CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 11th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S 2017) Prague, Czech Republic, 3 - 6 September, 2017 WWW: https://www.fedcsis.org/2017/mass and https://fedcsis.org/ E-mail: [log in to unmask] We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to MAS&S 2017 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017). Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) provide powerful models for representing both real-world systems and applications with an appropriate degree of complexity and dynamics. Several research and industrial experiences have already shown that the use of MASs offers advantages in a wide range of application domains (e.g. financial, economic, social, logistic, chemical, engineering, Internet of Things). When MASs represent software applications to be effectively delivered, they need to be validated and evaluated before their deployment and execution, thus methodologies that support validation and evaluation through simulation of the MAS under development are highly required. MASs are designed for representing systems at different levels of complexity through the use of autonomous, goal-driven and interacting entities organized into societies which exhibit emergent properties The agent-based model of a system can then be executed to simulate the behavior of the complete system so that knowledge of the behaviors of the entities (micro-level) produce an understanding of the overall outcome at the system-level (macro-level). In both cases (MASs as software applications and MASs as models for the analysis of complex systems), simulation plays a crucial role that needs to be further investigated. TOPICS ======================================= MAS&S'17 aims at providing a forum for discussing recent advances in Engineering Complex Systems by exploiting Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation. In particular, the areas of interest are the following (although this list should not be considered as exclusive): - Agent-based simulation techniques and methodologies - Discrete-event simulation of Multi-Agent Systems - Simulation as validation tool for the development process of MAS - Agent-oriented methodologies incorporating simulation tools - MAS simulation driven by formal models - MAS simulation toolkits and frameworks - Testing vs. simulation of MAS - Industrial case studies based on MAS and simulation/testing - Agent-based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) - Agent-based Ambient Systems - Agent Computational Economics (ACE) - Agent Computational Finance (ACF) - Agent-based simulation for energy systems - Agent-based simulation of networked systems - Scalability in agent-based simulation - Agent-based modeling of intelligent social phenomena PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by May 10, 2017. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, and published electronically in a volume of "Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems" (ACSIS). Position and communication papers are published in separate ACSIS volume(s) and they are not submitted to the IEEE Xplore DL. IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: May 10, 2017 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 31, 2017 - Acceptance decision: June 14, 2017 - Final version of paper submission: July 28, 2017 - Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2017 - Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Fuentes-Fernández, Rubén, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain - Gravina, Raffaele, University of Calabria, Italy - Niazi, Muaz A. - COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan - Seidita, Valeria, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy STEERING COMMITTEE ======================================= - Cossentino, Massimo, ICAR-CNR, Italy - Fortino, Giancarlo, Universita della Calabria, Italy - Gleizes, Marie-Pierre, Universite Paul Sabatier, France - Hilaire, Vincent, Université de Belfort-Montbéliard, France - Pavon, Juan, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain - Russo, Wilma, Universita della Calabria, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE ======================================= - Antunes, Luis, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Azar, Ahmad Taher, Benha University, Egypt, Egypt - Bernon, Carole, Université Paul Sabatier, France - Cipresso, Pietro, I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy - Davidsson, Paul, Malmö University, Sweden - Garro, Alfredo, University of Calabria, Italy - Guerrieri, Antonio, University of Calabria, Italy - Molesini, Ambra, Università di Bologna, Italy - Petta, Paolo, OFAI, Austria - Ribino, Patrizia, ICAR-CNR, Italy - Savaglio, Claudio, Universita della Calabria - Vizzari, Giuseppe, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy - Zia, Kashif, Sohar University, Oman, Pakistan ======================================= CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: [log in to unmask] FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN