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*Special Issue: Agents Organizations
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JCBS)
ISSN 0104-6500*
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THEME
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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high-quality original unpublished research, case studies, as well as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.
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Topics
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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
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ABOUT THE JOURNAL
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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).
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SUBMISSION
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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
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>, with the
Subject: JBCS Submission – Agents Organizations, according to the
schedule below.
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SCHEDULE
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Submission due date: 16/11/2004
Notification of acceptance: 01/02/2005
Camera-ready paper due: 15/03/2005
Publishing: 06/2005
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GUEST EDITORS
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*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: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Phone: +55 11 30915397
Fax: +55 11 30915294
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*Cristiano Castelfranchi
*Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC)
National Research Council (CNR)
Viale Marx 15
00137 Roma
ITALY
E-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Phone: +39 06 86090235
Fax: +39 06 824737
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*Virginia Dignum
*Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (ICS)
University Utrecht
Centrumgebouw Noord
Padualaan 14, De Uithof
3584CH Utrecht
THE NETHERLANDS
E-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Phone: +31 30 2539492
Fax: +31 30 2513791
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Jaime Simao SICHMAN University of Sao Paulo
Associate Professor Computer Engineering Department
Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, tv. 3, 158
[log in to unmask] 05508-900 Sao Paulo SP Brazil
URL:www.pcs.usp.br/~jaime voice: +55 11 30915397 fax: +55 11 30915294
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