[agents] PROMAS 2010 [Deadline Extension: 9/2/2010]

[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:              9 February,     2010 (EXTENDED)
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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Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino, Italy)
Juan Botia Blaya (University of Murcia, Spain)
Olivier Boissier (Ecole des Mines de St Etienne, France)
Lars Braubach (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Louise Dennis (University of Liverpool, UK)
Ian Dickinson (Epimorphics Ltd, UK)
Mauro Dragone (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Bernd Farwer (Durham University, UK)
Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool, UK)
Jorge Gomez-Sanz (Universidad Computense Madrid, Spain)
Vladimir Gorodetsky (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
James Harland (RMIT, Australia)
Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Benjamin Hirsch (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Jomi Hubner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil)
Joao Leite (University Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Viviana Mascardi (Genova University, Italy)
John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Jorg Muller (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Frederic Peschanski (LIP6, France)
Michele Piunti (CNR, Italy)
Agostino Poggi (Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy)
Alexander Pokahr (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Alessandro Ricci (University of Bologna, Italy)
Birna van Riemsdijk (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Sebastian Sardina (RMIT University, Australia)
Ichiro Satoh (NII, Japan)
Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University, USA)
Kostas Stathis (City University London, UK)
Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna, Italy)
Leon van der Torre (University of Luxemborg, Luxemborg)
Cao-Son Tran (New Mexico State University, USA)
Gerhard Weiss (Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria)
Wayne Wobke (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Neil Yorke-Smith (SRI, USA)
Yingqian Zhang (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

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