IASSE 2008

 Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Convention 2008
AISB 2008 Aberdeen, SCOTLAND, April 1-4
IASSE 2008 - Intelligent Agents and Services for Smart Environments
(http://lidet.ime.usp.br/CFPAISB08.htm)

April 4th 2008
Aberdeen, Scotland
(as part of the AISB 2008 Convention)
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A smart environment is endowed with autonomous behaviour. It can sense  
what occurs within itself and its surroundings, and adapts its actions  
accordingly.

Intelligent multiagent systems and Semantic Web Services constitute  
relevant technologies to design and implement smart environments. They  
provide for decentralised and robust platforms upon which autonomous  
software modules can interact with themselves and with sensors and  
actuators.

Among the challenges related to the design and implementation of smart  
environments, we highlight:

· Technical requirements related to real-time response using  
heterogeneous devices with possibly limited storage and processing  
capabilities.

·  Socio-technical requirements due to smart environments being  
inhabited by humans, who typically produce partially reliable  
information.

· Ethical requirements related to smart environments interfering  
directly with social activities. Data collected by smart environments  
can raise privacy and ownership issues.

Applications of smart environments are many and diverse: they can be  
employed to enhance the human experience in interacting with systems  
for entertainment, arts and culture, public services and education.

This workshop is devoted to the exploration of multiagent systems and  
Semantic Web Services to support the design and implementation of  
smart environments. We are interested in theoretical and foundational  
issues, as well as project reports of practical applications.

All contributions related to these issues are welcome.

Submission and Publication Details

Submitted contributions shall be sent by electronic mail to (fcs at  
ime dot usp dot br). All articles shall be sent electronically as PDF  
files to this address. Text editor templates can be found at
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html 

We request that submitted papers are limited to eight pages.

Selected papers will be published in the general proceedings of the  
AISB Convention, as long as at least one author comes to the workshop  
to present the paper and participate in the discussions and workshop  
activities.

A special issue of the International Journal of Knowledge-Based and  
Intelligent Engineering Systems shall be devoted to the same topic of  
this workshop, and the authors of the best workshop papers will be  
invited to submit extended versions of their papers to the journal  
special issue.

AISB 2008 is going to award a Best Student Paper Prize, as well as a  
few student scholarships. Further details can be found at
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/scholarships.html 

Important Dates

- Submission deadline: January 7th 2008
- Notification of acceptance: February 15th 2008
- Final version due: February 28th 2008
- Symposium: April 4th 2008

Chairs:

Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva (fcs at ime dot usp dot br)
Department of Computer Science
University of São Paulo
Rua do Matão, 1010 – São Paulo (SP) BRAZIL 05504-090
Phone: (+55-11)30916135 Fax: (+55-11)30916134

Stefania Bandini (stefania dot bandini at csai dot disco dot unimib  
dot it)
Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence research center
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8 – Milano ITALY 20126
Phone: (+39)0264487835 Fax: (+39)0264487880

Programme Committee
(+) Stefania BANDINI – University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY
(+) Flávio Soares CORRÊA DA SILVA – University of São Paulo, BRAZIL
(+) Suresh MANANDHAR – University of York, UK
(+) Andrea OMICINI - University of Bologna, ITALY
(+) Matteo PALMONARI - University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY
(+) David Stuart ROBERTSON – University of Edinburgh , UK
(+) Michael SCHUMACHER - University of Applied Sciences, SWITZERLAND
(+) Danny WEYNS - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BELGIUM
(+) Evelyne VIEGAS – Microsoft Research, USA
(+) Giuseppe VIZZARI – University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY