MASTA '07 - extended deadline - 15 July
Wojtek Jamroga
wjamroga at in.tu-clausthal.de
Di Jul 3 11:34:47 CEST 2007
Apologies for multiple copies...
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MASTA'07
4th Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications
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Extended deadline: 15 July 2007
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To be held at EPIA'07 - 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, 03-07, December, 2007, Guimaraes, Portugal
(http://epia2007.appia.pt)
Sponsored by: APPIA, Portuguese Association for Artificial
Intelligence
Proceedings: Springer LNAI
Supported by: ECCAI, European Coordinating Committee for Artificial
Intelligence
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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 4th MASTA workshop will be, in the context of
EPIA’07, 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.
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Topics of Interest
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- Agent Architectures
- Agent Programming Languages
- Agent-Based Applications
- Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
- Automated Negotiation and Decision Making
- Artificial Social Systems
- Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies
- Cooperative Information Agents
- Communication: languages, semantics, protocols, and conversations
- Cooperation, Coordination and teamwork in MAS
- Ethical and legal issues raised by Agents and 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
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Scope - Technical Description
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Following the previous workshops on autonomous software agents and
multi-agent systems that have been organized in the context of the
EPIA conferences (MASTA in 1997, 2001 and 2005), the purpose of this
workshop is to provide a high-profile, internationally respected
discussion forum on the most recent and innovative scientific
research and applications in the areas of multi-agent systems and
autonomous agents. As in previous occurrences of MASTA, the unifying
focus of the workshop will be on the methodological aspects. Both
theoretical research and more practical one should be situated in the
context of existing/new methodologies for agent-oriented software
engineering. This framework is not intended to preclude any specific
topic, but preference will be given to research work establishing
some connection with the methodological aspects or to successful
applications built upon some existing or developing methodology.
Theoretical papers should make clear the significance and relevance
of the theoretical results to the Multi-Agent community, while more
practical, applied ones, should clearly relate to the state of the
art and make clear their own contribution.
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Paper Submission
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Submissions must follow the guidelines specified in the conference site.
Authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and should
take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. The
Springer LNCS format must be used (instructions in
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html/).
Paper submissions will be made in PDF format, through the submission
page available in EPIA 2007 website.
More detailed and up-to-date information, including types and maximum
lengths of submissions, may be found in http://epia2007.appia.pt
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Proceedings
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Workshop papers of higher quality will be selected for publication in
the main volume of the conference proceedings, to be published by
Springer, in the LNAI series. The remaining accepted papers will be
published in local workshop proceedings, in hard-copy, in CD-ROM and
in the web.
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Conference Site
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Further and up-to-date information can be found in the official site
of the conference at: http://epia2007.appia.pt
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Important Dates
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15-Jul-07 Paper Submission Deadline
28-Jul-07 Author Notification
01-Set-07 Deadline for Final Camera-Ready Copies
03/07-Dec-07 EPIA Conference
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Organising Committee
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Luis Paulo Reis
LIACC – Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de
Computadores, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Rua
Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal Tel. +351 91
9455251 / Fax. +351 22 5081443 http://www.fe.up.pt/~lpreis
E-mail: lpreis at fe.up.pt
João Balsa
Departamento de Informática,
Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, Bloco C6, Piso 3, Campo Grande, 1700
Lisboa, Portugal
Tel: +351 21 7500508 / Fax: +351 21 7500084
http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jbalsa/
E-mail: jbalsa at di.fc.ul.pt
Paulo Novais
Departamento de Informática,
Universidade do Minho
Campus de Gualtar,
4710-057 Braga
Tel: +351 253 604437 / Fax: +351 253 604471
http://www.di.uminho.pt/~pjn/
E-mail: pjon at di.uminho.pt
Eugénio Oliveira
LIACC – Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de
Computadores, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Rua
Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal Tel. +351 22
5081829 / Fax. +351 22 5081443
http://www.fe.up.pt/~eol/MEMBERS/eco.html
E-mail: eco at fe.up.pt
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Program Committee
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Ana Paiva (IST, Univ. Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
Ana Paula Rocha(Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Andrea Omicini (DEIS, Italy)
Andreia Malucelli (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Curitiba, Brazil)
António Rocha Costa (Univ. Católica de Pelotas, Brazil)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC/CNR ,Italy)
David Hales (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Eugénio Oliveira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Hélder Coelho (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Isabel Praça (ISEP/IPP, Portugal)
Jaime Sichmann (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
João Balsa (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
João Leite (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
John-Jules Meyer (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
Jordi Sabater (IIIA, CSIC, Spain)
Jorg Muller (Siemens AG, Germany)
Jorge Louçã (ISCTE, Portugal)
Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
Klaus Fischer (DFKI, Germany)
Luis Antunes (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Luís Moniz (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Luís Nunes (ISCTE, Portugal)
Luís Paulo Reis (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Marie-Pierre Gleizes (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, France)
Mark d'Inverno (Westminster University, UK)
Mikhail Prokopenko (CSIRO ICT Centre, Sidney, Australia)
Nikos Vlassis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Nuno Lau (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
Oliver Obst (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Paolo Petta (Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria)
Paul Guyot (NII, Tokyo, Japan)
Paul Valckenaers (Katholic University Leuven, Belgium)
Paulo Leitão (IP Bragança, Portugal)
Paulo Novais (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Reinaldo Bianchi (FEI – São Paulo, Brazil)
Sherief Abdallah (British Univ.Dubai, UAE)
Virginia Dignum (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
Wojtek Jamroga (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
Yves Demazeau (IMAG, Grenoble, France)
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