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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">================================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">CFP: ALAW @ FAIM (joint IJCAI/ECAI/AAMAS/ICML conferences) 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">2nd International Workshop on Agents Living in Augmented Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Web Site: <a href="alaw2018.apice.unibo.it">
alaw2018.apice.unibo.it</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Held at the Federated Artificial Intelligence Meeting (FAIM),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Joint IJCAI/ECAI/AAMAS/ICML conferences - Stockholm (Sweden) - July 13-15, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">================================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== INTRODUCTION =====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The scale of future Augmented Worlds range from small environments and augmented individual artifacts, up to large augmented realities and aggregates, including buildings, neighborhoods, or entire
cities. Intelligent agents and related technologies represent a natural way to model the citizens living on the digital side of these augmented worlds, as either the soul of smart/augmented objects, or as the smart assistants of human users inhabiting these
worlds, or rather as distributed and situated teams helping human coordination and cooperation. Pervasive computing, IoT and the Cloud, as well as mobile augmented/mixed reality frameworks, represent the enabling technologies on top of which the agent-oriented
layers are based.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The objective of the workshop is to be an interdisciplinary forum where to discuss any aspect that concerns agent-based augmented worlds, from their conceptual and theoretical foundations, to their
design and engineering, and their applications to specific domains. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The workshop aims at exploring the impact that these augmented worlds can have on making individual and collective human/agent actions more effective, on enhancing human/agent reasoning capability,
imagination, learning, sociality, and so on; on how human activities and processes can be (re-)shaped while the physical environment where these Augmented Worlds are instantiated is (re-)shaped too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Agent-based augment worlds can be a lab where to explore novel forms of human augmentation - besides reality augmentation - along different dimensions, such as augmented cognition and augmented
sociality. Novel forms of interaction can be studied inside them, enabling humans communicating/cooperating - either explicitly or implicitly - with other humans and with the intelligent agents populating and shaping such augmented worlds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== TOPICS OF INTEREST =====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The list of topics of interest for the workshop includes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Models and theories of agency and MAS living in/shaping Augmented Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Methodologies for designing agent systems living in/shaping Augmented Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Methodologies for evaluating applications using MAS living in/shaping Augmented Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Interaction, coordination, cooperation models inside Augmented worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Agent-based platforms and technologies for developing Augmented Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Human augmentation by means of agents and multi-agent systems in Augmented Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Real-world applications designed using agent-based Augmented Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Future applications of Agent Oriented Programming to develop Mixed and Augmented Reality Applications based within Augmented Worlds.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Specific areas of application for Augmented Worlds e.g Education, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Gaming, Simulations, ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== CONTRIBUTIONS =====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The workshop welcomes any research contribution in the form of either a demonstration exhibit (submitted as a 1 page abstract) or to submit a position paper (8 pages) or regular paper (16 pages)
which would allow to solicit the discussion and brainstorming about any relevant aspect related to agents living in an augmented worlds, either theoretical/conceptual and practical. A main objective of the meeting is booting a community on these issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">A further important objective of the meeting is to set up the first publication of this vision, providing an overview about the state-of-the-art, starting from the research and discussion originated
during the workshop. This publication is planned to be either a book or a special issue on some high-level reference journal (e.g. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== IMPORTANT DATES =====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Paper submission deadline: May 1st, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Notification of acceptance: May 29th, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Workshop: July 14th, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== SUBMISSION DETAILS =====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Papers can be submitted via EasyChair in PDF format through following link.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alaw2018">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alaw2018</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Submissions should use the Springer LNCS format, following the guidelines at
<a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors</a>. The maximum number of pages (including references, figures, tables and appendix) is limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Regular Papers: 16 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Position Papers: 8 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Demonstrations: 1 page (abstract)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE =====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Organizers and PC chairs in alphabetical order:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Abraham Campbell, University College Dublin, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Carlos Carrascosa, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Angelo Croatti, University of Bologna, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Gregory O’Hare, University College Dublin, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== ALAW @ FAIM 2018 (joint IJCAI/ECAI/AAMAS/ICML conferences)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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