[agents] SOc-MAS 2011 call-for-Papers

[Prof. Hong Zhu]

SOC-MAS 2011 Call-For-Papers

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2011 International Workshop on
Service-Oriented Computing and Multi-Agent Systems (SOC-MAS'11)
Mannheim, Germany, 5-7 December 2011
http://siwn.org.uk/cods11/soc-mas11.htm

At the 5th International Conference on Complex Distributed Systems 
(CODS'2011)
http://siwn.org.uk/cods11/
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Important Dates
* 1 July 2011: Deadline of submission
* 5 Aug. 2011: Notification of acceptance
* 2 Sept. 2011: Camera-Ready Version due
* 5-7 Dec. 2011: Workshop

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SUBMISSION WEBSITE:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=socmas11
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PC Chair
Professor Dr Hong Zhu
Oxford Brookes University, UK
Email: hzhu at brookes.ac.uk
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INTRODUCTION

Service-Oriented Computing is becoming one of the most important mainstream 
paradigms for the engineering of large scale complex open systems. It is 
widely recognized that when combined with multi-agent systems (MAS) 
principles, techniques and methodologies, the full potentials of 
service-oriented computing will be further released. There are also many 
common research issues in these two closely related research areas. However, 
over the years solutions have been developed separately in different 
communities.
SOC-MAS'11 provides a premier forum for researchers and engineers alike in 
both communities to present state-of-the-art research and development 
progresses in all areas related to architectures, design, implementation, 
applications and evaluation of service-oriented computing and multi-agent 
systems with emphasis on the interplay between the two. It aims at fostering 
the collaborations across the boundary.

TOPICS

Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to) the followings.
* Development methodologies:
Agent/ Service oriented software engineering principles, methods techniques 
and processes, including requirements analysis and specification, modelling, 
design, testing, quality assurance, reliability and adaptability, and tools, 
etc.
* Enabling techniques:
Resource allocation, negotiation, quality of services, and workflow 
management in service-oriented/agent-oriented computing, especially for 
utility computing, cloud computing, etc.
* Infrastructures and architectures:
The frameworks, platforms and architectures for agent-oriented/service 
oriented computing;
* Fundamental issues:
Multi-agent collaboration and interactions; service description, discovery, 
composition, orchestration and choreography; Service Level Agreements (SLA), 
etc.
* Languages:
Service-oriented and agent-oriented programming languages, environments and 
platforms; service and agent communication languages; ontology generation, 
management, semantic services.
* Applications:
The applications of agent technology and service-oriented computing in 
E-Business, E-collaboration management, e-Science, Healthcare services, 
Mobile and ubiquitous computing

SUBMISSION

CODS'2011 and its workshops (including SOC-MAS 2011) only accept manuscripts 
of original contributions. A manuscript submitted to the workshop should 
have neither been published nor under consideration for publication 
elsewhere. All manuscripts submitted will go through peer reviews by 3-4 
members of the International Program Committees of the workshop, based on 
which the acceptance decision will be made. To avoid confusion, please do 
not duplicate submissions to the conference and the workshop at the same 
time.
To submit a manuscript, please upload files in Microsoft WORD or PDF format 
by the online submission to the website.
All submissions should be prepared according to the Instructions for Authors 
of the proceedings publisher Foresight Academy of Technology Press. Sample 
Word Doc and Latex file of Camera-Ready Versions (CRV) are available at
http://fatech.org.uk/press/ita.htm.
At the stage of submission, there are no particular restrictions on the 
length of manuscripts (so long as it's within maximum 18 pages). However, 
there will be page limits for CRVs depending on the categories to which 
papers are accepted (and over-length pages may be subject to page charges).

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers of the workshop will be included in the electronic 
proceedings and distributed at the conference and workshop. Best quality 
papers of the conferences will also be published in the journal 
International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications (ITSSA) (ISSN 
1751-1461).

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Prof. Hong Zhu
Chair of Applied Formal Methods Group
Department of Computing and Electronics
School of Technology
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford OX33 1HX, UK
Tel: +44 1865 484580
Fax: +44 1865 484545
Email: hzhu at brookes.ac.uk
URL: http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/HongZhu/
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