[agents] 2nd CfP : SARC'2009

[Emmanuel ADAM]

*2nd Call for Paper*

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                      SARC2009
          Second International Workshop on
   Self-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation
             in Holonic Multi-Agent Systems
               and in Multi-Agent Systems

   http://sarc.workshop.free.fr/2009/

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/Located at the third IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and 
Self-Organizing Systems/
San Francisco, California, September 14-18, 2009
http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/saso2009/


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*OBJECTIVES*

Holonic Multi-Agent Systems, mainly used and developed in manufacturing
systems, are more and more used in other fields such as complex system
simulations, information systems, cooperative work...
Holonic Multi-Agent Systems are flexible; the only strict obligation is
to follow a pyramidal structure. They really have an interesting
potential, however, methods and tools to facilitate their design and
management, in particular regarding to their Self-Adaptation and
Self-Organization properties, are required.
Indeed, the main characteristics of an Holonic Multi-Agent System, that
are the robustness and the cooperation, are dependent of the dynamic of
the multi-agent system.
Robustness enables Multi-Agent Systems to cope with perturbations,
faults and hard constraints. Implementing such a property is typically a
self-organization problem where regeneration of faulty agents,
generation of new agents and/or migration of agents between Holonic
Multi-Agent Systems are some examples of the proposed answers.
Cooperation means that even if each agent has classically its own goals
and strategies in the pyramidal organization, all agents taken together
have to collectively lead the Holonic Multi-Agent System to its intended
global goal. This property is generally processed by letting the agents
locally and autonomously modifying their roles or behaviors, by adapting
their strategies to work with other agents; it is a self-adaptation
property.
Emergence of behaviors, roles or organization is a reality and a need in
Holonic Multi-Agent Systems and has to be analyzed and controlled.
Second International Workshop on Self-Adaptation for Robustness and
Cooperation proposes a framework to discuss on models and methods linked
to robustness and cooperation in holonic multi-agent systems, and
multi-agent systems, enabling emergence of new behaviors and
sub-organizations.
The workshop also aims to establish links between searchers that come
from the Information Technologies field and searchers working in the
holonic manufacturing systems domain.



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*TOPICS OF INTEREST*

We seek contributions on ongoing innovative work and applications on
robustness and cooperation issues in multi-agent system based on
Self-Adaptation and Self-Organization capacities. Specifically, the
workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
* holonic multi-agent system,
* fault-recovery in holonic multi-agent systems,
* models of cooperation and coordination for autonomous holonic agents,
* predicting and controlling emergence of behavior in holonic
multi-agent systems,
* self-adaptation of roles and/or services in holonic multi-agent systems,
* delegation tasks, reconfiguration tasks in holonic multi-agent systems,
* self-organization of pyramidal-structured holonic multi-agent systems,
* case studies that shows self-adaptation or self-organization in
holonic multi-agent systems,
* models of self-management for holonic multi-agent systems,
* models and meta-models of self-organizing holonic multi-agent systems,
* models and meta-models for hybrid multi-agent systems.

A particular attention will be given to papers which address case
studies, and which present self-adaptation or self-organization
mechanisms in holonic multi-agent systems.


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*IMPORTANT DATES*

/Paper submission deadline:/ *July 10th, 2009*
Paper notifications: August 5th, 2009
Workshop: September 14th or 15th, 2009 just before the technical tracks
of the conference.

*****!!! Workshop attendees are requested to register for the main
conference. !!!*****


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*AUTHORS GUIDELINES AND SUBMISSION*

A particular attention will be given to papers which address case
studies, and which present self-adaptation or self-organization
mechanisms in holonic multi-agent systems.
Each paper will be reviewed by three members of the program committee.
The submission should be 6 pages in length, including figures and
references.
The paper must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press
proceedings style guide 8.5" x 11" Two-Column Format.

/Submission:/
Authors can submit their propositions before July 10th 2009, in pdf
format, through the EasyChair URL  :
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=sarc2009

/Publication Channels/
A selection of articles will be published as post-proceedings.


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*ORGANIZING COMITTEE*

Emmanuel Adam (contact),
LAMIH - UMR CNRS 8530, Universite de Valenciennes et du
Hainaut-Cambresis - FRANCE
Email: emmanuel.adam at univ-valenciennes.fr

Vincent Hilaire
SET - UTBM Belfort, France

Paulo Leitao
Department of Electrical Engineering
Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal

Paul Valckenaers
Division of Production Engineering, Machine Design and Automation (PMA)
KUL, Leuven, Belgium


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*PROGRAM COMITTEE

Frederic Armetta, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Jose Barata, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Carole Bernon, IRIT Toulouse, France
Valerie Camps, IRIT Toulouse, France
Marco Dorigo, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italie
Zahia Guessoum, LIP6, CReSTIC-Reims
Viviana Mascardi, Universita di Genova, Italy
Andrea Omicini, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Gauthier Picard, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Leon Van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece
Alois Zoitl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria


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