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From: Emmanuel ADAM <emmanuel.adam@univ-valenciennes.fr>
To: andrea.omicini@unibo.it
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 17:44:27 +0200
Subject: Workshop SARC2008 ...
Dear Andrea,
We are pleased to inform you that the workshop "Self-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation in Holonic Multi-Agent Systems", submitted to the SASO'08 conference, has been accepted.
As a PC member, we invite you to solicit papers (including papers from your own research group) by circulating the CFP in your mailing list.
The web site of the workshop is located at http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/congres/SARC2008/
(and at another address http://sarc.2008.free.fr/ )
You can find at the end of this e-mail the call-for-paper.
We greatly appreciate your help to make of SARC2008 a great workshop.
Regards,
the SARC-HOLOMAS organizing committee
Emmanuel ADAM, professor assistant, LAMIH, Valenciennes-FRANCE
(main contact : emmanuel.adam@univ-valenciennes.fr)
Vincent HILAIRE, professor assistant, UTBM Belfort-FRANCE
Jean-Pierre MULLER, CIRAD/LIRMM, Montpellier-FRANCE
Paul VALCKENAERS, Senior Researcher, KUL, Leuven-BELGIUM
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_/ SARC2008 _/
_/ First International Workshop on _/
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Located at the Second International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
October 20-24, 2008, Venice, Italy,
http://polaris.ing.unimo.it/saso2008/
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_/ OBJECTIVES _/
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Holonic Multi-Agent Systems, mainly used and developed in manufacturing systems, are more and more used in other fields such as complex system simulations, information systems, cooperative work...
Holonic Multi-Agent Systems are flexible; the only strict obligation is to follow a pyramidal structure. They really have an interesting potential, however, methods and tools to facilitate their design and management, in particular regarding to their Self-Adaptation and Self-Organization properties, are required.
Indeed, the main characteristics of an Holonic Multi-Agent System, that are the robustness and the cooperation, are dependent of the dynamic of the multi-agent system.
Robustness enables Holonic Multi-Agent Systems to cope with perturbations, faults and hard constraints. Implementing such a property is typically a self-organization problem where regeneration of faulty agents, generation of new agents and/or migration of agents between Holonic Multi-Agent Systems are some examples of the proposed answers.
Cooperation means that even if each agent has classically its own goals and strategies in the pyramidal organization, all agents taken together have to collectively lead the Holonic Multi-Agent System to its intended global goal. This property is generally processed by letting the agents locally and autonomously modifying their roles or behaviors, by adapting their strategies to work with other agents; it is a self-adaptation property.
Emergence of behaviors, roles or organization is a reality and a need in Holonic Multi-Agent Systems and has to be analyzed and controlled.
First International Workshop on Self-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation in HOLOMAS proposes a framework to discuss on models and methods linked to robustness and cooperation in dynamic systems, enabling emergence of new behaviors and sub-organizations. The workshop also aims to lead to a proposition of an Holonic Multi-Agent System model including the models discussed.
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_/ TOPICS OF INTEREST _/
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A particular attention will be given to papers which address case studies, and which present self-adaptation or self-organization mechanisms in holonic multi-agent systems.
We seek contributions on ongoing innovative work and applications on robustness and cooperation issues based on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organization capacities, suitable to holonic multi-agent systems.
Specifically, the workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
* holonic multi-agent system
* fault-recovery in holonic multi-agent systems
* models of cooperation and coordination for autonomous holonic agents
* predicting and controlling emergence of behavior in holonic multi-agent systems
* self-adaptation of roles and/or services in holonic multi-agent systems
* delegation tasks, reconfiguration tasks in holonic multi-agent systems
* self-organization of pyramidal-structured holonic multi-agent systems
* case studies that shows self-adaptation or self-organization in holonic multi-agent systems
* aspects of holonic multi-agent systems
* models of self-management for holonic multi-agent systems
* models and meta-models of self-organizing holonic multi-agent systems
* models and meta-models for hybrid multi-agent systems
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_/ IMPORTANT DATES _/
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Paper submission deadline: July 5, 2008
Paper notifications: August 5, 2008
Camera ready paper: September 10, 2008
Workshop: October 20 or 21, 2008 just before the technical tracks of the conference.
*****!!! Workshop attendees are requested to register for the main conference. !!!*****
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_/ Authors Guidelines and Submission _/
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A particular attention will be given to papers which address case studies, and which present self-adaptation or self-organization mechanisms in holonic multi-agent systems.
Each paper will be reviewed by three members of the program committee.
The submission should be 10 pages in length, including figures and references. The paper must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. (http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/index.html)
Submission
Authors can submit their propositions before July 5th 2008, in pdf format, through the EasyChair URL on the web site http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/congres/SARC2008/
// Publication Channels //
The proceedings of SCAR2008 will be published by the IEEE Computer Society on a CD and made available on the IEEE digital library.
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_/ ORGANIZING COMITTEE _/
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Emmanuel Adam (contact),
LAMIH - UMR CNRS 8530, Universite de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambresis - FRANCE
Email: emmanuel.adam@univ-valenciennes.fr
Vincent Hilaire
SET - UTBM Belfort France
Email: vincent.hilaire@utbm.fr
Jean-Pierre Muller
CIRAD jean-pierre.muller@cirad.fr
LIRMM jean-pierre.muller@lirmm.fr
Montpellier, FRANCE
Paul Valckenaers
Division of Production Engineering, Machine Design and Automation (PMA)
KUL, Leuven, Belgium
email : Paul.Valckenaers@mech.kuleuven.be
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_/ PROGRAM COMITTEE _/
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Jose Barata, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Carole Bernon, IRIT Toulouse, France
Valerie Camps, IRIT Toulouse, France
Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University, Nederlands
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italie
Salima Hassas, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Paulo Leitao, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal
Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Viviana Mascardi, Universita di Genova, Italy
Andrea Omicini, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Olga Pacheco, University of Minho, Portugal
Gauthier Picard, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Leon Van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece
Valeriy Vyatkin, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Alois Zoitl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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