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From: paolo petta <paolo@ofai.at>
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Cc: paolo@oefai.at, mueller@in.tu-clausthal.de
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:12:18 +0100
Subject: Call for papers: AT2AI-5
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AT2AI-5
Fifth International Symposium
"From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation"
April 20-21, 2006, Vienna, Austria (EU)
Chairs: Jrg Mller and Paolo Petta
<URL: http://www.ofai.at/~paolo.petta/conf/at2ai5/>
at the 18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
(EMCSR 2006)
<URL:http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/>
April 18 - 21, 2006, Vienna, Austria (EU)
Submission deadline: December 2, 2005
(This deadline DIFFERS from the default EMCSR deadline of November 11, 2005)
Table of contents
* Introduction
* Organisation
* Submission Details
* Important Dates
* Further Information
Introduction:
Since its first edition in 1998, the symposium series "From Agent
Theory to Agent Implementation" has been not only documenting the
progress in agent-related technologies, but also managed to contribute
to the rapid development of this area. AT2AI actively promotes the
exchange of ideas and experiences between researchers and
practitioners working on the whole range of theoretical and
application-oriented issues of agent technology, covering both the
micro and macro aspects of agent design and the transition from
drawing boards and partly idealised models, over modelling tools and
frameworks, to deployment, configuration and maintenance of
implementations.
AT2AI-3 (http://www.ofai.at/~paolo.petta/conf/at2ai3/)
produced a first blueprint of a layered ecology of technologies for
the development of agent based applications (cf. the editorial of
Applied Artificial Intelligence 16(9-10), 2003). This perspective
considers middleware, tools, off-the shelf platforms, integrated
development environments (IDEs), and the like, with respect to their
practical value to improve the applications delivered. The qualities
of these support technologies can in turn be improved and better
exploited with the design of architectural frameworks and the
deployment of standards. The evolution of these in turn can be
assisted by the development of sound theoretical foundations and
related formal methods. Methodologies are considered as working
know-that and know-how, capturing and maintaining the best practises
how to identify, align, and process application- and
environment-derived (bottom-up) and support technology related
(top-down) requirements and options.
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AT2AI-4 (http://www.ofai.at/~paolo.petta/conf/at2ai4/)
produced an updated inventory against the maturing field: the status
of logic-based approaches was addressed in particular in the
discussions; but evidence was also provided for how routine
consideration of a multitude of perspectives is approaching the
requirements posed by serious application needs (including e.g. issues
of privacy and flexible access right management). Results have been
collected in the forthcoming double issue of Applied AI 20(4-5),
2006 (April).
The present edition of AT2AI gets further leverage by the significant
work originated in the AgentLink III Technical Forum Group on
Programming Multi-Agent Systems (PROMAS). The topics of discussion
addressed there bear an immediate close relationship to the main
concerns of AT2AI.
Of particular relevance to the symposium is work that provides
insights on experiences and lessons learnt when applying specific
agent theories or architectures to application problems, and that
discusses methods, methodologies, and other tools that can help system
designers to successfully accomplish the mapping between available
agent technology on the one hand, and application problems on the
other.
Topics of interest therefore include:
* Conceptual and theoretical foundations
* Agent languages and architectures
* Learning and adaptability
* Communication, coordination and collaboration
* Social issues in agent societies
* Safety, security, and responsibility
* Granularities of system design (single-agent, multi-agent, ant ...)
* Agents vs. Middleware
* Development and engineering methodologies
* User interfaces and usability
* Testbeds and evaluations
* Applications of agent technology in routine use
Submissions should cast the presentation in terms of the above
schema (or proposed well-founded changes to it). As the previous
editions of AT2AI (in 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004) have shown, this
is a significant aid for the workshop audience to grasp more
readily the significance of the work presented and relate it to
their own activities: the quality and variety of feedback provided
to authors improves accordingly, often leading to persisting
fruitful contacts.
Organisation:
Session Chairs:
Jrg P. Mller mueller @AT@ in.tu-clausthal.de
Paolo Petta Paolo.Petta@ofai.at
Submission Details:
For details on how to prepare draft papers, see the submission
guidelines for the main EMCSR conference published on the
EMCSR 2006 homepage (<URL:http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/>).
Please note that the submission deadline of AT2AI-5 differs from the
one specified for EMCSR.
Accepted Papers:
Authors of accepted papers will be notified after December 16, 2005;
the list will also be published on the AT2AI-5 web site. After the
event, a second round of more extensive reviews is planned which is to
lead to the publication of extended versions of selected contributions
in an edited collection.
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: December 2, 2005
Notifications of acceptance/rejection: after December 19, 2005
Camera-ready copies due: January 30, 2006
Early registration deadline: January 30, 2006
Symposium date: April 20-21, 2006
Further Information:
For further information, please see the EMCSR 2006 Web site:
<URL:http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/>