[agents] CFP: Book Chapters on Industrial Agent Applications

[Stamatis Karnouskos]

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CFP for Book Chapters on

Industrial Agents:

Emerging Applications of Software Agents in Industry

http://tcia.ieee-ies.org/?pag=bia

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-=-= Motivation =-=-

Collaborative networks, manufacturing, services and infrastructures are all
moving through a rapid and continual process of redefinition driven by
demanding markets, globally competition and rapid technological change.
These drivers manifest themselves in terms of more frequent product and
service changes, greater customization, relentless improvements in cost,
quality and reliability and infrastructure that must be both flexible and
readily reconfigurable both physically and in terms of their information
systems. The key question to be answered by new scientific approaches and
technologies is "how" to aggregate resources, especially next generation
intelligent systems, manual workplaces and information and material flow
system found on the enterprise (from the lowest level -real-time
supervisory control systems) throughout the shop floor to the upper
management levels, into organizational and executive units optimal to
overtake the role of autonomous and collaborative management and control
units.

Agent-based software systems are becoming a key management and control
software technology for smart production management and control systems. A
multi-agent based software platform can offer distributed intelligent
management and control functions with communication, cooperation and
synchronization capabilities, and also provide for the behavior
specifications of the smart components of the system. And this offers a
convincing answer to the key question addressed above.

The book is coauthored by key experts in the domain and supported by the
IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Agents (http://tcia.ieee-ies.org/).
Its goal is to address both industry practitioners and academia. For some
parts of the book this "open call for papers" is underway, via which we
hope to include key existing and visionary industrial applications in the
domain of Industrial Agents. The book will be published by Elsevier USA.

-=-= Contributions sought =-=-

Track A is the main objective of this CFP. If you are interested in
authoring for the Track B, please send an extended abstract to the editors
for consideration.

Track A: Industrial Agent Applications

Topics of interest include:

- Applications of Industrial Agents

- Testbeds of Industrial Agents

- Hands-on Experiences on prototyping systems and applications using
Industrial Agents

- Emerging domains and applications

The focus is on real world industrial applications, their
motivation/overview, detailed description, benefits, assessment, and
conclusion. Such applications may include already productive systems as
well as innovative future ones currently developed in cutting-edge R&D
projects.


Track B: Context Setting

Topics of interest include: Concepts, Technologies, Visions, Challenges and
Roadmaps. This area may include introductory concepts to agents,
cartography of technologies and concepts, limitations and applicability.

The calls for both track A and B may tap into the aspects e.g., related to:
Intelligent and cooperative Multi-Agent Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems,
System of Systems, Complex Systems Engineering, Agents in field control,
Engineering methodologies, techniques and technologies and the changes
caused by them within traditional engineering processes, Self-* properties
in application domains e.g. factory automation, smart grid, etc.,
standardization and best practices in industrial settings, Integration with
emerging Internet (fixed & mobile) technologies, Lessons Learned from
real-world use-cases, Infrastructures, Services and Testbeds for Industrial
Agents, Impact of agent orientation on tooling, Economic and market
analysis of Industrial Agents and their impact etc.

-=-= Timeline =-=-

30-Dec-2013: Full paper submission

28-Feb-2014: Notification of acceptance

15-Apr-2014: Submission of final version

Q4 2014: expected publication by Elsevier

-=-= Format and Structure =-=-

All contributions are expected to be submitted in PDF accompanied with the
complete sources in LaTeX or Word. Additional info on structure, templates,
and submission procedure can be found here (
http://tcia.ieee-ies.org/?pag=bia).

For any additional info you might require, don't hesitate to

contact us at ia-book-2014 at easychair.org


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