[agents] PRIMA 2009 - Call for Participation

[Valentin Robu]

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Call for Participation
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The 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent
Systems (PRIMA2009)

Dec. 12 - 16, 2009, Nagoya, Japan.
http://www.prima2009.org/

Dec 12 (Sat) AgentSchool @ Nagoya Institute of Technology.
Dec 13 (Sun) Tutorials & Workshops @ Nagoya Institute of Technology.
Dec 14-16 (Mon-Wed) Main Conference @ Nagoya Congress Center.

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REGISTRATION:
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See http://www.prima2009.org/ .
The online registration will be closed at December 1st, 2009.


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PRIMA
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PRIMA is the leading scientific conference for research on intelligent
agent systems and multi-agent systems, attracting high quality,
state-of-the-art research from all over the world. The conference
endeavors to bring together researchers, developers, and academic and
industry leaders, active and interested in agents and multi-agent systems,
their practices and related areas. The conference is specifically focused
on becoming the premier forum for prototype and deployed agent systems.
The conference offers an exceptional opportunity for presentation of
original work, technological advances, practical problems and concerns of
the research community.

PRIMA2009 will build on the success of its predecessor workshops and
conferences held in Hanoi, Bangkok, Guilin, Kuala Lumpur, Auckland, Seoul,
Tokyo, Taipei, Melbourne, Kyoto, and Singapore. Since 2007, due to the
need for an additional high-quality forum for international researchers
and practitioners to meet and share their work, the meeting has been
expanded from a workshop to a full-fledged conference.

Agent computing and technology is an exciting, emerging paradigm expected
to play a key role in many society-changing practices from disaster
response to manufacturing to agriculture. Agent and multi-agent
researchers are focused on building working systems that bring together a
broad range of technical areas from market theory to software engineering
to user interfaces. Agent systems are expected to operate in real-world
environments, with all the challenges complex environments present. PRIMA
particularly encourages reports on development of prototype and deployed
agent and multiagent systems and experiments that demonstrate the
capability of agents to handle real-world challenges.

The technical program includes 23 full papers, 4 industrial papers, 6
multimedia papers,  18 posters accepted from 101 submissions.  There will
be five technical sessions focused on Negotiation & Market, Community &
Collaboration, Emotion & Interaction, Resource Allocation, Simulation,
Trust and Software Engineering.  The papers cover an exciting range of
practical aspects of MAS and represent state of the art work from around
the world.  Six additional papers will be presented in a multi-media
format to show the practical side of the work in the best light.  A
separate industrial session will showcase five real-world MAS
applications.

The conference includes main technical sessions, multimedia sessions,
industrial sessions, interactive poster sessions, demonstration sessions,
expert panel discussions, two invited talks, as well as a wide range of
advanced workshops and tutorials, and the Agent school.


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Invited Talks
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Directing Digital Crowds
Mark Thielen,  CG supervisor, Radium Inc.

Mark Thielen is the CG supervisor at Radium. He has a character animation
background with over 10 years of CG experience. His experience ranges from
film and television to commercials. He has been using Massive Software for
6 years. He was the Massive supervisor for The Ant Bully, Blades of Glory,
The Leatherheads and numerous commercials.


Computational Advertising: A Multi-Agent Systems Approach
Joaquin A. Delgado, PhD, Senior Principal Architect, Display Advertising,
Yahoo! Inc.

Joaquin A. Delgado is currently Sr. Principal Architect within the Display
Advertising group at Yahoo! Inc. He currently leads the effort on the
next-generation ad serving and unified marketplace. Previously, he was CTO
and co-founder of Lending Club, an online lending community. Prior to
joining Lending Club, he was the CTO and co-founder of TripleHop
Technologies, an enterprise search company, until the company got acquired
by Oracle in 2005 and then became a prominent member of Oracle's software
architecture team. Joaquin is also a renowned expert in information
filtering and recommender systems,and holds a Ph.D in computer science and
artificial intelligence from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan.



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Program
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The full finalized program will be available from the website soon.

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Agent School (Dec 12 at Nagoya Institute of Technology)
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- Introduction to Artificial Market Reearch
Kiyoshi IZUMI, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology (AIST), JAPAN
- Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
Sherief ABDALLAH, Informatics Institute at the British University in
Dubai, UAE
- Game Theory
Makoto YOKOO, Kyushu University, JAPAN
- Programming Rational Agents
Koen HINDRIKS, Delft University of Technology, NETHERLANDS
- Advanced Software Design Techniques for Agent Systems
Serge STINCKWICH, Universite de Caen Basse Normandie, FRANCE

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Tutorials  (Dec 13 at Nagoya Institute of Technology)
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T1: Experiments and Simulation of Market with U-Mart System
by Hiroshi Sato (National Defense Academy of Japan) and Yoshihito Akimoto
(Osaka Prefecture University)
T2: Game-theory/Mechanism Design/Auctions in Multi-agent Systems by Makoto
Yokoo (Kyushu University)
T3: Principles of Practice in Profiling: An Immunity-based System by
Yoshiteru Ishida, Koji Harada (Toyohashi University of Technology),
Takeshi Okamoto (Kanagawa Institute of Technology) and Yuji Watanabe
(Nagoya City University)

