AgentLink III TF3 - Self-Organisation in MAS Technical Forum Group
Call for Contributions and Participation
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Agentlink III – TF3 dates: 15-17 September, 2005
SELF-ORG TFG Meeting dates: 16-17 September 2005
Location: Budapest, Hungary - Hotel Agro Panorama
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Contact (Chairs):
* Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo
Centre Universitaire d'Informatique University of Geneva, Geneva,
Switzerland - [log in to unmask] -
http://cui.unige.ch/~dimarzo
* Marie-Pierre Gleizes
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, University Paul
Sabatier, Toulouse, France - [log in to unmask] - http://www.irit.fr/SMAC.
* Anthony Karageorgos
University of Thessaly Dept. of Computer & Communication Engineering,
Volos - Greece- [log in to unmask] -
http://inf-server.inf.uth.gr/~karageorgos
TFGSO web site: http://www.irit.fr/TFGSO
AgentLink III web site: http://www.agentlink.org
AgentLink III Technical Forum site:
http://www.agentlink.org/activities/al3-tf/
SCOPE AND AIM OF THE TFG
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The general scope of this TFG is to establish the notions, mechanisms,
and software engineering principles governing distributed decentralised
systems such as large-scale decentralised MAS. The point of focus of the
proposed TFG will be on approaches to incorporate self-organisation
mechanisms in the design of Multi-agent Systems. In particular, the
efforts will concentrate on attempting to conclude answers, elaborated
in previous TFGs, to questions of major interest including:
• Could we establish an operational definition of the term
‘emergence’?
• How could self-organisation mechanisms already applied in other
disciplines be reused in the design of MAS?
• How could we derive appropriate self-organisation mechanisms for
MAS starting from a set of application requirements?
• Could we define a set of criteria suitable for characterisation
of self-organisation and emergence in MAS?
• How can we group together the computing science research
community working on self-organisation and emergent behaviour such as
multi-agent systems, autonomic computing, pervasive computing?
• How can we strengthen the links with other disciplines such as
biology, systemic, sociology and physics? Due to the diversity of the
issues involved with self-organisation, participation of people from
different disciplines such as biology, systemic, sociology, physics and
software engineering will be strongly encouraged so that the problem of
self-organisation will be highlighted from different perspectives. In
particular emphasis should be given in establishing and enhancing links
with other disciplines through contacts with networks such as EXYSTENCE,
or researchers involved in the new EU NEST-PATHFINDER initiative
(Tackling Complexity of Science).
During the first two meetings preliminary work lead to the following
results: Assessment of definitions of the term ‘self-organisation’,
preliminary discussion on the notion of ‘emergent phenomenon’,
identification of several case studies and presentation of different
solutions for realising them and proposition of measures and criteria
for assessing self-organisation. The third TFG meeting is intended to
complete and finalise the work undertaken during the first two meetings.
More precisely, the aim of this third TFG is threefold:
1. To continue and complete the work on definitions initiated
during the previous TFG meetings in Rome and in Ljubljana and in
particular to establish the definition of emergence in complex
distributed systems such as MAS.
2. To focus on lessons learned from applying various
self-organisation mechanisms to different case studies, and to discuss
how to generalise the insight gained about these mechanisms.
3. To discuss hot topics and open issues, and to concentrate on
preparing a book reporting on the results of the collaborative work done
in the context of the Self-Org TFG meetings so far.
The proposed TFG meeting will include two half-day sessions, focusing to
one of the above points. Lessons learned from previous meetings indicate
that not all participants are interested in all points and therefore a
modular meeting structure would facilitate selective participation and
would improve productivity. Furthermore, our previous experience shows
that there is a crucial need for dedicating more time to informal
discussions.
WAYS TO PARTICIPATE
You can participate in two ways:
a) by giving a talk concerning how you applied self-organisation in one
of the case studies selected in the previous meeting in Rome. Please
visit the TFGSO web site (http://www.irit.fr/TFGSO) for more information
on the case studies selected and do not hesitate to contact the
organisers if you need any further assistance.
b) by attending the meeting and taking part in the collaborative
sessions
REGISTRATION
Please inform the chairs by mail of you your intention to participate as
soon as possible. Furthermore, please register your interest here
http://www.agentlink.org/activities/al3-tf/tf3/registration.html
The final programme of the meeting will be announced shortly on the TFG
web site. A preliminary programme is available on the same location
http://www.irit.fr/TFGSO/.
Details of the venue location can be found at the
Agentlink web-site http://www.agentlink.org/activities/al3-tf/tf3/.
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Dr. Anthony Karageorgos
University of Thessaly
Dept. of Computer & Communication Engineering
37 Glavani - 28th October Str
Deligiorgi Building, 4th floor, Room D3/4
382 21 Volos - Greece
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
URL : http://inf-server.inf.uth.gr/~karageorgos
Ôel.: +30-24210-74927
Fax: +30-24210-74997
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