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PROMAS 2007 — Call for Papers 5th International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS 2007, Honolulu, HI (USA) — Tuesday 15 May 2007 Source: e-mail call from Michael Winikoff <winikoff@cs.rmit.edu.au>, Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:54:19 +0100 CALL FOR PAPERS: ProMAS'07 Fifth International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS'07) <http://www.cs.uu.nl/ProMAS/> ProMAS'07 is a satellite workshop at AAMAS 2007 Hawaii, USA, 14-18 May 2007 <http://www.aamas2007.org/> Even though the contributions of the multi-agent systems (MAS) community can make a significant impact in the development of open distributed systems, the techniques resulting from such contributions will only be widely adopted when suitable programming languages and development tools are available. Furthermore, such languages and tools must incorporate those techniques in a principled but practical way, so as to support the ever more complex task of professional programmers, in particular when the systems have to operate in dynamic environments. The ProMAS workshop series aims to address the theoretical and practical programming issues related to developing and deploying multi-agent systems. In particular, ProMAS aims to address how multi-agent systems designs or specifications can be effectively implemented. In its previous editions, ProMAS constituted an invaluable occasion bringing together leading researchers from both academia and industry to discuss issues on the design of programming languages and tools for multi-agent systems. In particular, the workshop promotes the discussion and exchange of ideas concerning the techniques, concepts, requirements, and principles that are important for multi-agent programming technology. We encourage the submission of proposals for programming languages and development tools that provide specific programming constructs to facilitate the implementation of the essential concepts used in multi-agent system analysis and specifications (e.g., mental attitudes, distribution, and social interaction). We also welcome submissions describing significant multi-agent applications, as well as agent programming tools that allow the integration of agents with legacy systems. Further, we are particularly interested in approaches or applications that show clearly the added-value of multi-agent programming, and explain why and how this technology should be adopted by designers and programmers both in academia and industry. Specific topics for this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Programming Languages for multi-agent systems - Extensions of traditional languages for multi-agent programming - Theoretical and practical aspects of multi-agent programming - Computational complexity of MAS - Semantics for multi-agent programming languages - High-level executable multi-agent specification languages - Algorithms, techniques, or protocols for multi-agent issues (e.g., coordination, cooperation, negotiation) - Agent communication issues in multi-agent programming - Implementation of social and organisational aspects of MAS - Formal methods for specification and verification of MAS - Verification tools for implementations of MAS - Test and debugging tools and techniques - Agent development tools and platforms - Generic tools and infrastructures for multi-agent programming - Interoperability and standards for MAS - Programming mobile agents - Safety and security for mobile MAS deployment - Fault tolerance and load balancing for mobile MAS - Application areas for multi-agent programming languages - Applications using legacy systems - Programming MAS for Grid-based applications - Programming MAS for the Semantic Web - Deployed (industrial-strength) MAS - Benchmarks and testbeds for comparing MAS languages and tools Important Dates: ---------------- Paper submission deadline: 5 February, 2007 Notifications of acceptance/rejection: 5 March, 2007 Camera-ready copies due: 19 March, 2007 Workshop Date: 14th/15th May, 2007 (TBA) Submission Details: ------------------- Authors can submit their papers via a conference management system, available at the following address: http://confs.deis-ce.unibo.it/ProMAS07 First, you will be asked to register into the system, then you will get a user id and a password that you can use to submit your paper. Papers should be formatted using Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and have a maximum of 15 pages. Accepted papers will be published as a technical report and distributed among participants during the workshop. As was the case for previous editions of the ProMAS workshop, we are planning to publish extended versions of selected papers as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag. Organising Committee: --------------------- - Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) http://www.cs.uu.nl/~mehdi - Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (University of Paris VI, France) http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~elfallah/ - Alessandro Ricci (DEIS, Universita' di Bologna, Italy) http://lia.deis.unibo.it/~ari - Michael Winikoff (RMIT University, Australia) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~winikoff Steering Committee: --------------------- - Rafael Bordini (University of Durham, UK) - Juergen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail was delivered to you by event [at] tu-clausthal.de, what is a moderated list run by Computational Intelligence Group of Clausthal University of Technology, Germany. In the case of any requests, questions, or comments, do not hesitate and contact the list administrator event-request [at] tu-clausthal.de ASAP. 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