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From: Emmanuel ADAM <emmanuel.adam@univ-valenciennes.fr> To: andrea.omicini@unibo.it Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:33:47 +0200 Subject: Workshop SARC'2009 ... Dear Andrea, We are pleased to inform you that the workshop "Self-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation in Holonic MultiAgent Systems and in MultiAgent Systems", submitted to the SASO'09 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 laboratory, in your mailing list. The web site of the workshop is located at http://sarc.workshop.free.fr/2009/ You can find at the end of this e-mail the call-for-paper. We greatly appreciate your help to make of SARC2009 a great workshop. Regards, the SARC'2009 organizing committee Emmanuel ADAM, professor assistant, LAMIH, Valenciennes-FRANCE (main contact : emmanuel.adam@univ-valenciennes.fr) Vincent HILAIRE, professor assistant, UTBM Belfort-FRANCE Paulo LEITAO, Coordinator Professor, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança-PORTUGAL Paul VALCKENAERS, Senior Researcher, KUL, Leuven-BELGIUM ------------------------------------------------------------------ Second international workshop on Self-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation in Holonic Multi-Agent Systems and Multi-Agent Systems (SARC'09) --------------- Located at the Third IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Location: San Francisco, California, September 14-18, 2009 --- OBJECTIVES 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. --- Second International Workshop on Self-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation proposes a framework to discuss on models and methods linked to robustness and cooperation in holonic multi-agent systems, and multi-agent systems, enabling emergence of new behaviors and sub-organizations. The workshop also aims to establish links between searchers that come from the Information Technologies field and searchers working in the holonic manufacturing systems domain. --- TOPICS OF INTEREST We seek contributions on ongoing innovative work and applications on robustness and cooperation issues in multi-agent system based on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organization capacities. 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, * 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. Further information are accessible on : http://sarc.workshop.free.fr/2009/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Ce message a �t� v�rifi� par MailScanner pour des virus ou des polluriels et rien de suspect n'a �t� trouv�.