[agents] CFP COREMAS at PAAMS 2012 (extended deadline 20/11/11)

[Emmanuel Adam]

Apologies for multiple copies

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*COREMAS*

Special session on :
"COoperative and RE-configurable MultiAgent System for Industrial  
Environments"

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Located at PAAMS'2012 : the 10th International Conference on Practical
Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Location : University of Salamanca (Spain)
Date : 28-30th March, 2012, http://www.paams.net

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OBJECTIVES

Markets are currently imposing very strong requirements, demanding  
customized products with shorter delivery times and shorter   
life-cycles, forcing companies to adapt their processes by having  
flexible, reconfigurable production plants, which leads to the  
challenge of having systems that exhibit better re-configurability,  
robustness and responsiveness.

The agent technology is a recognize and promising approach to  address  
this current challenge, introducing an alternative way to  design  
control systems based on the decentralization of control functions  
over distributed autonomous and cooperative entities; the overall  
control system being achieved by cooperation among these entities.

This session is seeking contributions providing requirements,  
challenges, methods, tools, techniques, experiences, demonstrations  
and roadmaps that will help the industry assess the application of  
cooperative agent technology in manufacturing, logistics and services  
domains.

Particular attention may be given to the industrial applications of  
such systems.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

We seek contributions providing requirements, challenges, methods,  
tools, techniques, experiences, demonstrations and roadmaps that will  
help the industry assess the application of cooperative agent  
technology in manufacturing, logistics and services domains.

Specifically, the special session topics include, but are not limited to:
* fault-recovery in multi-agent systems,
* models of cooperation and coordination for autonomous agents,
* predicting and controlling emergence of behavior in multi-agent systems,
* self-adaptation of roles and/or services in multi-agent systems,
* delegation tasks, reconfiguration tasks in multi-agent systems,
* case studies that shows self-adaptation or self-organization in  
multi-agent systems,
* models of self-management for multi-agent systems,
* models and meta-models of self-organizing multi-agent systems,
* Power and Energy Systems (Smart Grids).


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DEADLINES

Submission date *20th* November, 2011
Notification date  16th December, 2011
Paper ready date 09th January, 2012
Conference dates 28-30 March 2012


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- Submitting Papers

All papers must be formatted according to the Advances in Intelligent  
and Soft Computing Series Springer template, with a maximum length of:  
8 pages in length, including figures and references for the PAAMS 2012  
Special Sessions.

The template can be downloaded here :  
http://www.springer.com/series/4240?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCounter=156163.
All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format)  
using the PAAMS 2012 conference management system.

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-  Review Process

All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each  
paper will be refereed by at least two experts in the field based on  
relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.


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-  Publication

Accepted papers will be included in a volume of the PAAMS 2012  
Proceedings, published in the Advances in Intelligent and  
Soft-Computing series of Springer.
At least one of the authors per paper will be required to register and  
attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the  
paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be  
published by Springer Verlag.


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- Grants/Awards

Please note that the BISITE research group (http://bisite.usal.es) of  
the University of Salamanca, organiser of PAAMS 2012, offers 50  
grants/awards to facilitate the attendance to doctoral and young  
doctors both to the event itself (including Workshops and Special  
Sessions) and to the parallel collocated events.

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Co-organizers:
Paulo Leïtao
Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
Quinta Sta Apolónia, Apartado 1134
5301-857 Bragança  - Portugal
Email: pleitao at ipb.pt
URL: http://www.ipb.pt/~pleitao

Emmanuel Adam
LAMIH - FRE CNRS 3304
University of Valenciennes
F-59313 Valenciennes cedex 9 - FRANCE
Email: emmanuel.adam at univ-valenciennes.fr
http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/LAMIH/?perso=adam_emmanuel

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