[agents] 1st International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) - Last Call for Papers

[Massimo Cossentino]

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                          Call for Papers
                             EMAS 2013
1st International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS)

Held with AAMAS 2013, Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA), 6th-7th May 2013
http://emas2013.otago.ac.nz

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EMAS is the result of the merging of three "parent" workshops: AOSE,
DALT and ProMAS. It looks at their communities as its natural reference
audience.


MOTIVATION

Although much progress has been made, the design, implementation and
deployment of multi-agent systems still poses many challenges. Some of these
concern design and software engineering aspects, for example, how to effectively
design agents and their interactions? Other challenges concern implementation,
for instance, how to effectively implement multi-agent coordination or
organisations? Further challenges concern use of logic-based techniques for
verification of agent systems.

It is increasingly apparent that there are benefits in considering design and
implementation challenges together. For example, design artefacts can be used to
support and assist with debugging and testing. Another example is the
development of agent-oriented programming languages that result in programs that
are more readily verifiable. A final example is the use of declarative
techniques that span design and implementation. This unveils a tight
interlacement among the different research issues in multi-agent systems
engineering.

This naturally results in a workshop that brings together the currently separate 
topics (but overlapping communities) that focus on software engineering aspects 
(AOSE), programming aspects (ProMAS), and the application of declarative 
techniques to design, programming and verification (DALT).

Furthermore, EMAS is an ideal place for papers on innovative applications of agents. 
In particular, there is a great interest from the EMAS community in having people 
who have developed applications articulate the lessons learned and engineering 
challenges identified in building and deploying their applications.


GOALS AND TOPICS

The EMAS workshop explicitly pursues three goals:

A. To progress and further develop the understanding of how to engineer multi-agent 
   systems.
B. To bring together the communities that are concerned with different aspects of 
   engineering multi-agent systems, and by doing so, allow for better interchange 
   of ideas between the communities, thus exploiting synergies discussed above.
C. To attract workshop papers that describe innovative applications

We thus call for research papers that are concerned with any aspect of the 
engineering of multi-agent systems. Specifically including any topics that would 
fall  within the scope of one or more of the three parent workshops:
a) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering,
b) Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies,
c) Programming Multi-Agent Systems.

We also seek application papers that describe developed applications. Such papers
should not just describe an application, but also the lessons learned and the 
engineering challenges identified in building and deploying the applications.
AUTHOR GUIDELINES

EMAS 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.

SUBMISSIONS

Paper length should be at most 16 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 'EMAS2013',
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emas2013


PROCEEDINGS

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

Paper submission deadline: 30th January 2013
Paper notifications: 28th February 2013
Camera ready paper (pre-proceedings): 11th March 2013
Workshop: 6th-7th May 2013


COMMITTEES
Organizing Committee

Massimo Cossentino (National Research Council, Italy)
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (University of Pierre and Marie Curie - Paris 6, France)
Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand)


Steering Committee

Matteo Baldoni (DALT; Italy)
Rafael Bordini (ProMAS; Brazil)
Mehdi Dastani (ProMAS; Netherlands)
Jürgen Dix (ProMAS; Germany)
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni* (ProMAS; France)
Paolo Giorgini (AOSE; Italy)
Jörg Müller (AOSE; Germany)
M. Birna Van Riemsdijk (DALT; Netherlands)
Tran Cao Son (DALT; USA)
Gerhard Weiss (AOSE; Netherlands)
Danny Weyns (AOSE; Sweden)
Michael Winikoff* (DALT & AOSE; New Zealand).


Preliminary Program Committee

Natasha Alechina (Nottingham, UK)
Matteo Baldoni (Torino, Italy)
Cristina Baroglio (Torino, Italy)
Jeremy Baxter (QinetiQ, UK)
Olivier Boissier (Saint-Etienne, France)
Rafael Bordini (FACIN-PUCRS, Brazil)
Lars Braubach (Hamburg, Germany)
Rem Collier (Dublin, Ireland)
Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Scott DeLoach (Kansas state, USA)
Louise Dennis (Liverpool, UK)
Virginia Dignum (Delft, Netherlands)
Jürgen Dix (Clausthal, Germany)
Giancarlo Fortino (Uni. Calabria, Italy)
Aditya Ghose (Wollongong, Australia)
Paolo Giorgini (Trento, Italy)
Adriana Giret (Valencia, Spain)
Marie-Pierre Gleizes (IRIT, Uni. Paul Sabatier, France)
Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz (Madrid, Spain)
Christian Guttmann (IBM, Australia)
James Harland (RMIT, Australia)
Vincent Hilaire (Belford-Montbelliard, France)
Koen Hindriks (Delft, Netherlands)
Benjamin Hirsch (Berlin, Germany)
Tom Holvoet (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Jomi Hübner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Michael Huhns (South Carolina, USA)
Joao Leite (Lisboa, Portugal)
Yves Lesperance (York, Canada)
Brian Logan (University of Nottingham, UK)
Viviana Mascardi (Genova, Italy)
Philippe Mathieu (Lille 1, France)
Felipe Meneguzzi (CMU, USA)
John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Frédéric Migeon (IRIT, Uni. Paul Sabatier, France)
Ambra Molesini (Bologna, Italy)
Pavlos Moraitis (Paris Descartes, France)
Haralambos Mouratidis (East London, UK)
Jörg Müller (Clausthal, Germany)
Peter Novak (Czech TU, Czech Republic)
Andrea Omicini (Bologna, Italy)
Julian Padget (Uni. Bath, UK)
Lin Padgham (RMIT, Australia)
Fabio Patrizi (Imperial college, UK)
Juan Pavon (Madrid, Spain)
Michal Pechoucek (Czech TU, Czech Republic)
Alexander Pokahr (Hamburg, Germany)
Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico state, USA)
Alessandro Ricci (Bologna, Italy)
Ralph Rönnquist (Intendico, Australia)
Chiaki Sakama (Wakayama Uni., Japan)
Valeria Seidita (Palermo, Italy)
Onn Shehory (IBM Haifa , Israel)
Guillermo Ricardo Simari (Uni Nacional del Sur, Argentina)
Tran Cao Son (New Mexico state, USA)
Nikolaos Spanoudakis (Tech. Uni. Crete, Greece)
Pankaj Telang (CISCO, USA)
Paolo Torroni (Bologna, Italy)
M. Birna van Riemsdijk (Delft, Netherlands)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (Aberdeen, UK)
Jørgen Villadsen (DTU Informatics, Denmark)
Gerhard Weiss (Maastricht, Netherlands)
Danny Weyns (Linnaeus, Sweden)
Wayne Wobcke (UNSW, Australia)
Pinar Yolum (Bogazici, Turkey)
Neil Yorke-Smith (American Uni Beirut / SRI, Lebanon / USA)

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