ATPI 2007

 Call for Papers 
Special session on Agent Theories and Practice for Industry

5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics

July 23-26, 2007, Vienna, Austria

http://www.indin2007.org



INDIN 2007 is the 5th International Conference on Industrial Informatics is
sponsored by the Industrial Electronics Society of the IEEE. It aims to
network researchers, academics, engineers, and industry experts to discuss
break-through research, new ideas, recent developments, and new applications
related to industrial informatics. Come and meet other experts in the field,
and benefit from cutting-edge research presentations, personal discussions,
whilst enjoying an exhilarating social program in the charming city of
Vienna.

Special Session Call for Papers

Agents and Multi-agent systems are a very attractive approach for dealing
with complexity and have proved to be successful in many industrial domains.
Building multi-agent systems is still a challenge because very few
guidelines and methodologies exist on the topic. Therefore further advances
are required in formalisms, methodologies and tools to cover multi-agent
systems development process in order to have successful applications
The special session on Agent Theories and Practice for Industry will offer a
forum for discussion and exchange on theoretical and experimental researches
and applications of agents applied to industrial problems and contexts.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

- Agent based software engineering
- Agent architectures and Architectural models
- Multi-agent based modelling and simulation of complex systems
- Coordination and cooperation
- Mobile agents
- Applications of multi-agent systems and cases studies
- Industrial applications of multi-agent systems


Prospective authors are invited to electronically submit a full paper (6
pages, about 4500 words, PDF format) of their original work following the
IEEE instructions available on the website of the conference.

Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic format on the conference
website.


Important Dates
Paper submission            Dec. 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance                 Jan. 15, 2007
Camera Ready Submission   Mar. 15, 2007     


Special Session Chairs
Massimo Cossentino
Université de Technologie de Belfort Montbéliard
Laboratoire Systèmes et Transports
90010 Belfort Cedex
Email : massimo.cossentino@utbm.fr

Abder Koukam
Université de Technologie de Belfort Montbéliard
Laboratoire Systèmes et Transports
90010 Belfort Cedex
Email : abder.koukam@utbm.fr


Program Committee (not completed yet)

Carole Bernon, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, University
Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (France)

Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Birkbeck College, London (UK)

Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Cosenza (Italy)

Alfredo Garro, Università della Calabria, Cosenza (Italy)

Franck Getcher, Université de Technologie de Belfort Montbéliard, Belfort
(France)

Paolo Giorgini, Department of Information and communication Technology,
University of Trento, Trento (Italy)

Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse,
University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (France)

Vincent Hilaire, Université de Technologie de Belfort Montbéliard, Belfort
(France)

Vito Morreale, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Palermo (Italy)

Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)

Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

Luca Sabatucci, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Valeria Seidita, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Salvatore Vitabile, University of Palermo, Palermo (Italy)