[agents] PAAMS Special session on COoperative and RE-configurable MultiAgent System for Industrial Environments

[Emmanuel Adam]

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*PAAMS 2013* 
*COREMAS Special Session * 


Special session on : "COoperative and RE-configurable MultiAgent System for Industrial Environments" 
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Located at PAAMS'2013 : the International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (11th edition) 


Location : University of Salamanca (Spain) 
Date : 22nd-24th May, 2013, 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 13th January, 2013 
Notification date 4th February, 2013 
Paper ready date 20th February, 2013 
Conference dates 22nd-24th May 2013 


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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 2013 Special Sessions. 


The template can be downloaded here : http://www.springer.com/series/4240 
All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the PAAMS 2013 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 2013 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 2013, offers 40 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 - UMR CNRS 8202 
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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