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E S A W ' 0 2
Third International Workshop
"ENGINEERING SOCIETIES in the AGENTS WORLD"
16-17 September 2002,
Unversidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain (EU)
Organisers: Paolo Petta, Robert Tolksdorf, Franco Zambonelli
Local Chair: Sascha Ossowski
Submission deadline: 10 JUNE, 2002
<URL: http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/~paolo/conf/ESAW02/>
Co-located with the
6th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA2002)
<URL: http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2002.html>
* Aims & Scope
* Topics of Interest...
* Submission Format
* Deadlines and Dates
* Workshop Organisation
* Acknowledgments
AIMS & SCOPE
Software systems are undergoing dramatic changes. We are moving
rapidly into the age of ubiquitous information services. Persistent
computing systems are being embedded in everyday objects. They
interact in an autonomous way with each other to provide us with
increasingly complex services and functionalities that we can access
at any time from anywhere. As a consequence, not only do the numbers
of components of software systems increase; there is also a strong
qualitative impact. Software systems are increasingly made up of
autonomous, proactive, networked components. These interact with each
other in patterns and via mechanisms that can hardly be grasped in
terms of classical models of interaction or service-oriented
coordination. To some extent, future software systems will exhibit
characteristics making them more resemblant of natural systems and
societies than of mechanical systems and traditional software
architectures.
This situation poses exciting challenges to computer scientists and
software engineers. Already, software agents and multi-agent systems
are recognised as both useful abstractions and effective technologies
for the modeling and building of complex distributed applications.
However, little is done with regard to effective and methodic
development of complex software systems in terms of multi-agent
societies. An urgent need exists for novel approaches to software
modeling 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.
The sequel to successful editions in 2000 and 2001, ESAW'02 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, it also welcomes
theoretical, philosophical, and empirical contributions, provided that
they clearly document their connection to the core applied issues.
TOPICS OF INTEREST...
...therefore include (but are not limited to):
* analysis, design, development and verification of agent societies
* very large-scale multi-agent systems
* models of complex distributed systems with agents and societies
* coordination models & technologies for engineering of agent societies
* interaction-coordination patterns in agent societies
* inter-disciplinary approaches to engineering of agent societies
* engineering of social intelligence in multi-agent systems
* indirect programming of multi-agent systems
* centralised vs. decentralised social control
* self-organisation in agent societies
* security and trust in agent societies
* middleware infrastructures for agent societies
* studies of information ecosystems
* applications of analyses of entangled behaviour and bizarre systems
* experiences in building and maintaining large agent societies
* insightful analyses of negative results
SUBMISSION FORMAT
Contributions should not exceed 12 pages and should be formatted
according to the LNCS/LNAI style guide
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Only electronic submission is allowed. Please see the ESAW'02 webpages
(http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/~paolo/conf/ESAW02/) for further
information.
DEADLINES and DATES
Paper submission deadline: June 10, 2002
Notifications of acceptance/rejection: July 10, 2002
Camera-ready papers for the Workshop Notes: September 1, 2002
ESAW'02 Workshop: September 16-17, 2002
Revised papers for LNAI Post-Proceedings: October 15, 2002
Working Notes and Post-Proceedings
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Accepted papers will be collected in the ESAW'02 Working Notes.
Working Notes with all accepted contributions will be available at the
workshop.
Extended versions of papers presented at the workshop incorporating
the results of the discussions will be published in the workshop's
post-proceedings. As for the earlier workshop editions (LNAI 1972,
LNAI 2203), post-proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag, as
a volume of the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series.
WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
Workshop Organisers
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Paolo Petta ([log in to unmask])
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
Vienna (Austria)
Robert Tolksdorf ([log in to unmask])
Fakultät IV - Elektrotechnik und Informatik
Technische Univ. Berlin, Berlin (Germany)
Franco Zambonelli ([log in to unmask])
Dip. di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica,
Univ. Bologna, Reggio Emilia/Modena (Italy)
Local Organising Chair
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Sascha Ossowski ([log in to unmask])
Grupo de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial,
Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid (Spain)
Programme Committee
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Federico Bergenti Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione,
Univ. degli Studi di Parma (Italy)
Jeffrey Bradshaw Inst. for Human and Machine Cognition,
Univ. of West Florida (USA)
Cristiano Castelfranchi Inst. of Psychology,
CNR (Italy)
Paolo Ciancarini Dip. di Scienze dell'Informazione,
Univ. di Bologna (Italy)
Helder Coelho Dept. of Informatics of the Faculty of Sciences,
Univ. of Lisbon (Portugal)
Keith Decker Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences,
Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (USA)
Paul Davidsson Dept. of Software Engineering and Computer Science,
Blekinge Inst. of Technology, Karlskrona (Sweden)
Bruce Edmonds Centre for Policy Modelling,
Manchester Metropolitan Univ. Manchester (UK)
Rino Falcone Inst. of Psychology,
CNR (Italy)
Tim Finin Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Dept.,
Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, MD (USA)
Stephan Flake C-LAB, Cooperative Computing & Communication Lab,
Innovation Center of Siemens&Univ.Paderborn (Germany)
Martin Fredriksson Dept. of Software Engineering and Computer Science,
Blekinge Inst. of Technology, Karlskrona (Sweden)
Marie-Pierre Gleizes Inst. de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse,
Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (France)
Rune Gustavsson Dept. of Software Engineering and Computer Science,
Blekinge Inst. of Technology, Karlskrona (Sweden)
Nicholas Jennings Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group,
Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science,
Univ. of Southampton (UK)
Paul Kearney Intelligent Agents,
BT Exact (UK)
Matthias Klusch German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence -
DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken (Germany)
Yannis Labrou Powermarket, Inc.,
Belmont, CA (USA)
Lyndon C. Lee Intelligent Agents,
BT exact (UK)
Michael Luck Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group,
Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science,
Univ. of Southampton (UK)
Scott Moss Centre for Policy Modelling,
Manchester Metropolitan Univ. Manchester (UK)
Pablo Noriega Laboratorio Nacional de Informática Avanzada,
A.C, Xalpa, Vera Cruz (México)
Andrea Omicini Dip. di Elettronica,
Informatica e Sistemistica, Univ. di Bologna, Cesena (Italy)
Sascha Ossowski Grupo de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial,
Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid (Spain)
H.Van Dyke Parunak Altarum Inst.,
Ann Arbor, MI (USA)
Michal Pechoucek Dept. of Cybernetics,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Czech Technical Univ. Prague (Czech Republic)
Jeremy Pitt Intelligent and Interactive Systems, Electrical and
Electronic Engineering Dept., Imperial College of
Science, Technology and Medicine, London (UK)
Agostino Poggi Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione,
Univ. degli Studi di Parma (Italy)
John R. Rose Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
College of Engineering,
Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (USA)
Onn Shehory IBM Haifa Research Laboratories,
Haifa (Israel)
Christophe Sibertin-Blanc Inst. de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse,
Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (France)
José M. Vidal Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
College of Engineering, Univ. of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC (USA)
Gerhard Weiß Theoretische Informatik und Grundlagen der Künstlichen
Intelligenz, Inst. für Informatik,
Technische Univ. München (Germany)
Bin Yu Information Technology and Engineering,
College of Engineering, North Carolina State Univ.,
Raleigh, NC (USA)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The ESAW workshop series is the result of a collaboration promoted by
AgentLink, the European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based
Computing. The organizers of the present edition wish to acknowledge
the permission granted to mark the event with the AgentLink II seal of
quality. ESAW'02 is also supported by the Austrian Society for
Artificial Intelligence, the Spanish Ministry of Science and
Technology, and by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid (Spain).
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