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CALL FOR
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Tenth International Workshop
"Engineering Societies in the Agents' World" (ESAW 2009),
November
18-20 2009,
Universiteit Utrecht,
Utrecht, The Netherlands
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AIMS &
SCOPE:
Software
agents and multi-agent systems are recognised as both useful
abstractions
and effective technologies for the modelling and building of complex
distributed applications. However, little has been done with regard to
effective and methodical development of complex software systems
in terms
of multi-agent societies. An urgent need exists for novel approaches to
software modelling and software engineering that enable the successful
deployment
of software systems made up of a massive number of autonomous
components, and
that allow to control and predict their behaviour. It is very likely
that
such innovations will exploit lessons from a variety of different
scientific disciplines, such as sociology, economics,
organisation \science,
modern thermodynamics, and biology.
ESAW
2009 will be devoted to the discussion of technologies, methodologies
and
models for the engineering of complex applications based on MAS,
and aims
at bringing together researchers and contributions from both within
and outside
the Agents' field - from Software Engineering, Distributed
Systems, Social
Sciences, and others -, so as to promote cross-fertilisation among
different
research areas. By focusing on the social aspects of MAS, ESAW
2009 concentrates
on the space of agent interaction, rather than on intra-agent issues,
and
on the technology and methodology issues rather than on the pure
theoretical aspects.
Following
successful editions since 2000, this 10th edition of ESAW
remains committed
to the use of the notion of multi-agent systems as seed for animated, constructive,
and
highly inter-disciplinary discussions about
technologies, methodologies,
and tools for the engineering of complex distributed
applications. While
the workshop places an emphasis on practical engineering issues
and applications,
it also welcomes theoretical, philosophical, and empirical
contributions,
provided that they clearly document their connection to the
core applied
issues.
Topics of
interest include, but are not
limited to:
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analysis,
design, development and verification of agent societies
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modelling
of complex distributed systems with agents and societies
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institutions,
organisations, and open multi-agent systems
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norms,
reputation, security, and trust in agents societies
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interaction/coordination
patterns in agent societies
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engineering
of social intelligence in multi-agent systems
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self-adapting,
self-organising, and self-regulating agent societies
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agent
societies and multi-agent systems in games
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simulation
of societies using multi-agent systems
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IMPORTANT
DATES:
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Submission Deadline: June 12, 2009
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Acceptance/Rejection Notification:
July 10, 2009
* Revised
Papers for Workshop Notes:
August 4, 2009
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INVITED
SPEAKERS:
To be
announced.
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SUBMISSION:
The ESAW
proceedings will be published by
Springer in the LNAI series and will be directly available at the
workshop.
Papers
should not exceed 16 pages and should
be formatted according to the Springer LNAI guidelines
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0).
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ORGANISERS:
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Huib
Aldewereld (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
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Virginia
Dignum (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
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Gauthier
Picard (École Nationale Supériere des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France)
STEERING
COMMITTEE:
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Marie-Pierre
Gleizes, (IRIT Universite Paul Sabatier, France)
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Andrea
Omicini, (DEIS Universita di Bologna, Italy)
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Paolo
Petta, (Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria)
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Jeremy
Pitt, (Imperial College London, UK)
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Robert
Tolksdorf, (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
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Franco
Zambonelli, (Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
PROGRAMME
COMMITTEE:
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Alexander
Artrikis (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)
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Federico
Bergenti, (Universita di Parma, Italy)
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Holger
Billhardt (Universita Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
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Guido
Boella, (Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy)
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Olivier
Boissier, (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, France)
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Tibor
Bosse (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
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Jeff
Bradshaw, (IHMC, USA)
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Cristiano
Castelfranchi, (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
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Luca
Cernuzzi, (Universidad Catolica "Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion",
Paraguay)
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Rem
Collier, (University College Dublin, Ireland)
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Mehdi
Dastani, (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
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Paul
Davidsson, (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
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Yves
Demazeau (IMAG, France)
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Jurriaan
van Diggelen (TNO, The Netherlands)
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Frank
Dignum (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
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Oguz
Dikenelli, (Ege University, Turkey)
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Paolo
Giorgini (University of Trento, Italy)
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Davide
Grossi (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
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Paul
Feltovich, (IHMC, USA)
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Nicoletta
Fornara (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)
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Anthony
Karageorgos, (University of Thessaly, Greece)
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Eric
Matson (Purdue University, USA)
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Simon
Miles (King's College London, UK)
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Tim
Miller, (University of Liverpool, UK)
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Sascha
Ossowski, (Univesidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
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Julian
Padget, (University of Bath, UK)
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Juan
Pavon Mestras, (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
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Loris
Penserini (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
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Alessandro
Ricci, (Universita di Bologna, Italy)
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Birna
van Riemsdijk (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
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Juan
Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar, (IIIA, Spain)
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Jaime
Simão Sichman (University of São Paolo, Brazil)
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Leon
Van der Torre, (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
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Jon
Tranier (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
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Wamberto
Vasconcelos, (University of Aberdeeen, UK)
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Laurent
Vercouter (École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne,
France)
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Mirko
Viroli, (Universita di Bologna, Italy)
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Danny
Weyns, (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
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Pinar
Yolum, (Bogazici University, Turkey)