[agents] PRIMA 2010: Call for Workshop Proposals

[Hoa Dam]

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PRIMA 2010: The 13th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems
[Formerly Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents]

www.prima2010.org<http://www.prima2010.org>

http://www.prima2010.org/workshops/
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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The Program Committees of the 13th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems invite proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be held before the Conference, November 14, 2010 at Kolkata, India. The main goal of the PRIMA2010 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction and comparison of approaches, methods and ideas related to specific topics (both theoretical and applied) in the general areas related to intelligent agent systems and multi-agent systems. The workshops will provide a forum for participants to introduce their research work and discuss issues on topics of current interest. Proposals that promote exploration of new research areas and application fields of agent systems and multi-agent systems are highly welcome.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and range of the conference. The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the workshops, and are expected to encourage authors to attend the main conference. We expect the workshop organizers to actively engage the audience and help them gain a deeper understanding of the issues. We also encourage the workshops to foster discussion and exchange of ideas by including mechanisms other than traditional paper presentations.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in intelligent agent systems and multi-agent systems. The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these two fields.

Suggested workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

* Agent-based system development:*
Agent-oriented software engineering
Agent development environments
Agent languages
Case studies and implemented systems

* WWW and Semantic Web Agents:*
Web-based agents
Ontology agents
Semantic Web agents
Internet Bots
Human Agent Interaction

* Agent-based simulations:*
Emergent behavior
Simulation-specific issues
Learning (single and multi-agent)
Computational architectures for learning Evolution, adaptation

* Agent Reasoning:*
Reasoning (single and multi-agent)
Planning (single and multi-agent)
Cognitive models
Ontological reasoning

* Interface Agents:*
Practices of Interface Agents
Virtual Agents
Collaborative Interface Agents
Autonomous Interface Agents

* Agent societies and social networks:*
Artificial social systems
Trust and reputation
Social and organizational structure
Privacy, safety and security
Ethical and legal issues

* Agent communication:*
Communication languages
Communication protocols
Agent commitments
Network structures and analysis

* Agent Cooperation and Negotiation:*
Teamwork
Cooperation
Coalition formation
Coordination
Distributed problem solving
Formal models for modeling other agents and self
Argumentation
Negotiation and Bargaining
Persuasion

* Agent Systems:*
Software agents
Mobile agents
Agent-Based Assistants
Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
Socially Situated Planning Software and Pervasive Agents

* Real-world Robotics:*
Coordination in multi-robot systems
Modeling and analysis of multi-robot systems
Tools that are relevant for multi-robot studies
Applications of multi-robot systems to real-world problems

* Agents in Health Care:*
Multi-agent systems for patient monitoring and diagnosis
Agent-based execution of clinical guidelines
Successful applications of agent systems in health care
Multi-agent systems that improve medical training or education.
Patient-centered agent-based applications.
Medical agent-based decision support systems.

* Agents and Service Science:*
Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems.
Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and Semantic Web development
Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes
Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering
Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography
Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery
Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements
Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems
Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos and lessons learned
Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution
Ontology generation, reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents

* Other Related Areas:*
Collective intelligence
P2P, Grid computing
Financial markets and algorithm trades
Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence
Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
Perceptive Animated Interfaces
Scalability
Tools and Standards
Ubiquitous Software Services
Virtual Humans


WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION

Workshop proposals should include the following elements:
- Title of the workshop.
- The organizers name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address.
- A description of the topic of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words).
- Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day).
- A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of agent systems and multi-agent systems.
- A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers.
- An estimate of the expected number of participants.
- Any specific requirements other than a room and data projector
- A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop. Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when and where it has been offered in the past (i.e., with PRIMA or another conference), organizers names and affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered attendees, and follow-up publications, if any (e.g., journal special issue).
- A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with respect to organizing an workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing committee, if any.

After the acceptance of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should:
- Create a Call for papers/participation for the workshop
- Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will be
  published on the Conference Web site
- Create a Board of Reviewers (Program Committee)
- Review and select papers
- Schedule the workshop activities

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.

The above described workshop proposals must be submitted via e-mail to both hoa at uow.edu.au<mailto:hoa at uow.edu.au> and tru at cse.hcmut.edu.vn<mailto:tru at cse.hcmut.edu.vn>

We look forward to your support in making PRIMA 2010 workshops an exciting event.

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop proposal submission due: June 1, 2010
Notification to workshop proposers: June 15, 2010
Each Workshop Organizer Sends out Call for Workshops Papers: June 17, 2010
Due date for full workshop papers submission: August 19, 2010
Workshop paper acceptance notification: September 12, 2010
Camera-ready papers due: September 30, 2010
Early registration deadline: September 15, 2010
Registration deadline: November 1, 2010
Workshop date: November 14, 2010

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Hoa Khanh Dam
University of Wollongong, Australia
Email: hoa at uow.edu.au<mailto:hoa at uow.edu.au>

Tru Hoang Cao
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam
Email: tru at cse.hcmut.edu.vn<mailto:tru at cse.hcmut.edu.vn>


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Hoa Khanh Dam
Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Wollongong
Email: Hoa at uow.edu.au<mailto:Hoa at uow.edu.au>
Phone: (+61 2) 4221 4875
Web:   http://www.uow.edu.au/~hoa