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Workshops  (Dec 13 at Nagoya Institute of Technology)
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W1: Agent-based Collaboration, Coordination and Decision Support (ACCDS)
W2: Joint Workshop on Agent Technology for Disaster Management(ATDM) &
Intelligent Agents in Sensor Networks and Sensor Web(IASNW)
W3: Joint workshop on Multi-Agent Simulation in Finance and Economics
(MASFE) & Applied Agent S ==================
Banquet & Excursion (supported by JAWS)
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Tokugawaen & Japanese Garden
http://www.tokugawaen.city.nagoya.jp/english/index.html

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Organization
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General Chairs
Jung-Jin Yang (Catholic Univ. of Korea, Korea)
Makoto Yokoo (Kyushu Univ., Japan)

Program Chairs
Takayuki Ito (Nagoya Institute of Technology/Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Japan/US)
Zhi JIN (Peking University, China)
Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University, US)

Industry Track Program Chairs
Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka University, Japan)
Minjie Zhang (University of Wollongong, Australia)

Publicity Cochairs
Shigeo Matsubara (Kyoto University, Japan)
Tony Bastin Roy Savarimuthu (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Sponsorship Chairs
Nirmit V Desai (IBM, India)
Akihiko Ohsuga (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

Tutorial / Interactive session Chair
Tsunenori Mine (Kyushu University, Japan)
Buy The Duy (Vietnam National University, Vietnam)

Workshop Chair
Quan Bai (CSIRO, Australia)
Naoki Fukuta (Shizuoka Univ., Japan)

Financial Chair
Tokuro Matsuo (Yamagata Univ., Japan)
Valentin Robu (Southampton University, England)

Publications Chair
Takahiro Uchiya (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Gita Sukthankar (University of Central Florida, US)

Agent School & Demonstration Session Chair
Hiromitsu Hattori (Kyoto University, Japan)
Jane Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Local Arrangement Chair
Hirofumi Yamaki (Nagoya University, Japan)
Shohey Kato (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Atsuko Muto (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)

Agent Event Chair: (RobuCup)
Itsuki Noda (AIST, Japan)
Xiaoping Chen, (USTC, China)
Oliver Obst, (CSIRO, Australia)

Advisory committee members
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Hideyuki Nakashima (Future University of Hakodate, Japan)
Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Muninder P. Singh (North Carolina State University, US)
Alexis Drogoul (University of Paris 6, France)
Von Won Soo (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
R. Sadananda (University of New South Wales, Australia)

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Program Committee
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Lotzi Boloni (University Florida, US)
Stephane Bressan (The National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Brahim Chaib-draa (Laval University, Canada)
Nilanjan Chakraborty (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), US)
Shih-Fen Cheng (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University, Korea)
Joongmin Choi (Hanyang University, Korea)
Joerg Denzinger (University of Calgary, Canada)
Frank Dignum (University of Utrech, The Nethelands)
Alexis Drogoul (IRD/UPMC, Vietnam)
Shaheen Fatima (Loughborough University, UK)
Aditya Ghose (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Joe Giampapa (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), US)
Robin Glinton (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), US)
Guido Governatori (NICTA, Australia)
Koen Hindriks (Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands)
Atsuhi Iwasaki (Kyushu University, Japan)
Kiyoshi Izumi (AIST, Japan)
Wenping Jiao (Peking University, China)
Catholijn Jonker (Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands)
Kee-Eung Kim (KAIST, Korea)
Minkoo Kim (Ajou University, Korea)
Yasuhiko Kitamura (Kwansei University, Japan)
Jaeho Lee (University of Seoul, Korea)
Ho-fung Leung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hongkong)
Alan Liu (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
Chao-Lin Liu (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Jyi-shane Liu (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Lin Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)
Graham Low (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Xudong Luo (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Wenji Mao (Chinese Academy of Science, China)
Xinjun Mao (National Defense University of Technology, China)
Ivan Marsa-Maestre (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)
Chunyan Miao Nanayang (Technological University, Singapore)
Shivashankar B. Nair (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
Vineet Padmanabhan (University of Hyderabad, India)
Jean Oh (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), US)
Mehmet Orgun (Macquarie University, Australia)
Praveen Paruchuri (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), US)
Antonino Rotolo (University of Bologna, Italy)
David Sarne (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Abdul Sattar (Griffith University, Australia)
Kiam-Tian SEOW (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Von-Wun Soo (National Tsinghua University, Taiwan)
Leon Sterling (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Toshiharu Sugawara (Waseda University, Japan)
Takao Terano (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Pradeep Varakantham (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Zili Zhang (Southwest University, China)
Roie Zivan (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), US)