[agents] Last 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

UPDATED DEADLINES:

- Abstracts:  	August 11, 2013
- Papers:    	August 18, 2013

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 11, 2013
- Papers:    	August 18, 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 Adv. Inst. of Comput. 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

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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