[agents] [Deadline extended to 2/6/2012] CFP Agent-Directed Simulation, March 26-29, 2012, Orlando, FL, USA

[Yu Zhang]

[Note that the deadline has been extended to 2/6/2012]

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CALL FOR PAPERS and POSTERS
Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium (ADS'12)
Florida Hotel and Conference Center, Orlando, FL, USA
March 26-29, 2012

http://www.scs.org/springsim/2012?q=node/205
Manuscript Submission: February 6, 2012.

Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation
International (SCS).
Co-located with the 2012 SISO Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW)
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As part of the 2012 Spring Simulation Multi-conference (SpringSim'12)
   http://www.scs.org/springsim/2012

the 2012 Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium is a premier platform to
explore all three aspects of the synergy of simulation and agent
technologies. Hence, it has a special place within simulation and
agent conferences, including agent-based (social) simulation
conferences. Therefore the ADS symposium fills a gap in the agent
community as well as the simulation community.

The purpose of the ADS symposium is to facilitate dissemination of the
most recent advancements in the theory, methodology, application, and
toolkits of agent-directed simulation. Agent-directed simulation is
comprehensive in the integration of agent and simulation technologies,
by including models that use agents to develop domain-specific
simulations, i.e., agent simulation (this is often referred to as
agent-based simulation -when other two important aspects are not
considered), and by also including the use of agent technology to
develop simulation techniques and toolkits that are subsequently
applied, either with or without agents.

Hence, agent-directed simulation consists of three distinct, yet
related areas that can be grouped under two categories as follows:

   1. Simulation for Agents (agent simulation): simulation of agent
      systems in engineering, human and social dynamics, military
      applications etc.
   2. Agents for Simulation (which has two aspects): agent-supported
      simulation deals with the use of agents as a support facility to
      enable computer assistance in problem solving or enhancing
      cognitive capabilities; and agent-based simulation that focuses
      on the use of agents for the generation of model behavior in a
      simulation study.

Through the theme of agent-directed simulation, the symposium will
bring together agent technologies, tools, toolkits, platforms,
languages, methodologies, and applications in a pragmatic manner. In
this symposium, established researchers, educators, and students are
encouraged to come together and discuss the benefits of agent
technology in their use and application for simulation. It is a way
for people to discuss why and how they have used agent technology in
their simulations, and describe the benefit of having done so.


The theme of ADS'12 is based on the observation of the following
premises.

   * The growth of new advanced distributed computing standards along
     with the rapid rise of e-commerce are providing a new context that
     acts as a critical driver for the development of next generation
     systems. These standards revolve around service-oriented
     technologies, pervasive computing, web-services, Grid, autonomic
     computing, ambient intelligence etc. The supporting role that
     intelligent agents play in the development of such systems is
     becoming pervasive, and simulation plays a critical role in the
     analysis and design of such systems.

   * The use of emergent agent technologies at the organization,
     interaction (e.g., coordination, negotiation, communication) and
     agent levels (i.e. reasoning, autonomy) are expected to advance
     the state of the art in various application technologies is
     difficult. Using agent-supported simulation techniques for
     testing complex agent systems is up and coming field.

   * To facilitate bridging the gap between research and application,
     there is a need for tools, agent programming languages, and
     methodologies to analyze, design, and implement complex,
     non-trivial agent-based simulations. Existing agent-based
     simulation tools are still not mature enough to enable developing
     agents with varying degrees cognitive and reasoning capabilities.

ADS 2012 will provide a leading forum to bring together researchers and
practitioners from diverse simulation societies within computer science,
social sciences, engineering, business, education, human factors, and
systems engineering. The involvement of various agent-directed
simulation groups will enable the cross-fertilization of ideas and
development of new perspectives by fostering novel advanced solutions,
as well as enabling technologies for agent-directed simulation

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

   * Technical papers provide a longer format for presenting experience
     reports, research results, or descriptions of  "work in progress".
     They are limited to 8 pages.

   * Short position papers are targeted at raising a question or framing
     an issue for discussion during the symposium. Position papers are
     limited to 3 pages.

   * Poster presentations present an opportunity to present work in
     progress and receive feedback from colleagues. A one page write-up
     of the poster presentations will be included in the proceedings.

Formatting guidelines and author instructions are available at
     http://www.scs.org/conferences .
Papers should be submitted electronically to
     http://www.softconf.com/scs/ADS12 .
All papers will be subject to a peer-reviewing process by three program 
committee members. (Please see the key dates listed below)


FINAL PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All prospective authors, whose papers are accepted for inclusion in the 
program, will be invited to submit their position or technical papers to 
ADS'12. Accepted and registered papers will be published in the conference 
proceedings by the SCS. The committee will select a set of best papers. Authors 
of these papers will be encouraged to submit appropriately expanded versions of 
these papers for journal publication.


KEY DATES
   Feb 6, 2012: Manuscript submission
   Feb 15, 2012: Notification of acceptance
   Mar 1,  2012: Full Camera-ready papers
   Mar 26-29, 2012: ADS'12 Symposium along with SpringSim'12 Conference


General Co-Chairs
   Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University
   Tuncer Oren, University of Ottawa
Program Co-Chairs
   Gregory Madey, University of Notre Dame
   Maarten Sierhuis, Carnegie Mellon University, NASA Ames Research Center
   Yu Zhang, Trinity University