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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">*** </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">UPDATES ABOUT PUBLICATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS FORMAT (SEE BELOW)***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">============================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">CFP: ALAW @ FAIM (joint IJCAI/ECAI/AAMAS/ICML conferences) 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">2nd International Workshop on Agents Living in Augmented Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Web Site:
<a href="http://alaw2018.apice.unibo.it">alaw2018.apice.unibo.it</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Held at the Federated Artificial Intelligence Meeting (FAIM),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Joint IJCAI/ECAI/AAMAS/ICML conferences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Stockholm (Sweden) - July 14-15, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== INTRODUCTION =====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" 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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" 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="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" 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. 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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== TOPICS OF INTEREST =====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">The list of topics of interest for the workshop includes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" 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="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Methodologies for designing agent systems living in/shaping Augmented Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Methodologies for evaluating applications using MAS living in/shaping Augmented Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Interaction, coordination, cooperation models inside Augmented worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Agent-based platforms and technologies for developing Augmented Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" 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="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Real-world applications designed using agent-based Augmented Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Future applications of Agent Oriented Programming to develop Mixed and Augmented Reality Applications based within Augmented Worlds.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Specific areas of application for Augmented Worlds e.g Education, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Gaming, Simulations, …
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== CONTRIBUTIONS AND PUBLICATIONS =====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">The workshop welcomes any research contribution in the form of either a demonstration (submitted as a 2 pages abstract) exhibit or to submit a position paper (8 pages) or regular paper
(12 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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">All ALAW accepted papers (including demonstration abstracts) will be published in a volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) by Springer (to be confirmed).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Selected extended papers will be invited for publication in a leading academic journal (under definition) with the purpose to set up a publication about agents living in augmented worlds
vision, providing an overview about the state-of-the-art, starting from the research and discussion originated during the workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== IMPORTANT DATES =====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Paper submission deadline: May 1st, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Notification of acceptance: May 29th, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Workshop: July 14th, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== SUBMISSION DETAILS =====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Papers can be submitted via EasyChair in PDF format through following link.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" 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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" 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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Regular Papers: 12 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Position Papers: 8 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Demonstrations: 2 pages (abstract)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE =====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Organizers and PC chairs in alphabetical order:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Abraham Campbell, University College Dublin, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Carlos Carrascosa, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Angelo Croatti, University of Bologna, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Gregory O’Hare, University College Dublin, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">===== ALAW @ FAIM 2018 (joint IJCAI/ECAI/AAMAS/ICML conferences)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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