From: Dariusz Krol To: aomicini@deis.unibo.it, Gabriel Ciobanu Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:00:09 +0200 Subject: Invitation to PC of SOMAS 2008 Dear Professor Andrea Omicini, We would like to invite you to be a member of Program Committee of the Special Session on Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/~krol/eng_SOMAS.htm at the 2nd KES International Symposium on AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS - TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS http://amsta-08.kesinternational.org/index.php Your presence in PC will be a great honor and should help the session to achieve its aim with success. The work of a PC member will rely on reviewing papers submitted for the session. We also cordially invite you (and/or) your co-workers to submit a paper to our session. We would appreciate if you could give us your answer not later than October 5, 2007. See attached CFP. Best regards, Dariusz Król Gabriel Ciobanu CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems SOMAS 2008 at 2nd KES International Symposium on AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS - TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS KES AMSTA 2008 26 - 28 March 2008, Inha University, Korea 1. INTRODUCTION The aim of the special session is to bring together, for the first time, researchers working on self-organization and adaptive multi-agent systems as well as to discuss these issues and to present current research results. Topics of submitted papers should focus on MAS concerning both theoretical and application aspects. 2. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS The papers will be reviewed by KES AMSTA International Program Committee. The best submissions will be selected for presentation and will be included in the symposium proceedings. The papers should present original and unpublished research. The symposium proceedings are planned to be published and distributed by Springer-Verlag in series LNCS/LNAI. Submitted papers for SOMAS should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and should be limited to 10 pages. All submissions must be sent electronically using the PROSE software review system. 3. TOPICS OF INTEREST Self-organizing MAS Adaptive agent topology evaluation Data & code propagation Task prefetching Auction based scheduling Nature-inspired systems Cellular and organic grids Agent colonies Agent browsing and evaluation 4. Special session chairs Dariusz Król, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland dariusz.krol (at) pwr.wroc.pl http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/~krol/eng_index.html Gabriel Ciobanu, "A.I.Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania gabriel (at) iit.tuiasi.ro http://www.infoiasi.ro/~gabriel 5. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: 21 Oct 07 Notification of acceptance: 10 Nov 07 Receipt of publication files: 10 Dec 07 ________________________________________ Dariusz Krol, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Institute of Applied Informatics Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/~krol/eng_index.html