3rd Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications
(MASTA 2005)
[http://masta.epia05.di.ubi.pt]
To be held at the
12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
EPIA '05
[http://epia05.di.ubi.pt/]
December, 5-8, 2005, Covilhã, Portugal
Call for Papers
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Download the Call for Papers in PDF:
http://epia05.di.ubi.pt/CFP_Masta05.pdf
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Workshop Description
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Since 1993 the area of Multi-Agent Systems/Distributed Artificial
Intelligence has been present in the EPIA conferences, both as
individual
tracks in the main conference and as autonomous workshops. Focusing on a
fundamental area of research in Artificial Intelligence, the 3rd MASTA
workshop will be, in the context of EPIA’05, the forum for presenting
and
discussing the most recent and innovative work in the area of
multi-agent
systems.
Departing, from the end of the 1980’s, from the two main branches of
Decentralized AI and Distributed Problem Solving, research in
Distributed
Artificial Intelligence/Multi-Agent Systems has developed in areas of
increase specialisation and autonomy as diverse as: agent-oriented
programming and software engineering; cognitive modelling; swarm
intelligence; coordination in MAS; social organisation modelling; social
simulation; agent architectures; and many more.
Today, besides the existence of countless application areas, theoretical
research in these topics has also a great activity and development.
Being
a young research area, a lot of work is still to be done, both on its
foundations and on the methodological approaches that will allow for a
better grounding of the results obtained.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a discussion forum on the
most
recent and innovative work in the areas of multi-agent systems and
autonomous agents.
The unifying focus of the workshop will be on the methodological
aspects.
Both theoretical research and practical one should be situated in the
context of existing/new methodologies for developing agents and
multi-agent systems. This will not preclude any specific topic, but
preference will be given to research work that establishes some
connection
with the methodological aspects or to successful applications built upon
some methodology.
Some topics of special interest are:
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Agent Architectures
Agent Programming Languages
Agent-Based Applications
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Automated Negotiation and Decision Making
Artificial Social Systems
Cooperation, Coordination and Communication in MAS
Multi-Agent Evolution, Adaptation and Learning
Multi-Agent Simulation & Modelling
Formal Methods for Modelling Agent-Based Systems
Scalability and Performance of MAS
Industrial and Commercial Applications
Important Dates
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Full Paper: 27 May 2005
Author Notification: 15 July 2005
Deadline for Final Camera-Ready Copies: 28 July 2005
Paper Submission and Reviewing Process
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Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or
experience reports in English. Scientific or technical articles
describing
state-of-the-art techniques, algorithms, systems, environments, problems
or applications relevant to the area of Multi-Agent Systems/Distributed
Artificial Intelligence may be submitted.
Two types of submissions will be considered: full papers and short
papers.
Full papers will be allocated a slot of 25 minutes for its presentation
plus 10 minutes of discussion. Short papers will be allocated a slot of
15
+ 5 minutes. The length of submitted full papers must not exceed 12
pages
and posters should be up to 5 pages.
The Springer LNCS format must be used. Authors must prepare their
submissions according to the instructions given by Springer-Verlag
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.htm/). You can find more
information on the website of the Conference under the submission menu.
Submissions will be made by electronic means, in PDF format, through the
submission page available in the EPIA 2005 website.
In order to make blind reviewing possible, submissions must be
anonymous.
This requires that authors exercise some care not to identify themselves
in their contributions. When referring to one's own work, authors must
use
the third person rather than the first person. References should include
all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous works
of the authors but it should not include unpublished works.
In order to have papers published at least one of the authors should be
registered in the EPIA Conference. At least three program committee
members with recognized expertise in described field will review each
submission.
Workshop high quality full papers will be selected for publication in
the
main volume of conference proceedings, to be published by Springer, in
the
LNAI series. Good quality papers not selected for publication in the
main
volume conference proceedings and selected posters will be published in
local workshop proceedings, in hard-copy, in CD-ROM and in the web.
Organising Committee
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João Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Luís Moniz (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Luís Paulo Reis (University of Porto, Portugal)
Program Committee
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Alberto Silva (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
Ana Lúcia Bazzan (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Ana Paula Rocha (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Carles Sierra (IIIA, Spain)
David Hales (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Edmund Durfee (University of Michigan, USA)
Eugénio Oliveira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Graça Gaspar (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Guido Boella (Università di Torino, Italy)
Hélder Coelho (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Jaime Sichmann (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
João Balsa (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
João Leite (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
John-Jules Meyer (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
José Machado (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Klaus Fischer (DFKI, Germany)
Leon Sterling (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Luís Botelho (ISCTE, Portugal)
Luís Moniz (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Luís Paulo Reis (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Mark d'Inverno (University of Westminster, UK)
Michael Fisher (Univ. Liverpool, UK)
Mikhail Prokopenko (CSIRO ICT Centre, Sidney, Australia)
Nikos Vlassis (University of Amsterdam, Greece)
Nuno Lau (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
Paolo Petta (Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria)
Van Parunak (Altarum Institute, USA)
Yves Demazeau (IMAG, France)
Contacts
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In order to contact the Workshop Organisers, please send your message to
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João Balsa,
University of Lisbon,
Tel. +351 217 500 508
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Luís Moniz,
University of Lisbon,
Tel. +351 217 500 527
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Luís Paulo Reis,
University of Porto,
Tel. +351 225 081 829
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Professor Nigel Gilbert, FREng, AcSS, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor
of
Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. +44 (0)1483
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