[agents] CFP - 8th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S'14)

[Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS))]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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8th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S'14)

Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014

WWW: http://fedcsis.org/mass
E-mail: mass2014 at fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper 
to MAS&S 2014 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer 
Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014).

Multi-agent systems (MASs) provide powerful models for representing both 
real-world systems and applications with an appropriate degree of 
complexity and dynamics. Several research and industrial experiences 
have already shown that the use of MASs offers advantages in a wide 
range of application domains (e.g. financial, economic, social, 
logistic, chemical, engineering). When MASs represent software 
applications to be effectively delivered, they need to be validated and 
evaluated before their deployment and execution, thus methodologies that 
support validation and evaluation through simulation of the MAS under 
development are highly required. In other emerging areas (e.g. ACE, 
ACF), MASs are designed for representing systems at different levels of 
complexity through the use of autonomous, goal-driven and interacting 
entities organized into societies which exhibit emergent properties The 
agent-based model of a system can then be executed to simulate the 
behavior of the complete system so that knowledge of the behaviors of 
the entities (micro-level) produce an understanding of the overall 
outcome at the system-level (macro-level). In both cases (MASs as 
software applications and MASs as models for the analysis of complex 
systems), simulation plays a crucial role that needs to be further 
investigated.

TOPICS
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MAS&S'14 aims at providing a forum for discussing recent advances in 
Engineering Complex Systems by exploiting Agent-Based Modeling and 
Simulation. In particular, the areas of interest are the following 
(although this list should not be considered as exclusive):

  - Agent-based simulation techniques and methodologies
  - Discrete-event simulation of Multi-Agent Systems
  - Simulation as validation tool for the development process of MAS
  - Agent-oriented methodologies incorporating simulation tools
  - MAS simulation driven by formal models
  - MAS simulation toolkits and frameworks
  - Testing vs. simulation of MAS
  - Industrial case studies based on MAS and simulation/testing
  - Agent-based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS)
  - Agent Computational Economics (ACE)
  - Agent Computational Finance (ACF)
  - Agent-based simulation of networked systems
  - Scalability in agent-based simulation

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by April 11, 2014. Preprints will be 
published on a USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. Papers 
presented during the conference will be published in the IEEE Xplore 
Digital Library proceedings, and posted at the conference WWW site. The 
IEEE proceedings will be published under an ISBN and ISSN numbers (and 
an IEEE Catalog number), under a nonexclusive copyright. Since 2012, 
Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Thomson Reuters 
Web of Science. Moreover, extended versions of selected papers presented 
during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: April 11, 2014
- Position paper submission: May 12, 2014
- Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014
- Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014
- Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Cossentino, Massimo, ICAR-CNR, Italy
- Fortino, Giancarlo, Universita della Calabria, Italy
- Hilaire, Vincent, Université de Belfort-Montbéliard, France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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- Arcangeli, Jean-Paul, Université Paul Sabatier, France
- Bernon, Carole, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
- Botía, Juan, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
- Davidsson, Paul, Malmö University, Sweden
- Garro, Alfredo, University of Calabria, Italy
- Gomez-Sanz, Jorge J., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Gravina, Raffaele, University of Calabria, Italy
- Guerrieri, Antonio, University of Calabria, Italy
- Hassan, Samer, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Jedrzejowicz, Piotr, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
- Klügl, Franziska, Örebro Universitet, Sweden
- López-Paredes, Adolfo, INSISOC - University of Valladolid, Spain
- Molesini, Ambra, Università di Bologna, Italy
- Niazi, Muaz, Pakistan
- Petta, Paolo, OFAI, Austria
- Picard, Gauthier, EMSE, Saint Etienne, France
- Seidita, Valeria, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
- Terna, Pietro, Università di Torino, Italy
- Vizzari, Giuseppe, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy