[agents] CFP: AGERE! @ SPLASH 2013

[Rafael H Bordini]

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CFP: AGERE! @ SPLASH 2013

3rd Int. Workshop on Programming based on  Actors, Agents,
and Decentralized Control

http://agents.usask.ca/agere2013

ACM SIGPLAN sponsored Workshop held at SPLASH Conference
http://splashcon.org/2013/

Indianapolis, Indiana (US)
October 27-28, 2013

=====  Introduction

ăgo ăgo, ăgis, egi, actum, ăgĕre
latin verb meaning to act, to lead, to do,
common root for actors and agents
				
The fundamental turn of software into concurrency and distribution
is not only a matter of performance, but also of design and abstraction.
It calls for programming paradigms that, compared to current mainstream
paradigms, would allow us to more naturally think about, design, develop,
execute, debug, and profile systems exhibiting different degrees of
concurrency, autonomy, decentralization of control, and physical 
distribution.

AGERE! is an ACM SIGPLAN workshop dedicated to focusing on and 
developing the
research  on programming systems, languages and applications based on 
actors,
agents and any related programming paradigm promoting a decentralized 
mindset
in solving problems and in developing systems to implement such solutions.

The workshop is designed to cover both the theory and the practice of 
design
and programming, bringing together researchers working on the models,
languages and  technologies, and practitioners developing real-world 
systems
and applications.
	 	 		
The proceedings of the workshop will be published on the ACM Digital 
Library,
as an official ACM SIGPLAN publication.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

- Ideas, concepts, formalization of the computation and programming models
  for concurrent objects, actors, agents and decentralized control 
Programming
- Theory and practice of programming languages based on actors/concurrent
  objects/agents (typing, modularity, mechanism for extensibility, 
reuse, etc)
- Libraries, frameworks and platform based on actors, concurrent objects,
  agents and high-level paradigms for concurrent/distributed/asynchronous
  programming
- Programming techniques
- Actor-based / agent-based programming idioms
- Integration with mainstream languages and technologies
- Design principles underlying relevant paradigms and bridging the gap 
between
  design and programming
- Design patterns for actor/agent based systems
- Theory and tools about testing, debugging, profiling, verifying and 
validating
  software systems based on such paradigms
- Design and development of real-world applications	
- Experiences and reflections about using these paradigms in teaching
  programming (concurrent, distributed - but not only)
		
===== Contributions

AGERE! welcomes three kinds of contributions:

- Full papers

Length up to 10 pages (ACM format).  These papers should present new 
previously
unpublished research in one or more of the topics identified above.

- Short papers & position papers

Length up to 4 pages (ACM format).  These papers should introduce a 
contribution
(an idea, a viewpoint, an argument, work in progress...) which may be in 
its initial
stage and not fully developed but which is worth being presented given 
its relevance
to the AGERE! topics, to trigger discussions and interactions.

- Reviews & surveys:

Length up to 10 pages (ACM format).  These papers should provide a good 
synthesis
and reflections about some aspect (specific or general) relevant to 
topics of the
workshop, contributing to discussions on the state of the art and open 
issues.

- Demos:

Length up to 4 pages (ACM format).  These contributions should be about a
technology/system to be demonstrated during the workshop.

=====  Important dates and submission

Deadlines:

- Abstracts:  	August 4, 2013
- Papers:    	August 11, 2013

Papers can be submitted here:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ageresplash2012

in PDF format. Submissions should use the ACM format, following the 
guidelines in
http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm.

===== Organization and Committees

Organizers:

Nadeem Jamali, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Gera Weiss,  Ben Gurion University of Negev, Israel
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
Akinori Yonezawa, Riken Advanced Institute of Computational Science, 
Kobe, Japan

Steering Committee

Gul Agha, University of Illinois-Urbana, US
Rafael Bordini, FACIN-PUCRS, Brazil
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
Assaf Marron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Program Committee (partial list, other names are to be confirmed)

Philipp Haller, Typesafe, Switzerland
Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Tom Van Cutsem, Vrije Universiteit, Belgium
Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern
Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit, Belgium
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
Assaf Marron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Olaf Owe, University of Oslo, Norway
Rafael Bordini, FACIN-PUCRS, Brazil
Birna van Riemsdijk, TUDelft, The Netherlands
Amal El Fallah Segrouchni, LIP6, Paris
Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein, Switzerland
Mirko Viroli, Università di Bologna, Italy
Yoshiki Ohshima, VPRI, US	


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