[agents] (ext. deadline 10th Feb.) Self-organizing multi-agent systems: Technologies and applications - KES-AMSTA'14

[Jose Luis Fernandez Marquez]

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                                       (EXTENDED DEADLINE - 10th February)

                  Self-organizing multi-agent systems: Technologies and 
applications Invited Session
                            - http://agents.usluge.tel.fer.hr/KES-AMSTA14 -

                         Invited Session of the 8th International KES 
Conference on
                          Agents and Multi-agent Systems -Technologies & 
Applications
                                                 (AMSTA-14)
                                  - http://amsta-14.kesinternational.org/ -

                                                 June 18 - 20, 2014
                                               Chania - Crete, Greece

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Multi-agent systems are composed of multiple interacting software 
components also known as agents who are capable of cooperating to solve 
problems that are beyond the abilities of any of them individually. 
Moreover, for scale, distribution or reasons due to uncertain 
environments, interactions among agents need to be realized in a 
completely decentralized and autonomous way. We can achieve all of the 
aforementioned if modeling multi-agent systems as self-organizing 
systems. Namely, by its definition self-organization is a process in 
which a global behavior emerges from the local interaction between 
different entities without any centralized control.
Even though self-organizing systems have been widely applied and their 
potentials are strongly recognized in many different application areas 
(e.g., swarm robotics, sensor networks and network optimization), the 
engineering of self-organizing system is still in a very early stage. 
Analogously to the software applications in the 60s, nowadays 
self-organizing systems have to be built from scratch. However, firstly 
there is a lack of simulators and tools that allow developers to build 
their prototypes and validate their applications. Secondly, there is 
also a lack of execution models and new paradigms for carrying on 
computations among a set of entities with computational capabilities.
Therefore, this invited session aims to connect researchers interested 
in self-organizing systems engineering, providing them a place for 
presenting and discussing new ideas that could contribute to the better 
understanding of the self-organizing systems engineering and 
transferring that knowledge to the industrial applications.

The subject areas will include, but are not limited to, the following:

     - Self-organizing design patterns
     - Execution models for self-organization
     - Architectural styles for self-organization
     - Bio-inspired self-organizing systems
     - Adaptation in self-organizing systems
     - Validation of self-organizing systems
     - Design and development of self-organizing systems
     - Tools and simulators for self-organizing systems engineering
     - Controlling emergent behavior in self-organizing systems
     - Self-organizing mechanisms in theory and practice
     - Methodologies for engineering self-organizing systems
     - Industrial applications of self-organizing systems
     - Software Engineering techniques for self-organization


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    Important Dates
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***  Feb. 10, 2014: Paper Submission (Extended deadline) ***
      March 3, 2014: Author Notification
      March 10, 2014: Camera-Ready Copy
      March 14, 2014: Author Registration



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    Program Co-Chairs
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Iva Bojic
     University of Zagreb
http://agents.usluge.tel.fer.hr//iva.bojic
     email: Iva.Bojic at fer.hr

Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez
     University of Geneva
http://www.cui.unige.ch/~fernajos/
     email: joseluis.fernandez at unige.ch

Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo
     University of Geneva
http://cui.unige.ch/~dimarzo/
     email: joseluis.fernandez at unige.ch



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    Program Committee Members
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Richard Anthony, Greenwich University, UK
Jake Beal, BBN technologies, USA
Juan Carlos Burguillo-Rial, University of Vigo, Spain
Jesus Cerquides, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Onder Gurcan, CEA LIST, France & Ege University, Turkey
Tomislav Lipic, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia
Sara Montagna, University of Bologna, Italy
Meritxell Vignyals, Southampton University, UK
Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy
Juan Ye, University of St. Andrews, UK
Hung La, Rutgers University, USA

... to be completed



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    Proceedings
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The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in their 
Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing series, index/abstracted* in 
ISI Proceedings, DBLP. Ulrich's, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt 
Math, MetaPress and Springerlink.



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    Paper submission and format
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Papers are invited for the conference on topics lying within the scope 
of the conference. All contributions must be of high quality, original, 
should not have been published elsewhere and should not be intended for 
publication elsewhere during the review period or time of the conference.

To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the 
conference Review Committee. Papers may be rejected without being sent 
to the reviewers if they are too long or if it is judged that they do 
not lie sufficiently within the scope of the conference.

The papers will be scheduled for presentation either orally or by 
poster, depending on their attributes, author preferences and referee 
recommendations. Please note that poster presentations are regarded as 
being of equal importance to oral presentations.

Submissions must be formatted according to the instructions which can be 
found on the Springer website (http://www.springer.com/series/11156) 
under "Instructions for Authors".

Papers must be submitted in PDF format for review purposes, but authors 
are required to upload editable word-processor files (LaTeX or MS Word) 
at the end of the review process.

The required paper length is 10 pages in publisher format. Papers longer 
than this may be subject to an additional charge. Papers much longer or 
shorter than the required length may be rejected, at the decision of the 
organisers.

Papers to be considered for the conference must be submitted in PDF form 
through the PROSE online submission and review system 
(http://amsta-14.kesinternational.org/prose.php)