Workshop on Logics for Agents and Mobility (LAM'09)
http://www.dur.ac.uk/lam.09
9-10 August 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA

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!!!  DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 17 MAY 2009 !!!

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NEWS:
   * Post-Proceeding will be published as a special issue of  
Fundamenta Informaticae

   * Invited Speakers: Dale Miller (INRIA), Frederick Peschanski  
(Paris 6), Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon)
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Workshop Purpose:

Our aim is to bring together active researchers in the area of logics
and mobile systems, especially in the field of logics and calculi for
mobility, agents, and multi-agent systems. Many notions used in the
theory of agents are derived from philosophy, logic, and linguistics
(belief, desire, intention, speech act, etc.), and interdisciplinary
discourse has proved fruitful for the advance of this domain. Outside
of academia, the deployment of large-scale pervasive infrastructures
(mobile ad-hoc networks, mobile devices, RFIDs, etc.) is becoming a
reality. This raises a number of scientific and technological
challenges for the software modelling and programming models for such
large-scale, open and highly-dynamic distributed systems. The agent
and multi-agent systems approach seems particularly adapted to tackle
this challenge, but there are many issues remaining to be
investigated. For instance, the agents must be location-aware since
the actual services available to them may depend on their (physical or
virtual) location. The quality and quantity of resources at their
disposal is also largely fluctuant, and the agents must be able to
adapt to such highly dynamic environments. Moreover, mobility itself
raises a large number of difficult issues related to safety and
security, which require the ability to reason about the software (e.g.
for analysis or verification). Logics and type systems with temporal
or other kinds of modalities (relating to location, resource and/or
security-awareness) play a central role in the semantic
characterisation and then verification of properties about mobile
agent systems. There are still many open problems and research
questions in the theory of such systems. The workshop is intended to
showcase results and current work being undertaken in these areas with
a focus on logics for specification and verification of dynamic,
mobile systems.


Scopes of Interest:

The topics of interest include but are not limited to
- logics and other formalisms for specification and reasoning about  
agents, MAS, and mobile systems in a broader sense
- treatment of location and resources in logics (e.g. Linear Logic, BI- 
Logic, ambient calculus, spatial logics) and other formalisms
- security in ad-hoc networks
- temporal/modal logics and model checking
- type systems and static analysis
- logic programming.


Format of the Workshop:

The workshop will be held as a two day event before LICS. There will
be a general introduction and brief survey of the field by the
organiser as an introduction to the workshop.

The workshop will contain invited talks, contributed talks, and a
discussion session. The latter is meant to give the participants a
chance to discuss informally research directions, open problems, and
possible co-operations.


Submission details:

Authors are invited to submit a full paper of original work in the
areas mentioned above. The workshop chair should be informed of
closely related work submitted to a conference or journal in advance
of submission. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to
present it at the LAM’09 workshop. Submissions should not exceed 15
pages, preferably using the LaTeX article class. The following formats
are accepted: PDF, PS. Please send your submission electronically to LAM.09 at durham.ac.uk
   by the deadline listed below. The submissions will be reviewed by
the workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers. Accepted
papers will appear in informal workshop pre-proceedings and authors
will be encouraged to re-submit papers to formal proceedings to be
published as a special journal issue of Fundamenta Informaticae.


Invited Speakers:

Dale Miller (INRIA, France)
Frederick Peschanski (Paris 6, France)
Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon, USA)


Important Dates:

Submission Deadline (extended): 17 May 2009
Notification: 12 June 2009
Preliminary programme: 19 June 2009
Final papers for proceedings: 10 July 2009
Workshop: 9–10 August 2009


Programme Committee:

Thomas Agotnes, Bergen, Norway
Matteo Baldoni, Torino, Italy
Marina De Vos, Bath, UK
Louise Dennis, Liverpool, UK
Jürgen Dix, Clausthal, Germany
Berndt Farwer (chair), Durham, UK
Michael Fisher, Liverpool, UK
Didier Galmiche, Nancy, France
Paul Harrenstein, München, Germany
James Harland, Melbourne, Australia
Andreas Herzig, Toulouse, France
Wojtek Jamroga, Clausthal, Germany
Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, Hamburg, Germany
João Leite, Lisbon, Portugal
Alessio Lomuscio, London, UK
Dale Miller, INRIA, France
Frederic Peschanski, Paris, France
Vladimiro Sassone, Southampton, UK
Mark-Oliver Stehr, Menlo Park, USA
Wamberto Vasconcelos, Aberdeen, UK


Further Information:

About the workshop: http://www.dur.ac.uk/lam.09
About LICS: http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics09/