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Subject: [cormas-announcement] : Multi-Agents for modeling Complex Systems (MA4CS'06) @ECCS'06, Oxford (short deadline!)
From: Francois Bousquet (bousquet_fra@yahoo.fr)
Date: Mon Jun 19 2006 - 11:43:02 CEST
>
> Call for Papers
>
>
> Multi-Agents for modeling Complex Systems (MA4CS'06)
>
> http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~hassas/MA4CS/index.html
>
> Satellite Workshop of
> the European Conference on Complex Systems 2006 (ECCS '06)
>
> http://complexsystems.lri.fr/Portal/tiki-index.php?page=ECCS%2706&bl
>
>
> Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
> 25-29 September 2006
>
>
> PRESENTATION
>
> The Multi-Agents paradigm is more and more used as a tool for modeling,
> simulating or programming complex systems, in different disciplines:
> mechanics, economy, urbanism, sociology, biology, computer science, etc.
>
> The Complex Systems field of research focuses on the study of systems
> that exhibit complexity as a phenomenon inherent to the system's
> nature. The system is considered as a dynamic network of interacting
> entities, where its global behavior and organization are obtained
> through a non linear aggregation of the local behaviors of its
> components. The system is thus considered through the perspective of
> its dynamics and organization.
>
> The Multi-Agents (MAS) field of research, while being often considered
> as a sub-domain of AI, is influenced by many disciplines outside AI.
> These disciplines include Biology, Ethology, Sociology, Economics,
> Organization and Management Science, Complex Systems, and Philosophy.
> Today MAS research activity covers different fields of computer
> science: software engineering, AI, networks, distributed systems, etc.
> The MAS research focuses on the study of communications languages,
> interaction protocols, multi-agents architectures and methodologies,
> operational and theoretical models that facilitate the development of
> systems designed as a set of autonomous interacting entities (called
> agents), invested in the achievement of a collective task. Many work has
> been achieved in the multi-agents domain. Multi-agents applications are
> developped at a large scale in different domains, but more efforts need
> to be made to come up with theoretically grounded models or assessed
> methodologies for modelling and programming complex systems using the
> multi-agents paradigm.
>
> This workshop aims to bring together researchers from MAS and Complex
> Systems domains, in order to cross-fertilize research held in both
> fields, and come up with, theories, tools, formal or/and operational
> models and methodologies for MAS approaches dedicated to complex
> systems. This workshop welcomes papers submission from both mature work
> and work in progress that contribute to cover one topic or more from
> the topics of interest below. Contributions that could help to better
> understand why multi-agents succeed in modelling complex systems where
> other pardigms or tools fail are particularly encouraged. We encourage
> also, contributions on viewing multi-agents as complex systems, and on
> the use of theories and advances in complex systems field for
> multi-agents modelling.
>
> The first edition of the MA4CS
> (http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~hassas//MA4CS/MA4CS05.html) workshop has
> focused on both MAS systems and simulations. This 2nd edition of MA4CS
> intends to focus on the important issue of control and/or governance
> of complex systems based on multi-agents modeling.
>
>
> TOPICS
>
> The main topics of interest include but are not restricted to:
>
> * Multi-agents based simulation of complex systems,
> * Self-organizing mechanisms in MAS
> * Operational models for self-organizating systems
> * Dynamics and emergent organizations in MAS
> * Co-evolution of organizations in a MAS
> * MAS based modeling of bio-inspired systems and systems inspired by
> nature
> * Tools and methodologies for multi-agents modeling of complex systems,
> * Formal models and theories of multi-agents modeling of complex
> systems,
> * Applications of MAS based modeling in complex systems
> * Complexity and emergence control/management in MAS
> SUBMISSION
>
> The submission should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer-Verlag LNCS
> style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). It must be sent
> either in PostScript or PDF format to the Scientific Organizers (Salima
> Hassas or Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo).
>
> All accepted papers will be available on the day of the workshop in a
> set of working notes.
> Based on the quality of submitted papers, we inted to organize a
> Special Issue of the ACM Transaction on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
> Journal (TAAS) where extended versions of selected papers from this
> workshop will be considered for publication.
>
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
>
> Abstract submission deadline (intention of submission) : July 10th, 2006
> Paper submission deadline : July 20th, 2006
> Notification of acceptance : September 5, 2006
> Camera ready due : September 15th, 2006
> Workshop (the workshop day is not fixed yet): 1 day between September
> 25-29, 2006
>
>
> Workshop Chairs
>
> Salima Hassas,
> University of Lyon 1, France
> http://liris.cnrs.fr/salima.hassas
> hassas at liris dot cnrs dot fr
>
> Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo,
> Birkbeck University of London, UK
> http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~dimarzo
> Giovanna.Dimarzo at dcs dot bbk dot ac dot uk
>
> Program Committee ( to be completed)
>
> Sven Brueckner , Altarum Institute, Ann Arbor, USA
> Vincent Chevrier , LORIA- Universite H Poincare, Nancy 1 France
> Jordi Delgado, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
> Philippe De Wilde, Imperial College London, UK
> Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
> Amal El Fallah Seghrouchn, LIP6, Univ. Paris X, France
> Noria Foukia , University of Otago, New Zealand
> Maria Gini , University of Minnesota, USA
> Marie-Pierre Gleize, IRIT Toulouse, France
> Mark Jelasity, University of Bologna, Italy
> Anthony Kargeorgos, University of Thessaly, Greece
> Philippe Massonet, CETIC, Belgium
> Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy
> Paul Valckenaers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
> Dan Yamins, Harvard University, USA
>
> --
>
>
> Regards.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Bruce Edmonds,
> Centre for Policy Modelling,
> Manchester Metropolitan University, Aytoun Bldg.,
> Aytoun Street, Manchester, M1 3GH. UK.
> Tel: +44 161 247 6479
> http://bruce.edmonds.name
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