[agents] Call for papers: 10th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S'16)

[Ruben Fuentes]

   CALL FOR PAPERS
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10th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S 
2016)

Gdansk, Poland, September 11-14, 2016

WWW: https://www.fedcsis.org/2016/mass and https://fedcsis.org/
E-mail: mass2016 at fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper 
to MAS&S 2016 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer 
Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2016).

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. 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'16 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 for energy systems
- 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 18, 2016. 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 18, 2016 (strict deadline)
- Position paper submission: May 30, 2016
- Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016
- Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016
- Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Fortino, Giancarlo, Universita della Calabria, Italy
- Fuentes-Fernández, Rubén, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Niazi, Muaz A. - COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
- 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
- Pavon, Juan, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Russo, Wilma, Universita della Calabria, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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- Alam, Shah Jama, Habib University, Pakistan
- Antunes, Luis, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
- Arcangeli, Jean-Paul, Université Paul Sabatier, France
- Bernon, Carole, Université Paul Sabatier, France
- Cipresso, Pietro, I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy
- Davidsson, Paul, Malmö University, Sweden
- Garro, Alfredo, University of Calabria, Italy
- Gómez-Sanz, Jorge J., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Guerrieri, Antonio, University of Calabria, Italy
- Klügl, Franziska, Örebro Universitet, Sweden
- Molesini, Ambra, Università di Bologna, Italy
- Petta, Paolo, OFAI, Austria
- Ribino, Patrizia, ICAR-CNR, 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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