[agents] Call for papers: 9th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S'15)

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   CALL FOR PAPERS
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9th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S'15)

Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015

WWW: https://fedcsis.org/mass
E-mail: mass2015 at fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper 
to MAS&S 2015 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer 
Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2015).

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, Internet of Things). 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'15 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-based Ambient Systems
  * 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 24, 2015. Preprints will be 
published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. 
Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the 
IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, 
proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will 
posted at the conference WWW site.  Extended versions of selected papers 
presented during the conference will be invited to:

  * The Special Issue of Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience
  * Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (publication fee waiver for the
    papers that are going to be selected is expected)
  * Multiagent and Grid Systems
  * Computer Science Journal (7 points in current ranking of MNiSW -
    this is something cryptic to the outsiders, but will be clear for
    scientists from Poland)


IMPORTANT DATES
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  * Paper submission: April 24, 2014 (strict deadline)
  * Position paper submission: June 1, 2015
  * Acceptance decision: June 15, 2015
  * Final version of paper submission: July 1, 2015
  * Final deadline for discounted fee: July 1, 2015
  * Conference dates: September 13-16, 2015


EVENT CHAIRS
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  * Fortino, Giancarlo, Universita della Calabria, Italy
  * Fuentes-Fernández, Rubén, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  * Migeon, Frederic, IRIT - University of Toulouse
  * Seidita, Valeria, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy


STEERING COMMITTEE
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  * Cossentino, Massimo, ICAR-CNR, Italy
  * Fortino, Giancarlo, Universita della Calabria, Italy
  * Gleizes, Marie-Pierre, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
  * Hilaire, Vincent, Université de Belfort-Montbéliard, France
  * Pavón, Juan, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  * Russo, Wilma, Universita della Calabria, Italy


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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  * Arcangeli, Jean-Paul, Université Paul Sabatier, France
  * Bernon, Carole, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
  * Botía, Juan, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
  * Cossentino, Massimo, ICAR-CNR, Italy
  * 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, Bahria University, Pakistan
  * Petta, Paolo, OFAI, Austria
  * Picard, Gauthier, EMSE, Saint Etienne, France
  * Ribino, Patrizia, Istituto di Reti e Calcolo ad Alte Prestazioni -
    Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
  * Terna, Pietro, Università di Torino, Italy
  * Vizzari, Giuseppe, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy

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CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki


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