[agents] Preliminary CFP: International Workshop on PROgramming Multi-Agent Systems (PROMAS 2010)

[Rem Collier]

                                                    Call for Papers

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                                   Eighth international Workshop on

                     Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS'10)

                                  <http://agents.felk.cvut.cz/promas2010/>

 

                   ProMAS'10 is a satellite workshop at AAMAS 2010

                                    Toronto, Canada, 10-14 May 2010

                                  <http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/>

 

 

Even though the contributions of the multi-agent systems (MAS) community can
make a significant impact in the development of open distributed systems,
the techniques resulting from such contributions will only be widely adopted
when suitable programming languages and tools are available. Furthermore,
such languages and tools must incorporate those techniques in a principled
but practical way, so as to support the ever more complex task of
professional programmers, in particular when the systems have to operate in
dynamic environments.

 

The ProMAS workshop series aims to address the practical programming issues
related to developing and deploying multi-agent systems. In particular,
ProMAS aims to address how multi-agent systems designs or specifications can
be effectively implemented. In its previous editions, ProMAS constituted an
invaluable occasion bringing together leading researchers from both academia
and industry to discuss issues on the design of programming languages and
tools for multi-agent systems. In particular, the workshop promotes the
discussion and exchange of ideas concerning the techniques, concepts,
requirements, and principles that are important for multi-agent programming
technology.

 

We encourage the submission of proposals for programming languages and tools
that provide specific programming constructs to facilitate the
implementation of the essential concepts used in multi-agent system analysis
and specifications (e.g., mental attitudes, distribution, and social
interaction). We also welcome submissions describing significant multi-agent
applications, as well as agent programming tools that allow the integration
of agents with legacy systems.

 

Further, we are particularly interested in approaches or applications that
show clearly the added-value of multi-agent programming, and explain why and
how this technology should be adopted by designers and programmers both in
academia and industry.

 

Specific topics for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

 

- Programming Languages for multi-agent systems

- Programming models and abstractions for multi-agent systems

- Extensions of traditional languages for multi-agent programming

- Theoretical and practical aspects of multi-agent programming

- Computational complexity of MAS

- Semantics for multi-agent programming languages

- High-level executable multi-agent specification languages

- Algorithms, techniques, or protocols for multi-agent issues

  (e.g., coordination, cooperation, negotiation)

- Agent communication issues in multi-agent programming

- Implementation of social and organisational aspects of MAS

- Formal methods for specification and verification of MAS

- Verification tools for implementations of MAS

- Agent development tools and platforms

- Generic tools and infrastructures for multi-agent programming

- Interoperability and standards for MAS

- Programming mobile agents

- Safety and security for mobile MAS deployment

- Fault tolerance and load balancing for mobile MAS

- Application areas for multi-agent programming languages

- Applications using legacy systems

- Programming MAS for Grid-based applications

- Programming MAS for the Semantic Web

- Deployed (industrial-strength) MAS

- Benchmarks and testbeds for comparing MAS languages and tools

- Integration of agent and mainstream technology

 

Important Dates:

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Paper submission deadline:              2 February,     2010

Notifications of acceptance/rejection:  2 March,        2010

Camera-ready copies due:                19 March,       2010

Workshop Date:                          10th/11th May,  2010 (TBA)

 

 

Submission Details:

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Authors should submit their papers via a conference management system.
Papers should be formatted using Springer LNCS style

(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and have a maximum of 15
pages.

 

Accepted papers will be published as a technical report and distributed
among participants during the workshop. As was the case for previous
editions of the ProMAS workshop, we are planning to publish extended
versions of selected papers as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series by Springer-Verlag.

 

 

Programme Committee:

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[** To be announced **]

 

Organising Committee:

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- Dr. Rem Collier (University College Dublin, Ireland)

- Dr. Peter Novak (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)

- Prof. Jurgen Dix (T.U. Clausthal, Germany)

 

Steering Committee:

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- Dr. Rafael Heitor Bordini, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

- Dr. Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

- Prof. Jurgen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

- Prof. Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, University of Paris VI, France