SOMAS 2008

 From: Dariusz Krol <dariusz.krol@pwr.wroc.pl>
To: aomicini@deis.unibo.it, Gabriel Ciobanu <gabriel@iit.tuiasi.ro>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:00:09 +0200
Subject: Invitation to PC of SOMAS 2008

Dear Professor Andrea Omicini,

We would like to invite you to be a member of Program Committee of the
Special Session on  Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems
http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/~krol/eng_SOMAS.htm
at the 2nd KES International Symposium on
AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS - TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS
http://amsta-08.kesinternational.org/index.php

Your presence in PC will be a great honor and should help the session to
achieve its aim with success. The work of a PC member will rely on reviewing
papers submitted for the session. We also cordially invite you (and/or) your
co-workers to submit a paper to our session.

We would appreciate if you could give us your answer not later than October
5, 2007.  See attached CFP.

Best regards,

Dariusz Król 
Gabriel Ciobanu

                       CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Session on Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems
                       SOMAS 2008
at
2nd KES International Symposium on
AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS - TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS
                      KES AMSTA 2008
26 - 28 March 2008, Inha University, Korea


1. INTRODUCTION

The aim of the special session is to bring together, for the first time, researchers working on self-organization and adaptive multi-agent systems as well as to discuss these issues and to present current research results. Topics of submitted papers should focus on MAS concerning both theoretical and application aspects.

2. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

The papers will be reviewed by KES AMSTA International Program Committee. The best submissions will be selected for presentation and will be included in the symposium proceedings. The papers should present original and unpublished research. The symposium proceedings are planned to be published and distributed by Springer-Verlag in series LNCS/LNAI. Submitted papers for SOMAS should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and should be limited to 10 pages. All submissions must be sent electronically using the PROSE software review system.

3. TOPICS OF INTEREST

Self-organizing MAS
Adaptive agent topology evaluation
Data & code propagation
Task prefetching
Auction based scheduling
Nature-inspired systems
Cellular and organic grids
Agent colonies
Agent browsing and evaluation

4. Special session chairs

Dariusz Król, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
dariusz.krol (at) pwr.wroc.pl
http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/~krol/eng_index.html

Gabriel Ciobanu, "A.I.Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania
gabriel (at) iit.tuiasi.ro
http://www.infoiasi.ro/~gabriel

5. IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submission: 21 Oct 07
Notification of acceptance: 10 Nov 07
Receipt of publication files: 10 Dec 07

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Dariusz Krol, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institute of Applied Informatics
Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/~krol/eng_index.html