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Subject: [E-CFP] Call for Papers: ESAW 01 Workshop
From: Olivier BARRETEAU (barreteau@montpellier.cemagref.fr)
Date: mer mai 02 2001 - 18:20:03 CEST
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> 2nd International WORKSHOP
> ENGINEERING SOCIETIES in the AGENTS' WORLD
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> ESAW'01
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> http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW01/
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> 7 July 2001, Czech Technical University, Prague (Czech Republic)
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> Co-located with the
>Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence (ACAI-01), incorporating the
> Third European Agent Systems Summer School (2-13 July 2001)
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> The Second AgentLink II General Meeting (9-11 July 2001)
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> Deadline for Submission: 14 May 2001
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>The ESAW workshop series is the result of a collaboration promoted by
>AgentLink, the European Network of Excellence on Agent-Based
>Computing. The organizers of the present edition wish to acknowledge
>the permission granted to mark the event with the AgentLink II seal of
>quality. This event is also supported by the Austrian Society for
>Artificial Intelligence, ÖGAI.
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>AIMS & SCOPE
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>As we are moving rapidly into the age of ubiquitous and persistent
>information services, the pressure on information technology designers
>and implementors is mounting steadily to provide sustainable solutions
>for the deployment, utilization and regulation of computational
>infrastructures that pose unheard of challenges in terms of
>quantitative as well as qualitative dimensions. This state of affairs
>is reflected in the inflationary explosion of "ilities" and iQuos
>populating system-wide requirement lists, when little is still known
>about such fundamental design criteria as whether any of these
>properties can be introduced gradually into existing environments or
>whether "cannot be added after the fact" spells out an unrelenting
>basic tenet of the game.
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>Pursuit of the mission to foster and maintain communication across
>this variegated landscape is as indispensable as it poses an exciting
>challenge by itself, at a time where disparate approaches to tackle
>this grand challenge develop at a flabbergasting pace under the guises
>of novel coordination sciences; grids trying to harness lessons of
>good engineering; service-providing interaction intermediaries;
>analyses of situated activity and research in the social sciences;
>abductively derived multi-MAS infrastructures; extensions of proven
>object-oriented best practices so as to get a handle on interaction;
>or application-driven industrial entries.
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>The sequel to last year's highly successful first edition, and with
>the intent to contribute significantly to maintain the momentum
>established with recent publications such as the special volume of
>Applied Artificial Intelligence on Coordination (15(1), 2001); the
>post-proceedings of ESAW'00 (Springer-Verlag LNAI 1972); and the book
>on Coordination of Internet Agents (Springer-Verlag, 2001); ESAW 01
>remains committed to the use of the notion of multi-agent systems as
>seed for animated constructive discussions of high quality about
>technologies, methodologies, and models for the engineering of complex
>distributed applications. Focussing on social aspects of MAS, the
>workshop places an emphasis on technology and methodology issues,
>while also welcoming theoretical and empirical contributions with
>well-documented connections to these core subjects.
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>TOPICS OF INTEREST therefore include:
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>* coordination models and technologies for engineering of agent societies
>* analysis, design, development and verification of agent societies
>* engineering social intelligence and emergent behaviours in MAS
>* application experiences in building agent societies
>* centralised vs. decentralised social control
>* interaction-coordination patterns in agent societies
>* security and mobility issues in agent societies
>* enabling infrastructures for agent societies
>* visibility and individuality of agents
>* methodologies, tools and artifacts for engineering agent societies
>* design vs. self-organisation
>* insightful analyses of negative results
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>SUBMISSION MODALITIES
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>Contributions should not exceed 12 pages and should be formatted
>according to the LNCS/LNAI style guide:
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> http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
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>Only electronic submission is allowed. Submissions are accepted only
>as documents in Postscript or PDF which have to be printable on a
>standard printer on common paper formats like letter and DIN
>A4. Please use a Postscript previewer such as Ghostview to check the
>portability of Postscript documents. The only acceptable compression
>format for submissions is Zip-Format.
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>Please send your contribution to:
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> Robert Tolksdorf
> mailto:tolk@cs.tu-berlin.de
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>DEADLINES
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>Submissions : 14 May, 2001
>Notifications of acceptance : 7 June, 2001
>Camera-ready final papers : 21 June, 2001
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>WORKING NOTES AND POST-PROCEEDINGS
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>The revised versions of accepted papers will be collected in the
>ESAW'01 Working Notes. Working Notes with all accepted contributions
>will be available at the workshop.
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>As for the first workshop edition (LNAI 1972), post-proceedings will
>be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes on
>Artificial Intelligence series. Authors of papers presented at the
>workshop will be invited to extend their contribution, possibly
>incorporating the results of the workshop discussion, to be included
>in the workshop's post-proceedings.
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>WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
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>ESAW 01 will take place on the 7th of July, 2001 at Czech Technical
>University, in Prague. The workshop will be held in conjunction with
>Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence (ACAI-01), incorporating
>the Third European Agent Systems Summer School, and with an
>AgentLink II General Meeting. The organisers welcome and encourage
>submission of original papers, promoting and soliciting the discussion
>on the key topics among workshop attendants. To further encourage and
>promote the discussion, early and final versions of the accepted
>papers will be available to authors, speakers, PC members and workshop
>attendants on the ESAW'01 web site immediately after notification of
>the authors.
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>Workshop Organisers & Chairs
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>Andrea Omicini (Italy) <mailto:aomicini@deis.unibo.it>
>Paolo Petta (Austria) <mailto:paolo@oefai.at>
>Robert Tolksdorf (Germany) <mailto:tolk@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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>Program Committee
>(as confirmed on 26.4.2001, further confirmations pending)
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>Cristiano Castelfranchi (Italy)
>Paolo Ciancarini (Italy)
>Helder Coelho (Portugal)
>Yves Demazeau (France)
>Rino Falcone (Italy)
>Rune Gustavsson (Sweden)
>Chibab Hanachi (France)
>Matthias Klusch (Germany)
>Lyndon C. Lee (UK)
>Andrea Omicini (Italy)
>H. Van Dyke Parunak (USA)
>Paolo Petta (Austria)
>Jeremy Pitt (UK)
>Agostino Poggi (Italy)
>Antony Rowstron (UK)
>Christophe Sibertin-Blanc (France)
>Paul Tarau (USA)
>Robert Tolksdorf (Germany)
>José M. Vidal (USA)
>Franco Zambonelli (Italy)
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