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From: Vouros George <georgev@aegean.gr> To: Vouros George <georgev@aegean.gr> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:19:30 +0200 Subject: 2nd CfP : "Organised Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems" (OAMAS 08) Apologies for cross posting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- International Workshop on "Organised Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems" (OAMAS 08), May 12 or 13, 2008, Estoril, Portugal. To be held with AAMAS 08 http://oamas08.iit.demokritos.gr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- AIMS & SCOPE: Multi-agent systems (MAS) such as formal organizations, electronic institutions and computational economies, often have to adapt in order to reflect, among others, environmental, social and economic changes in them. Adaptation may take place in several levels. The environment of a MAS may need to be reorganised by introducing or removing new resources to make the operation of the MAS more efficient. Changes in the MAS environment may cause the existing members of the MAS to be re-organized: existing members leave the MAS, new agents are introduced, or the current members are allocated to different roles. The roles themselves may be the subject of adaptation as the eligibility conditions for occupying a role, and/or the permissions, obligations, authorities, entitlements, responsibilities, institutional powers, and other normative positions that are associated with a role, may be subject to adaptation. We welcome high-quality, original contributions that address issues of organized adaptation in a MAS, as opposed to unintended, emergent modification of a MAS. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -Organizational models of adaptive MAS. -Methodologies for analysis, design and development of adaptive MAS. -Formal models of norm (policy, law) change. -Practical engineering issues of norm (policy, law) change. -Protocols and procedures for carrying out adaptation. -Cooperative human-agent models of adaptation. -Evaluating methods of adaptation in a MAS. -Simulations of adaptive MAS. -Real-world applications of adaptive MAS. -Scalability in adaptive MAS. -Legal implications of adaptation. -Agent architectures for adaptive MAS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission Deadline: January 25, 2008 * Acceptance/Rejection Notification: February 25, 2008 * Camera-Ready Copies: March 7, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- SUBMISSION: There is a plan to publish the accepted papers as a Springer LNAI volume. We welcome both short papers (eg, position statements), ranging between 4-8 pages, and full papers, not exceeding 16 pages. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNAI guidelines. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ORGANISERS: - George Vouros, (University of the Aegean, Greece) - Alexander Artikis, (NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece) - Kostas Stathis, (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) - Jeremy Pitt, (Imperial College London, UK)