[agents] CfP: AGERE! @ SPLASH2011

[Rafael H Bordini]

[apologies for multiple postings]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

AGERE!

Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications based on
Agents, Actors, and Decentralized Control

(http://agere2011.apice.unibo.it)

International Workshop to be held at SPLASH 2011, Portland, USA
(http://splashcon.org/2011/)


IMPORTANT DATES:

Title and Abstract Submission: Friday, 5 August 2011
Paper Submission: Friday, 12 August 2011
Demo submission: Friday, 9 September 2011
Workshop: Monday, 24 October 2011


ABSTRACT

The fundamental turn of software into concurrency and distribution is 
not only a matter of performance, but also of design and abstraction, 
calling for programming paradigms that would allow more naturally than 
the current ones to think, design, develop, execute, debug and profile 
programs exhibiting different degrees of concurrency, reactiveness, 
autonomy, decentralization of control, distribution. This workshop aims 
at exploring programming approaches explicitly providing a level of 
abstraction that promotes a decentralized mindset in solving problems 
and programming systems. To this end, the abstractions of agents and 
actors (and systems of agents and actors) are taken as a natural 
reference: the objective of the workshop is then to foster the research 
in all aspects of agent-oriented programming and actor-oriented 
programming as evolution of mainstream paradigms (such as OOP), 
including the theory and the practice of design and programming, 
bringing together researchers working on the models, languages and 
technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and 
applications.

Read more at: http://agere2011.apice.unibo.it

Join the group: https://groups.google.com/group/agere-at-splash to 
contribute to ongoing discussions about the AGERE! topics and workshop 
organization.
("Starting the workshop Now!" initiative)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Rafael H. Bordini, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
(in alphabetic order, to be completed)

Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Joe Armstrong,  SICS / Ericsson, Sweden
Olivier Boissier, LSTI ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Rafael Bordini, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Jean-Pierre Briot, LIP6, Paris 6, France
Rem Collier, UCL, Dublin
Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Jürgen Dix, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany
Koen Hindriks, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jomi Hübner, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
João Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Jamali Nadeem, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Ravi Pandya, Microsoft
Jens Palsberg, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
Birna van Riemsdijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein Technologies
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni,  LIP6 - University Pierre and Marie Curie
Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
Akinori Yonezawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
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