[agents] CfP: AGERE @ SPLASH 2011

[Rafael H Bordini]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
AGERE! @ SPLASH  - International ACM SPLASH 2011 Workshop on Programming 
Systems, Languages, and Applications based on Actors, Agents, and 
Decentralized Control

Important Dates:

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

  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

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workshop organization

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 Jurgen 
Dix, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany Koen Hindriks, Delft 
University of Technology, The Netherlands Tom Holvoet, Dept. Computer 
Science K.U.Leuven, Belgium Jomi Hubner, Federal University of Santa 
Catarina, Brazil Joao 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 ...