[agents] ACM SAC 2010 - Special Track on AOSE Methodologies, Infrastructures and Processes

[Valeria Seidita]

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                                  CALL FOR PAPER

         AOMIP: AOse Methodologies, Infrastructures and Processes
         Track of the 25th Edition ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
                      Sierre, Switzerland, March 21 -26, 2009


        http://www.apice.unibo.it/xwiki/bin/view/AOMIP/

          http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/

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The aim of this track is the deeper investigations of Agent-Oriented
Software Engineering (AOSE) methodologies, infrastructures and processes.
The need of engineering new sorts of complex computational systems (like for
example self-* systems) for new kinds of application scenarios (like
pervasive systems) calls for new SE methodologies, frameworks,
infrastructures, and processes. Agent-oriented systems are the most likely
candidate to work as the sources for new metaphors, abstractions,
technologies, and methods for the engineering of complex systems.
In this track we aim at discussing all the elements that influence the
construction of complex computational systems as agent-oriented ones, by
promoting the interplay between researchers in AOSE methodologies,
agent-oriented frameworks and infrastructures, and AOSE processes, thus
encouraging the development of the very notion of AOSE towards the most
general and widest acceptation of the term.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The list of most relevant topics includes, but it is not limited to:

* Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
* Methodologies for agent-oriented analysis and design
* Infrastructures for multi-agent systems
* Design of software development processes
* Situational Method Engineering techniques for AOSE design processes
* Relationships between MAS meta-models and their relative AOSE
methodologies
* Relationships between AOSE processes and the other traditional processes
(e.g. OO)
* Relationship between AOSE methodologies and Infrastructures processes
* Meta-modelling techniques
* Software development process models
* Fragment definitions and descriptions
* Integration of agent-oriented methodologies, infrastructures and processes
* Approaches for AOSE methodologies: design patterns, components, and
architectures
* Supporting tools for AOSE methodologies/processes construction and
enactment
* Standardisation for AOSE methodologies and processes
* Self-* approaches in AOSE methodologies and processes


Important Dates:
Sept. 8, 2009: Paper submissions
Oct. 19, 2009: Author notification
Nov. 2, 2009: Camera-Ready Copy


Paper Publication
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers. All papers
will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three
referees. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM. Hence, all
accepted papers should be submitted in ACM 2-column camera-ready format for
publication in the symposium proceedings. Authors are allowed up to 8 pages
according to the template, but more than 5 pages in the camera ready will be
charged with 80USD per extra page. Paper submission should be in electronic
format, via the website: eCMS site http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010/



Organising Committee:
Massimo Cossentino, Italy
Ambra Molesini, Italy
Andrea Omicini, Italy
Valeria Seidita, Italy