[agents] Deadline Extended: Complexity journal SI on Scalable Distributed Decision-Making and Coordination in Large and Complex Systems

[Marin Lujak]

[Apologies for multiple copies]

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Complexity Journal, JCR Impact Factor in 2017: 1,829

 

Special Issue on Scalable Distributed Decision-Making and Coordination in
Large and Complex Systems: Methods, Techniques, and Models

 

 

Scope:

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Human society, global economy, and Internet are becoming ever more
decentralized while millions of computers connected to the Internet
facilitate engineering of systems whose scale goes beyond spatial and
computational boundaries of individual organizations.

 

The decision-making authority in this context is distributed throughout a
system and the decisions are made locally arising from interactions of an
individual with the rest of the system and with its environment. A desired
global behavior following the identifiable interest of the whole system is
the result of system intelligence that emerges from the system's belief
system and system's collective actions and, as such, is a shift away from
the hierarchical system paradigm. Distributed Decision-Making (DDM) models
are usually used to support group decision-making in such large and complex
systems where each agent holds only limited information and where the
cooperation between agents is crucial for the system's performance.

 

In this special issue, we invite the submission of original research
articles that focus on the design and implementation of new methods,
techniques, and models that adapt or hybridize findings from Distributed
Optimization, Multi-Agent Systems, Network Science, and Distributed
Computing and facilitate distributed/parallel/multi-agent decision-making
and coordination for solving complex computational and real-life problems in
large systems. Moreover, we welcome articles focused on any aspect of
intelligent and distributed decision-making and coordination in large and
complex systems including its formal analysis, with an intention to balance
between theoretical research ideas and their practicability. Review articles
on the State-of-the-Art in DDM are also welcome.

 

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

 

    DDM and distributed coordination models and algorithms

    DDM architectures and protocols

    DDM ownership

    Delegation and direct participation in DDM

    Emerging behaviors in DDM

    Fault-tolerance, reliability, and availability in DDM

    Hybrid DDM in systems involving software agents and human actors

    Individual versus system DDM performance

    (Meta)-heuristics for DDM

    Network intelligence and DDM

    Resolving gridlocks in DDM organizational structure

    Self-organization and adaptability of DDM

    Specification, semantics, verification, and testing of DDM

    Time-efficiency in DDM

    DDM in groups and crowds, Internet, logistics, multi-robot systems, and
transport

    DDM in intelligent grid and cloud infrastructures

    DDM in mobile adaptive networks

    DDM in unmanned aerial vehicles

 

 

Submission Guidelines:

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We solicit original contributions relevant to the special issue that have
not been published/presented earlier and are not under submission at any
other venue. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain
at least 40% of new material to be considered for the special issue. Authors
can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System at
https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/complexity/sddm/ .

 

New Submission Deadline          Friday, 26 April 2019

Publication Date                              September 2019

 

Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue
publication date.

 

 

Guest Editors

 

    Marin Lujak, IMT Lille Douai, Douai, France

    Stefano Giordani, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy

    Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

 

 

 

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Marin Lujak

Associate Professor

IMT Lille Douai
Informatique et Automatique
941, rue Charles Bourseul
59508 Douai Cedex, France

 

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