[agents] AOSE 2012 at AAMAS: New Submission Deadline Extension

[Massimo Cossentino]

 (apologies for multiple copies)

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                       Call For Papers

                         AOSE 2012

13th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

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********************** 25th MARCH 2012 *************************

 

Held with AAMAS 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 4, 2012

http://winf.in.tu-clausthal.de/events/aose12

 

 

MOTIVATION

 

Since the early 1990s, multi-agent system researchers have developed a

large body of knowledge on the foundations and engineering principles

for designing and developing agent-based systems. The 12 past editions

of the agent-oriented software engineering workshop (AOSE) had a key

role in this endeavor. For 2012, the workshop organizers and the

steering committee propose to organize an edition of AOSE workshop aimed

at exploring the new emerging role of agent-oriented software

engineering as a bridge from the now consolidated agent oriented

programming languages and platforms, to recent systems modelling

paradigms like self-*, autonomic systems, and systems of systems (SoS).

Thus, it is our hope to explore from an agent-based perspective,

foundations, models, methods, architectures, and tools for

engineering future software-intensive IT eco-systems.

 

The workshop organizers plan to publish accepted papers on a USB stick

as part of the AAMAS workshop registration package.

Revised post-proceedings papers will later be published in

a volume of the Lecture Notes for Computer Science series.

 

 

GOALS and TOPICS

 

The general goal of this year workshop is twofold: The first goal is to

study the role of agent-oriented software engineering in the design

phase of agents development. It is well known and accepted that agents -

from the software engineering perspective - are of particular interest

as an analysis abstraction. This has been true for several years but the

most recent advancements in agent-oriented programming languages have

proposed new challenges: software engineers may now design and code

their solutions in terms of agents. The old need of moving to the

object-oriented level of abstraction is overpassed and the new

developing platforms allow for a more natural transformation of AO

analysis models into AO design models. This reality has been soon

perceived by researcher and practitioners. An example of this new trend

may be found in the refreshed interest about testing of agents.

 

The second goal concerns the other side of the proposed ideal bridge:

the needs of new design approaches specifically suited for facing the

needs of self-organizing systems, autonomic systems and systems of

systems. In the last years we have seen considerable research efforts on

these topics; however, only few of them have their scope and foundations

in the software engineering field.

 

Novel efforts are necessary to cope with these new challenges in order

to find specific solutions that could bring such systems from research

to industrialization. In this context, a means for bridging the above

mentioned research (and application) streams may come from the advances

on organizations, norms, and institutions. Are they mature enough for

being applied to stable agent-oriented languages and for contributing to

the engineering of self-organizing and autonomic systems? The proposed

aim is find an answer to this question or to propose further hints for

future investigations on the application of organizations, norms and

institutions to the design of agent-oriented systems.

 

Topics of regular papers include but are not restricted to:

 

* Agent-based concepts for systems of systems engineering

* Agent-based solutions for managing complexity in software engineering

* Agents and model-driven approaches

* Agents and services

* Agents for self-adaptive systems

* Alignment of agents with service-oriented software development

* Autonomy vs. dependability and robustness

* CASE tools to support agent-oriented software development in practice

* Coordination infrastructures for multi-agent systems

* Engineering multi-agent organizations

* Engineering self-organizing systems

* Goal-oriented design

* Implications of introducing agent-based solutions on the development

organization

* Integration of agents with legacy systems

* Middleware integration of agent-based software

* Multi-agent based simulation

* Programming agents and multi-agent systems

* Qualities and tradeoffs of agent-based architectures

* Reusable design knowledge: patterns and reference architectures

* Social engineering

* Software architectures for multi-agent systems

* Standardization efforts for multi-agent systems

* Testing of agent-based software

* Validation of agent technology in practice

* Verification of agent-based software

 

 

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

 

AOSE welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental,

methodological as well as application papers with a clear research focus

on the topics outlined above. Each paper will be evaluated by three

members of the PC. Papers that present a valuable idea that needs

further development can be accepted as a short paper.

 

 

SUBMISSIONS

 

Papers should be between 8 and 12 pages, including the text, figures,

and references. The submissions must be formatted according to the

Springer Verlag LNCS style. PDF format is required. Papers can be

submitted via EasyChair 'AOSE2012',

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aose2012

The good receipt of your submission will be confirmed by email.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Pre-proceedings containing all accepted papers are provided

electronically on a USB stick as part of the AAMAS workshop registration

package. The plan is to publish revised versions of accepted papers in a

Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. For this purpose, authors will

be given the opportunity to revise and re-submit their contributions

after the conference.

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES (extended deadline!)

 

Paper submission deadline: 22th March 2012

Paper notifications: 6th April 2012

Camera ready paper (pre-proceedings): 13th April 2012

Workshop: 4th June 2012

 

 

COMMITTEES

 

Organizing Committee

* Massimo Cossentino, National Research Council of Italy, Palermo, Italy

* Joerg P. Mueller, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Institut for Informatik, Germany

 

Program Committee:

Carole Bernon,Universite Paul Sabatier, France

Lars Braubach,University of Hamburg, Germany

Scott A. Deloach,Kansas State University, USA

Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni,University Pierre and Marie Curie, France

Giancarlo Fortino,Universita della Calabria, Italy

Rubén Fuentes-Fernández, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain

Aditya Ghose,University of Wollongong, Australia

Holger Giese,University of Potsdam, Germany

Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy

Adriana Giret,Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Marie-Pierre Gleizes,Universite Paul Sabatier, France

Jorge Gomez-Sanz,Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain

Juan Carlos Gonzalez Moreno,Universidad de Vigo, Ourense, Spain

Vincent Hilaire, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbelliard, France

Joao Leite,University of Lisbon, Portugal

Philippe Mathieu,Universite Lille 1, France

Frederic Migeon,Universite Paul Sabatier, France

Ambra Molesini,University of Bologna, Italy

Pavlos Moraitis, Paris Descartes University, France

Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London

Andrea Omicini,University of Bologna, Italy

Flavio Oquendo,Universite de Bretagne Sud, France

Juan Pavon,Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain

Gauthier Picard, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France

Alexander Pokahr,University of Hamburg, Germany

Michal Pěchouček, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Alessandro Ricci,University of Bologna, Italy

Fariba Sadri,Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, England

Valeria Seidita,University of Palermo, Italy

Onn Shehory,IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel

Carles Sierra, Spanish Research Council, Spain

Kuldar Taveter, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

László Zsolt Varga, Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary

Danny Weyns,Linnaeus University, Sweden
 

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