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Subject: Special Issue: Agents Organizations, Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JCBS
From: Francois Bousquet (f.bousquet@cgiar.org)
Date: Sun May 23 2004 - 15:18:56 CEST
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Objet : Appel à Soumission JBCS : Special Issue AgentsOrganizations
Call for Articles
Special Issue: Agents Organizations
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JCBS)
ISSN 0104-6500
THEME
Agent organizations are an emergent area of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS)
that relies on the notion of openness and heterogeneity of MAS and poses
new demands on traditional MAS models. These demands include the
integration of organizational and individual perspectives and the
dynamic adaptation of models to organizational and environmental
changes. Organizational self-design will play a critical role in the
development of larger and more complex MAS. As systems grow to include
hundreds or thousands of agents, we must move from an agent-centric view
of coordination and control to an organization-centric one. Practical
applications of agents to organizational modeling are being widely
developed but formal theories are needed to describe interaction and
organizational structure. Furthermore, it is necessary to get a closer
look at the relation between organizational roles and the agents that
fulfill them.
The overall problem of analyzing the social, economic and technological
dimensions of agent organizations, and the co-evolution of agent and
human social and personal structures in the organization, provide
theoretically demanding, interdisciplinary research questions at
different levels of abstraction. Organizational research is increasingly
recognizing the advantage of agent-based and other AI models for gaining
insight in organizational issues and in exploring dynamic processes and
configurations. On the other hand, organizational research has been
active in the field of organizational modeling for many years, and has
developed insights and theories that are very useful for MAS
researchers.
Recognizing the importance of the research in this area, the Journal of
the Brazilian Computer Society is organizing a special issue on agents
organizations. The primary focus of this special issue will be on
high-quality original unpublished research, case studies, as well as
implementation experiences.
Topics
The topics of this issue include, but are not limited to:
Modeling multi-agent organizations
Formal theories for roles, authority, delegation, empowerment, and
entitlement in agent organizations
Deontic aspects in agent organizations
Social aspects of agent organizations
Organization design, monitoring, and adaptation
Coordination models and devices in agent organizations
Communication and interaction in agent organizations
Engineering organizational coordination
Scaling and control issues in agent organizations
Application of organizational theory to MAS
Simulation, analysis and verification of dynamics of multi-agent
organizations
Dynamic, adaptive and emergent organizational structures and dynamics
Practical application examples for (aspects of) agent-organization
systems
Applications of agent organizations to knowledge management, CSCW,
workflow, etc.
Implementation and tools for agent organizations
Human-computer interaction in agent organizations
ABOUT THE JOURNAL
The Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society is the formal quarterly
publication of the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (Brazilian
Computer
Society), Brazil. Its aim is to publish original research papers,
serving
as a forum for disseminating innovative research in all aspects of
computer
science. The priorities of the journal are quality and timeliness. The
journal
also has an electronic version with free access through the Scielo
Portal
(http://www.scielo.br/revistas/jbcos/iaboutj.htm).
SUBMISSION
Submissions must be in English and should be no more than 20 pages long,
including all text, figures and references. The final manuscript should
be
approximately 8000 words in length.
Page 1 should contain the article title (not more than 15 words),
author(s),
affiliation(s), keywords (not more than 6 keywords), abstract (no more
than
250 words) and the name, fax number and complete mailing address (both
postal
and email) of the person to whom correspondence should be sent. All
contributions will be acknowledged and refereed.
Please, send your submissions (pdf files) by email to
jaime.sichman@poli.usp.br,
with the Subject: JBCS Submission – Agents Organizations, according to
the schedule
below.
SCHEDULE
Submission due date: 31/10/2004
Notification of acceptance: 01/02/2005
Camera-ready paper due: 15/03/2005
Publishing: 06/2005
GUEST EDITORS
Jaime Simão Sichman
Intelligent Techniques Laboratory (LTI)
Computer Engineering Department (PCS)
Polytechnic School (EP)
University of São Paulo (USP)
Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 158 travessa 3
05508-900 São Paulo SP
BRAZIL
e-mail: jaime.sichman@poli.usp.br
Phone: +55 11 30915397
Fax: +55 11 30915294
Cristiano Castelfranchi
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC)
National Research Council (CNR)
Viale Marx 15
00137 Roma
ITALY
E-mail: c.castelfranchi@istc.cnr.it
Phone: +39 06 86090235
Fax: +39 06 824737
Virginia Dignum
Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (ICS)
University Utrecht
Centrumgebouw Noord
Padualaan 14, De Uithof
3584CH Utrecht
THE NETHERLANDS
E-mail: virginia@cs.uu.nl
Phone: +31 30 2539492
Fax: +31 30 2513791
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