[agents] CFP: Cooperative Systems (COSYS) @ ACM SAC 2015

[Peter Lewis]

======================= Call for Papers ================================

                     Cooperative Systems
                          (COSYS)
         http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rza/cosys/cosys15/

 Technical Track of the ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
                        (SAC 2015)
         http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2015

            Salamanca, Spain, April 13-17, 2015

    The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM

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Scope
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Increasingly, computer systems are composed of many interacting
components which, due to issues of scale or separation, cannot be
centrally controlled; instead, it is desirable that these components
cooperate in order to harness resources or solve distributed problems,
across heterogeneous and dynamic environments.

Examples of cooperative systems include cloud computing, sensor networks
and the Internet of Things. Cooperative systems comprise entities which
interact with each other and their environment, providing services in
order to help achieve specific goals. They are characterised by their
underlying network architecture, their level of distribution, their mode
of interaction and the degree of autonomy of the entities. Common
approaches include client-server architectures, P2P systems, multi-agent
systems (MAS), self-organising systems and social networks.
Additionally, cooperation may be assumed a priori, or induced in
autonomous agents by self-interest.

Key challenges for cooperative systems include how to design and
implement entities and interaction models in order to achieve system
goals effectively, robustly and efficiently, within environmental
constraints. Adaptation, self-management, expressive knowledge
representation and flexible architectures and interaction mechanisms are
key enablers.

Topics of Interest
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The aim of this track is to provide a forum for the presentation of
original research on the design and deployment of cooperative systems
from academia and industry. The track seeks contributions on cooperative
behaviour and cooperative systems related but not limited to the
following topics:

* Architectures for cooperative systems
* Efficient adaptation and self-adaptation of cooperative systems
* Context-awareness and self-awareness in cooperative systems
* Managing the relationship between local, shared and global goals
* Resource management and brokering in cooperative systems
* Ontologies and knowledge representation in cooperative systems
* Autonomous and emergent behaviour in cooperative systems
* Arbitration, argumentation and negotiation in cooperative systems
* Self-management and self-configuration of cooperative systems
* Security, trust and reputation in cooperative systems
* Mediation and conflict management in cooperative systems
* Policy management in cooperative systems
* Cooperative systems for service provision and management
* Cooperative systems for resource management
* Cooperation in ubiquitous and pervasive environments
* Cooperation in social and P2P community systems
* Cooperative systems in e-science, e-commerce, e-government and e-learning
* Case studies and experiences of cooperative systems

Important Dates
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    Submission deadline: September 12, 2014
    Author notification: November 17, 2014
    Camera-ready copies: December 8, 2014
    Author Registration: December 15, 2014
    Symposium and Track: April 13-17, 2015

Program Committee
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Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Centre, Norway
Richard Anthony, University of Greenwich, UK
Irfan Awan, Bradford University, UK
Nick Blundell, University of Birmingham
Behzad Bordbar, University of Birmingham, UK
Arjun Chandra, Studix, Norway
Elton Domnori, Epoka University, Albania
Wei Fang, Jiangnan University, China
Harry Goldingay, Aston University, UK
Robert J. Hendley, University of Birmingham, UK
Elisa Huzita , State University of Maringa, Brazil
Mohan S Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Yong-Moo Kwon, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Korea
Massimo Mecella, University of Rome, Italy
M. Antonia Martinez-Carreras, University of Murcia, Spain
Minoru Nakayama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Kristian Nymoen, University of Oslo, Norway
Viktor Pekar, University of Birmingham, UK
Chris Peters, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK
Jose Raul Romero, University of Cordoba, Spain
Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Hamdi Yahyaoui, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Track Chairs
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Rachid Anane
Faculty of Engineering and Computing
Coventry University, UK

Peter Lewis
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Aston University, UK