[agents] CFP MAS&S 2011

[Jorge J. Gomez Sanz]

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The 5th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S 2011)

http://www.mass.fedcsis.org/

MAS&S 2011 is part of JAWS 2011 (Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy) and will be jointly held
with FedCSIS - The Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

Sept. 19-21, 2011 Szczecin, Poland

IMPORTANT DATES
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*** DEADLINE for submission of regular papers: May 31, 2011 ***

* Paper Submissions: May 31, 2011
* Authors Notifications: June 30, 2011
* Final Submissions and Registrations: July 31, 2011
* The Conference Dates: September 19 - 21, 2011

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OBJECTIVES AND TOPICS:
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Multi-agent systems (MASs) provide powerful models for representing both real-world systems and
applications with an appropriate degree of complexity and dynamics. Several research and industrial
experiences have already shown that the use of MASs offers advantages in a wide range of application
domains (e.g. financial, economic, social, logistic, chemical, engineering). When MASs represent
software applications to be effectively delivered, they need to be validated and evaluated before
their deployment and execution, thus methodologies that support validation and evaluation through
simulation of the MAS under development are highly required. In other emerging areas (e.g. ACE,
ACF), MASs are designed for representing systems at different levels of complexity through the use
of autonomous, goal-driven and interacting entities organized into societies which exhibit emergent
properties The agent-based model of a system can then be executed to simulate the behavior of the
complete system so that knowledge of the behaviors of the entities (micro-level) produce an
understanding of the overall outcome at the system-level (macro-level). In both cases (MASs as
software applications and MASs as models for the analysis of complex systems), simulation plays a
crucial role that needs to be further investigated.

MAS&S'11 aims at providing a forum for discussing recent advances in Engineering Complex Systems by
exploiting Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation. In particular, the areas of interest are the
following (although this list should not be considered as exclusive):

* Agent-based simulation techniques and methodologies
* Discrete-event simulation of Multi-Agent Systems
* Simulation as validation tool for the development process of MAS
* Agent-oriented methodologies incorporating simulation tools
* MAS simulation driven by formal models
* MAS simulation toolkits and frameworks
* Testing vs. simulation of MAS
* Industrial case studies based on MAS and simulation/testing
* Agent-based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS)
* Agent Computational Economics (ACE)
* Agent Computational Finance (ACF)
* Agent-based simulation of networked systems
* Scalability in agent-based simulation
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SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
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The working language of the conference is English. The total length of a paper should not exceed 8
pages (IEEE style). IEEE style templates are available here: http://fedcsis.org/?q=node/22. Authors
should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file). Papers will be refereed and accepted
on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.


PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
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Accepted and Presented paper will be published in the Conference Proceedings and included in the
IEEE Xplore® database and indexed in the DBLP.
Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS events.
Selected papers presented at the workshop will be invited to a special issue on “Engineering Complex
Systems through Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation” of a premier International Journal which is
under selection; the chosen journal will be communicated on this Workshop Web Site.


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
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* Carole Bernon, Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT (France), carole.bernon at irit.fr
* Giancarlo Fortino, Università della Calabria (Italy), g.fortino at unical.it
* Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), jjgomez at sip.ucm.es


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

     * Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Université Paul Sabatier, France
     * Carol Bernon, Université Paul Sabatier, France
     * Juan Antonio Botía Blaya, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
     * Krzysztof Cetnarowicz, AGH - University of Science and Technology of Krakow, Poland
     * Irenieusz Czarnowski, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
     * Paul Davidson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
     * Alfredo Garro, Università della Calabria (Italy)
     * Paolo Giorgini, Università di Trento, Italy
     * Samer Hassan, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
     * Vincent Hilaire, Université de Belfort-Montbéliard, France
     * Piotr Jedrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
     * Franziska Klügl, Örebro Universitet, Sweden
     * Adolfo López-Paredes, University of Valladolid, Spain
     * Ambra Molesini, Università di Bologna, Italy
     * Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
     * Muaz Niazi, COMSATS Institute of IT, Islamabad, Pakistan
     * Michael J. North, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
     * Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy
     * Paolo Petta, OFAI, Austria
     * Gauthier Picard, ENSM, Saint-Etienne, France
     * Luca Sabatucci, ITC-irst, FBK, Italy
     * Valeria Seidita, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
     * Pietro Terna, Università di Torino, Italy
     * Erwan Tranvouez, LSIS, France
     * Giuseppe Vizzari, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy


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Further Information: mailto: g.fortino at unical.it
Workshop website: MAS&S 2011: http://www.mass.fedcsis.org/
Conference website: FedCSIS 2011: http://fedcsis.org/?q=node/12
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