[agents] CFP: Workshop SEAS 2009 @ SBES

[Viviane Torres da Silva]

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			FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 
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			    SEAS 2009 
  5th Workshop on Software Engineering for Agent-oriented Systems 
               Fortaleza, Brazil, October 6, 2009 
              http://www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/seas2009 


               Held in Conjunction with 
   SBES 2009 - XXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering 
		http://www.sbbd-sbes2009.ufc.br/ 


Deadline for papers submission	July 12, 2009 

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MOTIVATION

Over the past three decades, software engineers have derived a progressively
better understanding about the characteristics of complexity in software.
Software architectures that contain many dynamically interacting components,
each with their own thread of control, and engaging in complex coordination
protocols, are typically orders of magnitude more complex to correctly and
efficiently engineer than those that simply compute a function of some input
through a single thread of control, or through a limited set of strictly
synchronized threads of control. 

Such complexity brought new challenges for software engineering researchers
and practitioners and the agent and multi-agent technologies from Artificial
Intelligence and Distributed Artificial Intelligence came up as a promising
answer to them. In fact, agents offer higher level abstractions and
mechanisms which address issues such as knowledge representation and
reasoning, communication, coordination, cooperation among heterogeneous and
autonomous parties, perception, commitments, goals, beliefs, intentions,
etc. 

Software agents and multi-agent systems have grown into what is now one of
the most active areas of research and development activity in computing
generally. Agent-orientation has emerged as an interesting paradigm to deal
with real world abstraction and organization representation. There are many
reasons for the current intensity of interest, but certainly one of the most
important is that the concept of an agent as an autonomous system, capable
of interacting with other agents in order to satisfy its design objectives,
is a natural one for software designers. 

Thus software engineering techniques should be created and successfully used
to clearly show that the agent technology can become a foundation to build
distributed software systems. In this context, the goal of SEAS 2009 is to
bring together researchers and practitioners, involved in the development of
techniques and applications of agent and multi-agent systems, to discuss the
impacts of the agent paradigm in the development of this new brand of
software systems.

SEAS was recently qualifies in Qualis as B5.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

SEAS invites the research community to submit papers in all aspects of
software engineering for agent-oriented systems including the following, but
not limited to:

. Agent-oriented reuse approaches (frameworks, architecture, product lines,
...)
. Service-oriented computing to MAS
. Requirement engineering to MAS
. MDA (Model Driven Architecture) applied to SMA
. Comparative studies between agents and other paradigms
. Empirical and experimental studies in MAS
. Tools and environments to develop MAS
. Governance in MAS
. Methods to analyze and design MAS
. Agent-oriented software metrics
. Ontologies to MAS
. Security and privacy in MAS
. Quality of agent-oriented software
. MAS Testing 
. Fault tolerance and exception handler in MAS
. Validation and verification of agent-oriented software
. Self-* for MAS (self-adaptation, self-organization, self-testing, ...)

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IMPORTANT DATES

* July 12, 2006 - Deadline for papers submission 
* August 09, 2006 - Notification about submissions 
* August 23, 2006 - Camera ready copy 
 
* October 06, 2006	SEAS Workshop 

Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM (Apia Time) on the dates indicated.

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FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS

The authors are invited to submit technical, original papers that should not
have been published or submitted to other workshops, conferences, journals
or book chapters. Papers should present novel ideas on the agent-oriented
software engineering, criticism of existing work, or description of case
studies and experiments which states the applicability of software
engineering techniques on agent-oriented systems. 

Technical papers should be submitted according to the SBC format. The papers
must not exceed 12 A4 pages. Submitted papers must be in Portable Document
Format (PDF) or PostScript (PS) format and be written in Portuguese or
English. More details about the submission process will be stated in the
workshop website.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted
papers will be published informally at the workshop page and the organizing
committee is planning to publish it by using the PUC-Rio editorial.
Furthermore, the publication of a paper is subject to the registration of at
least one of its authors to present it in the workshop.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Viviane Torres da Silva Silva (UFF, Brazil)
Anarosa Brandão (USP, Brazil)
Marcelo Blois (PUCRS, Brazil)
Carlos Lucena (PUC-Rio, Brazil)

contact: Viviane Torres da Silva (viviane at ic.uff.br)