CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation IX (ABC:MI; http://www.fedcsis.org/abcmi)
Wrocław, Poland, September 9-12, 2012
Organized in technical cooperation with COST Action IC0801 "Agreement Technologies" (http://www.agreement-technologies.eu/)
The field of agent technology is rapidly maturing. One of key factors that influence this process is the gathered body of knowledge that allows in-depth reflection on the very nature of designing and implementing agent systems. As a result, we know better how to design and implement them. We also understand the most important issues to be addressed in the process. Therefore, on the top-most level we see progress in development of methodologies for design of agent-based systems. Furthermore, these methodologies are usually supported by tools that allow not only top level conceptualization but guide the process towards implementation (e.g. by generating at least some code). Next, we can see that new languages for agent based systems are created, e.g. AML or API Calculus. Separately, tools / platforms / environments that can be used for design and implementation of agent systems have been through a number of releases, eliminating problems and adding new, important features. Resu
lting products are becoming truly robust and flexible. Furthermore, open source products (e.g. JADE) are surrounded by user communities, which often generate powerful add-on components, further increasing value of existing solutions.
Topics
During the Workshop we are primarily interested in all aspects of the process that leads from the model of the problem domain to the actual agent-based solution. These aspects will cover both principled approaches and established practices of software engineering aimed at producing high quality software. In this context, research into the application of agent-based solutions to key challenges faced by software engineering (e.g. reduction of costs and delivery times, coping with a larger diversity of problems) will be of primary importance.
ABC:MI Workshop welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of software agent engineering.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Methodologies for design of agent systems
- Multi-agent systems product lines
- Modeling agent systems
- Agent architectures
- Agent-based simulations
- Simulating and verifying agent systems
- Agent benchmarking and performance measurement
- Agent communication, coordination and cooperation
- Agent languages
- Agent learning and planning
- Agent mobility
- Agent modeling, calculi, and logic
- Agent security
- Agents and Service Oriented Computing
- Agents in the Semantic Web
- Applications and Experiences
Paper Submission and Publication
* Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file).
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages (IEEE style). IEEE style templates are available at the workshop WWW site.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
* Accepted and Presented papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore® database. They will be also submitted for indexation in: DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Google Scholar, Inspec, Scirus, SciVerse Scopus and Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index
* Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be invited to the Special Issue of the Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience journal (www.scpe.org), as well as to other journal(s) to be announced later.
* Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS events.
Important Dates
## Paper submission: April 22, 2012
## Author notification: June 17, 2012
## Final submission and registration: July 8, 2012
## Conference date: September 9-12, 2012
Program Committee
^ Agotnes, Thomas, University of Bergen, Norway
^ Al-Maliky, Sattar, University of Babilon, Iraq
^ Amamiya, Makoto, Osaka Institute of Technology and Kyushu University, Japan
^ Balke, Tina, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
^ Braubach, Lars, University of Hamburg, Germany
^ Bresciani, Paolo, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
^ Budimac, Zoran, Facultu of Sciences, Univ. of Novi Sad , Serbia
^ Cabri, Giacomo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
^ Carlsson, Bengt, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
^ Cervenka, Radovan, Whitsetein Technologies, Slovakia
^ Cetnarowicz, Krzysztof, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
^ Czarnowski, Ireneusz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
^ Elammari, Mohamed, University of Benghazi, Libya
^ Eleftherakis, George, CITY College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield, Greece
^ Essaaidi, Mohammad, National Higher School of IT (ENSIAS), Morocco
^ Garcia-Fornes, Ana, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
^ Goncalves, Ricardo, Uninova, Portugal
^ Gorodetsky, Vladimir, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia
^ Gourd, Jean, Louisiana Tech University, United States
^ Greenwood, Dominic, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland
^ Hinchey, Mike, Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland
^ Ivanović, Mirjana, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
^ Jedrzejowicz, Piotr, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
^ Jezic, Gordan, University of Zagreb, Croatia
^ Kruczkiewicz, Zofia, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
^ Laclavik, Michal, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
^ Loreti, Michele, Univerità di Firenze, Italy
^ Luetzenberger, Marco, DAI-Labor, TU-Berlin, Germany
^ Mangioni, Giuseppe, DIEEI - University of Catania, Italy
^ Meneguzzi, Felipe, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
^ Morge, Maxime, Université Lille 1, France
^ Negru, Viorel, West University of Timisoara, Romania
^ Novak, Peter, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
^ Nowostawski, Mariusz, University of Otago, Information Science Department, New Zealand
^ Omicini, Andrea, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy
^ Oren, Nir, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
^ Ossowski, Sascha, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
^ Poggi, Agostino, DII - University of Parma, Afghanistan
^ Pokahr, Alexander, University of Hamburg
^ Pop, Florin, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Computer Science Department, Romania
^ Puviani, Mariachiara, Universtià degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia - DISMI, Italy
^ Rykowski, Jarogniew, the Poznan University of Economics, Poland
^ Senatore, Sabrina, University of Salerno, Italy
^ Slavkovik, Marija, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
^ Stanek, Stanislaw, General Tadeusz Kosciuszko Military Academy of Land Forces in Wrocław, Poland
^ Tang, Yuqing, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
^ Taveter, Kuldar, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
^ ter Mors, Adriaan, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
^ Torroni, Paolo, University of Bologna, Italy
^ Trcek, Denis, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
^ Troquard, Nicolas, ISTC-CNR, Italy
^ Tucci, Salvatore, University of Rome at Torvergata, Italy
^ Uszok, Andrzej, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, United States
^ Vasiliu, Laurentiu, DERI, NUIG, Ireland
^ Venticinque, Salvatore, Second University of Naples, Italy
^ Wahjudi, Paulus, Marshall Unviersity, United States
Event Chairs
+ Badica, Costin, University of Craiova, Romania
+ Ganzha, Maria, University of Gdansk and IBS PAN, Poland
+ Paprzycki, Marcin, WSM and IBS PAN, Poland
+ Rahimi, Shahram, Southern Illinois University, United States
Email to the Event Chairs : abcmi2012@fedcsis.org
