AOMS 2007

 CFP

AOMS@IJCAI’07
Agent Organizations: Models and Simulations 
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The ability to adequately capture the elements and intricacies of complex organizations is challenging. In the last years important advances have been made in the area of agent-based social simulation (ABSS). ABSS provides an explicit representation of actors in a social or organizational domain as agents that have complex mental properties and modes of interaction.  The use of agent based models and simulation to formally capture and understand organizations has already yielded positive results and promises further tremendous potential. 
On the other hand, people in the field of MAS look at naturally occurring organizations, as a means to structure MAS. Agent organizations can be understood as complex entities where a multitude of agents interact, within a structured environment aiming at some global purpose. The view of coordination and control has to be expanded to consider not only an agent-centric perspective but mostly take a societal and organization-centric focus.  Agent organizations demand the integration of organizational, intermediate level and individual perspectives, the dynamic adaptation of models to organizational and environmental changes, and rely for a great extent on the notion of openness and heterogeneity of MAS.
By bringing together different communities such as agent organization modeling, ABSS, computational organizational simulation, social simulation and cognitive science, this workshop aims at discussing the intersections of the different topics, cross fertilization and sharing of experiences and as such extending the overall research on organizations. The outcome of this cross fertilization should be realistic, formal multi-agent organization models and corresponding simulations. MAS design languages can provide structures for developing organizational models, but will also provide insight on how natural organizations may be augmented or enhanced. The tools needed for modeling, simulating organizations and work practices and developing intelligent agent systems will provide new insights into organization theory.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Engineering organizational coordination
Application of  organizational theory to MAS 
Modeling multi-agent organizations 
Social aspects of MAS
Organization design, monitoring, and adaptation
Languages and tools for simulation of agent organizations
Dynamic, adaptive and emergent organizational structures and dynamics
Communication and interaction in agent organizations
Scaling and control issues in agent organizations
Simulation, analysis and verification of dynamics of multi-agent organizations 
Practical implementations of agent organization simulation
Usable formalisations of organizational concepts
Important dates
September 25, 2006	deadline for Submission of contributions to workshops
October 23, 2006 	Workshop paper acceptance notification 
January 6-8, 2007	IJCAI-07 Workshops     
Preparation and submission of papers 
Please follow the template specified by Springer for the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series ( HYPERLINK "http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html" http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The length of each paper including figures and references must not exceed 12 pages. All papers must be submitted in PDF format to Virginia Dignum (virginia@cs.uu.nl)
Submission of a paper signifies that, upon acceptance, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work. More details on registration will appear in due time in the IJCAI-07 webpage ( HYPERLINK "http://www.ijcai-07.org/" http://www.ijcai-07.org/). 
Program Committee
Mark Ackerman, University, of Michigan, USA
William Clancey, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Rosaria Conte, CNR & University of Siena, Italy 
Ulises Cortés, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain
Scott DeLoach, Kansas State University, USA
Ed Durfee, University of Michigan, USA
Marie-Pierre Gleizes, IRIT, France
Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas, USA
Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA
Andre Meyer, TNO, The Netherlands
Scott Moss, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Pablo Noriega, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Tim Norman, Univ. Aberdeen, UK
Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy
Sascha Ossowski University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Julian Padget University of Bath, UK
Paul Scerri, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Jaime Sichman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Liz Sonenberg, University of Melbourne, Australia
Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Catherine Tessier, ONERA, France   
Organizing Committee
Virginia Dignum 
Dept. of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht,  e-mail: virginia@cs.uu.nl
Eric Matson 
Wright State University, e-mail: eric.matson@wright.edu
Bruce Edmonds 
Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University, e-mail: bruce@edmonds.name 
Frank Dignum,
Dept. of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht,e-mail: dignum@cs.uu.nl