Call for Paper- the Computer Journal, Special Issue on "Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence"

[F Sadri]

Call for Papers
the Computer Journal
ISSN : 0010-4620
Special Issue on "Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence"

http://asami07.cs.rhul.ac.uk/cj-cfp.html

Aim & Scope
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) seeks to create a society based on 
unobtrusive, often invisible interactions amongst people and 
computer-based services in a global computing environment. Services in 
AmI will be ubiquitous in that there will be no specific bearer or 
provider but, instead, they will be associated with a variety of objects 
and devices in the environment, which will not bear any resemblance to 
computers. People will interact with these services through intelligent 
and intuitive interfaces embedded in these objects and devices, which in 
turn will be sensitive to what people need.

In this special issue we aim at presenting the application and 
development of Artificial Societies for AmI, establish a body of 
knowledge and a theoretical umbrella for this, and use the resulting 
research to relate existing work on areas such as the semantic web, 
cognitive and social agents, and ambient and ubiquitous technologies. We 
also hope to present current research in the area of agent societies for 
AmI, where human activities are supported by social organisations of 
agents, computing devices or both, and assess the outcomes of such 
research. Our intention is to complement existing Ubiquitous Computing 
efforts that focus more on distributed systems and less on complex 
systems construed as artificial agent societies. This special issue 
therefore aspires to amalgamate ongoing research in distributed systems 
and complex multi-agent systems with the aim of strengthening the 
synergy between the two fields.

We encourage the submission of innovative and mature results in 
specifying, developing and deploying artificial societies for ambient 
intelligence. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the 
following topics:

     * Social architectures
     * Agent Interaction
     * Reasoning and knowledge representation
     * Reactivity and pro-activity
     * Learning and adaptivity
     * Decision making
     * Co-operation and co-ordination
     * Social Emergence and Evolution
     * Normative Reasoning and Regulations
     * Security, Trust and Privacy
     * Interaction Design and Interfaces
     * Mobility
     * Applications

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: January 21, 2008
Acceptance Notice: April 7, 2008
Final Manuscript: May 2, 2008
Publication Date: 2nd Quarter, 2008 (Tentative)

Submission Guidelines
The work submitted must be in the form of high quality, original papers, 
which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers 
should be formatted according to the journal style, and not exceed 25 
pages including figures, references, etc. The papers must be submitted 
via the journal web submission route and simultaneously submit a PDF 
version of complete manuscript to asami-guest-eds08 at cs.rhul.ac.uk.

Submitted papers will be peer reviewed according to their originality, 
quality and relevance to this special issue and the journal.


Guest Editors
Dr. Fariba Sadri
Department of Computing,
Imperial College London, UK
URL: http://doc.ic.ac.uk/~fs

Dr. Kostas Stathis
Computer Science Department,
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
URL: http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~kostas