First Announcement and Call for Papers
AGENT-BASED SIMULATION, PLANNING AND CONTROL
Special Session
(http://www.sztaki.hu/~vancza/imacs/agents.html)
of
16th IMACS World Congress 2000
on Scientific Computation, Applied Mathematics and Simulation
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
21-25 August 2000
(http://imacs2000.epfl.ch)
Papers are sought for a special session of the IMACS 2000 World Congress
about agents-based paradigms in simulation, planning and control of
complex systems. Organizational issues, simulation, planning and control
methods are all of equal interest. Theoretical work just as case studies
and results of empirical research are welcome.
TOPICS
The contributions to the session should be unpublished and original
materials on the following topics and within the overall context of
agenthood:
- Multi-agent organizational models for complex systems,
- Foundations for co-ordination: models, architectures and languages,
- Autonomy, co-operation, and competition,
- Emergence and emergent features,
- Methods and tools in complex system control,
- Process and production planning,
- Simulation-based analysis and verification,
- Concurrent engineering and life-cycle approaches to manufacturing,
- Global manufacturing and the use of world-wide information sources,
- Holonic manufacturing systems,
- Dynamic, distributed and reactive manufacturing,
- Virtual and extended enterprises.
BACKGROUND: IMACS
The International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
(IMACS) is an international association of professionals and scientists
concerned with computers, computation and applied mathematics, in
particular as they apply to the simulation of systems. This includes
numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, approximation theory, computer
hardware and software, programming languages and compilers. IMACS also
involves general philosophy of scientific computation and applied
mathematics, their impact on society as well as on disciplinary and
interdisciplinary research.
The 16th IMACS World Congress 2000 will present international
contributions organized by several sessions about particular topics of
applied mathematics. For details about the IMACS World Congress 2000
itself and its sessions: http://imacs2000.epfl.ch.
SUPPORT
The session is supported by the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS)
Working Group ESPRIT #2195 that aims to develop strong cooperation links
and initiate systematic information exchange amongst teams carrying out
long term research on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, also known as
IMS. For more details about IMS Working Group clustering and projects:
http://www.mech.kuleuven.ac.be/pma/project/imswg/welcome.html
SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of no more than 5 A4
pages written in 10pt size font and including figures and main references.
The first page must contain all author's contact information (name,
institution, address, e-mail, telephone, and fax) and a short abstract.
Submissions must reach the session organizers by 25th October 1999.
Submission can be done electronically (more suitably) to the following
addresses:
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For electronic submission, the only accepted file formats are Postscript
(.ps) and Portable Document Format (.pdf).
Printed submission can be done by sending 3 copies of the extended
abstracts to:
IMACS 2000 - Agent Session
Sprumont, Francois
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
DGM-ICAP-LICP
CH-1015 Lausanne
(Switzerland)
ORGANIZATION AND PUBLICATION
The session is planned to provide a forum for presenting eight papers,
including keynotes. In case of lively interest the organizers will
negotiate for an increase of the allotted time-slot.
Final publication, under IMACS responsibility, will be in two forms: (1)
one CD ROM containing full papers and available from 30th June 2000 and
(2) printed proceedings containing 1 page abstracts available for the
Congress. Papers on the CD and abstracts in the printed volume will have
to conform to given formats available in LATEX style files on the Congress
web pages. Authors with accepted submissions will receive instructions for
publication during January 2000.
IMPORTANT DATES
25th October 1999 Submission deadline for extended abstracts
20th December 1999 Communication of decisions to authors
1st March 2000 Submission deadline for full papers
21-25 August 2000 Congress
SESSION ORGANIZERS:
Sprumont, Francois, EPFL, (CH)
Vancza, Jozsef, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, (H)
SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Findler, Nicholas, Arizona State University, (USA)
Kiritsis, Dimitris, EPFL, (CH)
Muller, Jean-Pierre, University of Neuchatel, (CH)
Sprumont, Francois, EPFL, (CH)
Valckenaers, Paul, K.U. Leuven, (B)
Vancza, Jozsef, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, (H)
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, write to the session organizers at
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http://www.sztaki.hu/~vancza/imacs/agents.html.
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