[agents] Fwd: CfP: AGERE! @ SPLASH2011 - UPDATES

[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<http://agere2011.apice.unibo.it/>)

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


IMPORTANT DATES **UPDATED**:

Papers can now be submitted in two different moments:

Early Submissions

  Paper Submission: Friday, 19 August 2011
  Notification: Monday, 19 September 2011
  Early SPLASH registration: Friday, 23 September 2011
  Final version: Monday, 10 October 2011

  This submission time is for whom would like to have the time to apply 
for the early
  SPLASH registration (23 Sept) if the paper is accepted.

Late Submissions

  Paper Submission: Friday, 9 September 2011
  Notification: Monday, 3 October 2011
  Final version: Monday, 10 October 2011

Demo

  Demo submission: Friday, 9 September 2011
  Demo notification: Monday, 19 September 2011

Workshop date: 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<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)