[agents] MAS&S 2017 CFP: call for position papers, deadline May 31st, 2017, at FedCSIS 2017

[Ruben Fuentes]

   CALL FOR PAPERS
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11th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S 
2017)

Prague, Czech Republic, 3 - 6 September, 2017

WWW: https://www.fedcsis.org/2017/mass and https://fedcsis.org/
E-mail: mass2017 at fedcsis.org


We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a 
position paper to MAS&S 2017 - held as a part of the Federated 
Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017).

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'17 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
- Agent-based modeling of intelligent social phenomena



PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by May 31, 2017. The page limit for position 
papers is 8 pages. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick 
provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the 
conference will be published electronically in a volume of "Annals of 
Computer Science and Information Systems" (ACSIS). Position and 
communication papers are published in a separate ACSIS volume(s) from 
regular papers, and and they are not submitted to the IEEE Xplore DL.


IMPORTANT DATES
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- Position paper submission: May 31, 2017
- Acceptance decision: June 14, 2017
- Final version of paper submission: July 28, 2017
- Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2017
- Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017


EVENT CHAIRS
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- Fuentes-Fernández, Rubén, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Gravina, Raffaele, University of Calabria, Italy
- 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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- Antunes, Luis, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
- Azar, Ahmad Taher, Benha University, Egypt, Egypt
- 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
- Guerrieri, Antonio, University of Calabria, Italy
- Molesini, Ambra, Università di Bologna, Italy
- Petta, Paolo, OFAI, Austria
- Ribino, Patrizia, ICAR-CNR, Italy
- Savaglio, Claudio, Universita della Calabria
- Vizzari, Giuseppe, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
- Zia, Kashif, Sohar University, Oman, Pakistan


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Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki


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