> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> ESAW'00
> First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents' World
> http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW00/
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> August 21, 2000 - Berlin (Germany)
>
> held in conjunction with ECAI 2000
> 14th Biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
> http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/
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>Technical Description
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>DAI researchers and technology makers are paving the way towards new worlds
>to build, where a multitude of independent entities interact within
>artificial societies pursuing goals on our behalf, both as individuals and
>as groups. Applications and systems built as societies of autonomous and
>intelligent agents promise to provide computer scientists and engineers
>with the expressive and computational power to tackle levels of complexity
>never reached before.
>
>Going far beyond the boundaries of DAI, multi-agent systems (MAS) are
>rapidly evolving into an independent research field, which gathers
>contributions from many different areas such as Distributed Systems, Social
>& Cognitive Sciences, Mobile Computing, and so on. In particular, MAS
>engineering may actually represent the next frontier for the design and
>development of complex software systems, by providing agents and societies
>as powerful abstractions for decomposing tasks, modelling complex domains,
>and embedding intelligence into real-world applications.
>
>In this context, there is an urgent need not only for theoretical
>foundations making MAS conceptual setting clear, but also for specific
>methodologies driving MAS design, for specific technologies and processes
>driving MAS development, and for powerful and manageable infrastructures
>making MAS a viable approach to embed intelligence into applications.
>
>The workshop is devoted to discuss technologies, methodologies and models
>for the engineering of complex applications based on MAS, and aims at
>bringing together researchers and contributions from both within and
>outside the DAI field - from Software Engineering, Distributed Systems,
>Social Sciences, and so on -, so as to promote cross-fertilisation among
>different research areas. By focussing on the social aspects of MAS,
>ESAW'00 concentrates on the space of agent interaction, rather than on
>intra-agent issues, and on the technology and methodology issues rather
>than on the pure theoretical aspects.
>
>Topics
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> - coordination models and technologies for engineering 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
> - methodologies, tools and artifacts for engineering agent societies
> - design vs. self-organisation
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>Workshop Organisation
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>ESAW'00 will take place August 21, at the Humboldt University, Berlin, in
>conjunction with ECAI 2000, the 14th Biennial European Conference on
>Artificial Intelligence. 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'00 web site as soon as they are available, before the workshop takes
>place.
>
>Submission Information & Proceedings
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>
>A volume with the proceedings will be available at the workshop for the
>attendants. Authors of papers presented at the workshop will be asked to
>extend their contribution, possibly incorporating the results of the
>workshop discussion, to be included in the workshop post-proceedings.
>Post-proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the
>Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series
>(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). Contributions (up to 12
>pages) should be formatted according to the LNAI style guide
>(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and sent as a PDF or
>Postscript file via e-mail to the address [log in to unmask]
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>Program Committee
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>Cristiano Castelfranchi (Italy)
>Paolo Ciancarini (Italy)
>Helder Coelho (Portugal)
>Rino Falcone (Italy)
>Rune Gustavsson (Sweden)
>Chihab Hanachi (France)
>Nick Jennings (UK)
>Matthias Klusch (Germany)
>Paolo Petta (Austria)
>Agostino Poggi (Italy)
>Antony Rowstron (UK)
>Christophe Sibertin-Blanc (France)
>Paul Tarau (USA)
>Francesca Toni (UK)
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>Organisers & Chairmen
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>Andrea Omicini (Italy)
>Robert Tolksdorf (Germany)
>Franco Zambonelli (Italy)
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>Contact
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>Andrea Omicini
>LIA - DEIS (Universita' di Bologna)
>Viale Risorgimento, 2
>40136, Bologna (Italy)
>phone: +39 051 209 3023
>fax: +39 051 209 3073
>mailto:[log in to unmask]
>http://lia.deis.unibo.it/~ao/
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>Important Dates
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>Submission due: April 7, 2000
>Notification sent: May 10, 2000
>Final paper due: June 12, 2000
>Workshop: August 21, 2000
>LNAI paper due: September 20, 2000
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>Workshop Web Site
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>The latest information on ESAW'00 can be found at:
>
> http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW00/
>
>Electronic Submission
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>Send your submission as a PDF or PS file to:
>
> mailto:[log in to unmask]
______________________________________________________________________________
Prof Nigel Gilbert, PhD, FREng, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey,
Guildford GU2 5XH, UK. Tel: +44 1483 259173 Fax: +44 1483 259551
______________________________________________________________________________
Prof Nigel Gilbert, PhD, FREng, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey,
Guildford GU2 5XH, UK. Tel: +44 1483 259173 Fax: +44 1483 259551
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Prof Nigel Gilbert, PhD, FREng, Dept. of Sociology, University of Surrey,
Guildford GU2 5XH, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1483 259173 Fax: +44 (0)1483 259551
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