CALL FOR PAPERS
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1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars (4A'20)
https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/4a
Organized within the framework of the Federated Conference on Computer
Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2020), Track 2
Sofia, Bulgaria, 6-9 September, 2020
http://www.fedcsis.org/
https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/css
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COVID-19 Information
We would like to assure everybody that FedCSIS 2020 will take place, the
submitted and accepted papers will be published and sent for indexations
as usual. In case the conference cannot be staged in real setting of
beautiful Sofia, we will provide a virtual web-based avenue for it. We
look forward to receiving your contributions as usual and guarantee that
FedCSIS 2020 will be another memorable and rewarding conference.
Nevertheless, we would like to stress that in case of inability to be
physically present at the FedCSIS Conference, due to travel
restrictions, the FedCSIS paper authors will be allowed to remotely
present their papers.
FedCSIS organizers
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The field of, broadly understood, agent technology is undergoing rapid
changes. What was once envisioned, primarily, in research papers becomes
reality. Over last few years we observe proliferation of personal
assistants and avatars (sometimes considered under a joint umbrella of
ChatBots). For instance, consider Siri, Cortana, Amazon Echo, or Google
Assistant (to name the most popular). They can help in different
activities, but a lot of work remains before they reach full potential.
Furthermore, actors start to materialize in real-world applications – as
a promising approach to implement large-scale distributed systems. It is
also worthy noticing that avatars, humans and smart things can cooperate
as a community that instantiates, contributes to and exploits various
aspects of collective intelligence. Here, observe that agents can play
very relevant role in the context of implementing, for example,
intelligence of smart devices, which interact with each other and with
humans, by common communication channels and, possibly even, social
networks. At the same time, software tools that can be used to realize
4A systems have reached maturity and are surrounded by active user
communities.
Topics
To recognize the current trends we have decided to develop a new
workshop that will cover all aspects concerning the 4A’s. Therefore, we
welcome submissions of original papers concerning the following topics
(the list is not exhaustive and deliberately provided on a meta-level):
* Actors, as an approach to design and (efficiently) implement
distributed systems
* Current perspectives on software agents and multi-agent systems
* Design and implementation of assistants
* ChatBot design, implementation and use • Avatars for today and tomorrow
* Theoretical foundations of 4A-based systems • 4A-based simulations
(with application to real-world use cases, in particular)
* Case studies, applications and experiences with 4A’s (in real-world,
in particular)
Demo Session
A special session devoted to demonstration of working prototypes is
planned. Special recognition for the best demo will be given.
Paper submission
- Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF or MSWord file).
- The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style
(including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are
available here.
- Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific
merit and relevance to the workshop.
- Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory
stick provided to the FedCSIS participants.
- Only papers presented at the conference will be published in
Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore®
database.
- Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN
and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
- Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for
indexation in: Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index,
SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science
Bibliography and Google Scholar
- Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference
will be invited to the Special Issue of:
** Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience
** Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (publication fee waiver for the
papers that are going to be selected is expected)
** Multiagent and Grid Systems
Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS events.
Important dates
* Paper submission (sharp/no extension): May 15, 2020
* Position paper submission: June 9, 2020
* Author notification: June 30, 2020
* Final paper submission and registration: July 15, 2020
* Conference: September 6 - 9, 2020
Program Committee
Agotnes, Thomas, University of Bergen, Norway
Ambroszkiewicz, Stanislaw, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy
of Sciences, Poland
Barseghyan, Artak, Yerevan, Armenia
Braubach, Lars, University of Hamburg, Germany
Budimac, Zoran, Faculty of Sciences, Univ. of Novi Sad, Serbia
Byrski, Aleksander, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Cabri, Giacomo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Florea, Adina, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania
Jedrzejowicz, Piotr, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Jezic, Gordan, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Kaleta, Mariusz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Kruczkiewicz, Zofia, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
Kusek, Mario, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
and Computing, Croatia
Leszczyna, Rafal, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Letia, Ioan Alfred, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Montangero , Manuela
Morge, Maxime, Université de Lille, France
Negru, Viorel, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Neruda, Roman, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the
Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Ngoc-Thanh, Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Niazi, Muaz, COSMOSE Research Group, COMSATS Institute of IT, Pakistan
Oliveira, Eugenio, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
Omicini, Andrea, Alma Mater Studiorum–Universit? di Bologna, Italy
Oren, Nir, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Ouedraogo, Moussa, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Paik, Incheon, University of Aizu, Japan
Poggi, Agostino, DII - University of Parma, Italy
Pokahr, Alexander, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr
Hamburg, Germany
Rahimi, Shahram, Southern Illinois University, United States
Rimassa, Giovanni, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland
Rykowski, Jarogniew, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Sakellariou, Ilias, University of Macedonia, Greece
Santoro, Corrado, University of Catania, Italy
Schaefer, Robert, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Senatore, Sabrina, DIEM University of Salerno, Italy
Tang, Yuqing, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Thimm, Matthias, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Venticinque, Salvatore, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy
Vouros, George, University of Piraeus, Greece
Wahjudi, Paulus, Marshall Unviersity, United States
Event Chairs
Badica, Costin, University of Craiova, Romania
Ganzha, Maria, Warsaw University of Tecnoogy, Poland
Ivanović, Mirjana, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Paprzycki, Marcin, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of
Sciences, Poland
Unland, Rainer, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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