CfP: APSLA - ACM SAC Track on Agent-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications

[Alessandro Ricci]

*** Apologies for multiple postings! ***

First Call-for-papers

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APSLA, Agent-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications
Track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 23rd Edition
Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil,
March 16 - 20, 2008
http://apsla.ex.nii.ac.jp/
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The requirements of today distributed software systems are increasingly
complex. Among the aspects that characterize such a complexity, we
mention here the inherent distribution of resources and activity - that
makes global control practically infeasible and emphasizes the need for
decentralized control - and the highly dynamic and changing operating
conditions in which today's distributed applications operate - that
calls for open and adaptive software.

Current paradigms and technologies cope with some aspects of this
complexity, but dealing with quality requirements such as dependability,
scalability, and maintainability remain hard problems. Engineers and
programmers cannot reasonably manage this complexity and therefore new
models and automated tools are desired to deal with the complexity
imposed by these qualities. The APSLA track aims at investigating how
the multi-agent paradigm can contribute to the engineering of complex
systems and applications. The track aims at exploring the aspects of
multi-agent systems (MAS) that are relevant in building complex
distributed software systems.

The APSLA track is interested in the research categories of
agent-oriented programming, system, language, and application. This
first edition of the track will particularly focus on concerns that
cross-cut these categories in designing complex systems, notably:

* Decentralized control: How to engineer a decentralized solution
consisting of a population of agents?
* Open systems: How to leverage agents dynamically to enter and leave
the system?
* Adaptive systems: How to engineer self-adapting and self-organizing
systems? How to provide guarantees about the global behavior of a
systems that consists of interacting autonomous entities?
* Model of concurrency in MAS: How can the agent abstraction contribute
to improve current practice in managing concurrency in complex
distributed systems?

The APSLA track fosters the investigation, definition, and exploitation
of different conceptual and computational models, architectures,
languages and tools with the strong idea to promote the research on
possibly new approaches with properties that make them effective for the
engineering of complex distributed software systems.

Papers may address any stage of software development, including
requirement analysis, architectural design, detailed design,
implementation, and testing. Papers may focus on processes and methods
in addition to tools and techniques. Of particular interest are papers
with perspectives that cut across the traditional boundaries of
languages, systems and applications in the development of complex
distributed software systems and focus on the aspects of decentralized
control, openness, adaptivity, and concurrency.

--- Topics of interest ---
Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:

FOUNDATIONS
* Theoretical foundations, formal methods of agent-oriented approaches
* Agent-oriented computational models
* Interaction and coordination models for multi-agent systems
* Computational complexity of multi-agent systems

PROGRAMMING & ENGINEERING
* Agent-oriented paradigm for programming open and dynamic systems
* Theoretical and practical aspects of multi-agent programming
* Agent-oriented design patterns
* Agent-oriented software architectures and frameworks
* Programming environments
* Integration with legacy systems, "agentification" of legacy systems
* Debugging tools and techniques
* Metrics for agent-oriented design and implementations
* Agent-oriented methodologies

SYSTEMS
* Agent-oriented coordination infrastructures
* Middleware for agent-oriented systems
* Infrastructures for mobile agents

LANGUAGES
* Agent-oriented programming languages
* Agent-oriented language design and implementation
* Benchmarks and testbeds for agent-oriented languages and tools
* Extension of traditional languages towards agent-orientation

APPLICATIONS
* Agent-oriented design and implementation of autonomic systems
* Agent-oriented design and implementation of SOA and Web
Service applications
* Agent-oriented design and implementation of transportation, traffic
management, and unmanned vehicles
* Use of agent technologies in logistics and manufacturing
* Use of agent technologies in related research domains: Semantic Web,
Grid Services and Computing
* ...

--- Submission process and format ---
The submission process is supported by an eCMS paper management tool:
http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2008/SubmitAbstract.aspx

Submissions must represent original and previously unpublished work that
is not currently under review in any other conference or journal.
Submitted papers should be no longer than 5 pages in the ACM two-column
format.

Papers should be submitted in PDF format exclusively.

--- Important dates ---
Sep. 8, 2007: Submission of papers by authors
Oct. 16, 2007: Authors notification
Oct. 30, 2007: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers

--- Organizers ---
Alessandro Ricci, Università di Bologna, Italy
Eric Platon, Université de Paris 6, France
Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics Japan
Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

--- Program Committee (partial list) ---
Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, USA
Jean-Pierre Briot, Université Paris 6, France
Alessandro Garcia, Lancaster University, UK
Paolo Giorgini, Università di Trento, Italy
Jorge J. Gomez Sanz, Universidad Computense Madrid, Spain
Tom Holvoet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Shinichi Honiden, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo  
University, Japan
Fabien Michel, Université de Reims, France
Van Parunak, NewVectors Inc., USA
Onn Shehory, IBM, Israel
Akinori Yonezawa, Tokyo University, Japan



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Alessandro Ricci, PhD
Researcher at DEIS
Universitˆ di Bologna
Via Venezia, 52
Cesena (FC)
mailto: a.ricci at unibo.it
tel: +390547339217
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