CALL FOR PAPERS - AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, DEADLINE 29/12 2008

[Anne Håkansson]

December 29th, 2009 is the new deadline for papers/abstracts submissions

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

                 The 3rd KES International Symposium on
      AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS - TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS
                             (KES-AMSTA-09)

        Uppsala, Sweden                        June 3 - June 5, 2009

                 http://amsta-09.kesinternational.org/


INTRODUCTION
KES-AMSTA-2009 is an international scientific symposium for research  
in the field of agent and multi-agent systems. The aim of the  
symposium is to provide an internationally respected forum for  
scientific research in the technologies and applications of agent and  
multi-agent systems.

Agents and multi-agent systems are related to a modern software  
paradigm which has long been recognized as a promising technology for  
constructing autonomous, complex and intelligent systems. This  
symposium will provide and excellent opportunity for researchers to  
discuss modern approaches and techniques for agent and multi-agent  
systems and their applications.

KES-AMSTA-2009 is organized by KES International and Uppsala  
University, Sweden, and will take place in Uppsala.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Papers: 30 November 2008 - EXTENDED TO: 29 December 2008
Notification of acceptance: 10 Jan. 2009
Final papers to be received: 1 Feb. 2009
Authors / Early registration: 16 Feb. 2009
Symposium: 4 Jun ? 5 Jun 2009

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Agent Systems
Formal models of agency. Agent architectures. BDI architecture.  
Learning, evolution, and adaptation. Perception and action.  
Communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics, protocols, and  
conversations. Knowledge representation Computational complexity.  
Autonomous or humanoid robots. Social robots and robot teams. Autonomy  
aspect. Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies.  
Embodied and believable agents. Emergent behaviour. Ontologies.

Multi-agent Systems
Cooperative distributed problem solving. Task and resource allocation.  
Mechanism design, auctions, and game theory. Modelling other agents  
and self. Multi-agent planning. Negotiation protocols. Multi-agent  
learning. Conflict resolution. Trust and reputation management.  
Privacy, safety and security. Scalability, robustness and  
dependability. Social and organizational structures. Verification and  
validation. Novel computing paradigms (autonomic, grid, P2P,  
ubiquitous computing). Brokering and matchmaking. Agent-oriented  
software engineering, including implementation languages and  
frameworks. Mobile agents. Per-formance, scalability, robustness, and  
dependability. Verification and validation. E-business agents.  
Pervasive computing. Privacy, safety, and security.

Tools and Applications
Simulation systems. Web services and service-oriented computing.  
Artificial social systems. Autonomic computing. Case studies and  
reports on deployments. Computational infrastructures. Information  
retrieval. Web services and semantic web. E-learning sys-tems.  
E-institutions. E-commerce.

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests on the  
indicated symposium topics and related areas of application. All  
contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or  
intended to be published during the review period. Contributions from  
more applied related fields in industry and commerce are very welcome.

All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must  
register for the conference and pay the fee. To ensure high quality,  
all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the KES-AMSTA-09  
International Programme Committee. The symposium proceedings are  
planned to be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series  
(subject to confirmation). Submitted papers should be prepared in  
LNCS/LNAI style and should not exceed 10 pages. Extended versions of  
selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues  
to be included in several journals indexed by ISI, KES Journal and  
Int. Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Ph.D.  
students are invited to submit papers to Doctoral Track. Special  
sessions are also welcome.

POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATION
A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers will be  
expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues for the  
following prestigious international journals and books:
- Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal   
(Springer, ISI/SCI indexed)
- International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge  
Engineering  (Springer, ISI/SCI indexed)
- Journal of Universal Computer Science (Graz University,  ISI/SCI indexed)
- Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems 17(3)  (IOS Press,  ISI/SCI indexed)
- International Journal of Intelligent Information and Databse Systems  
(Inderscience, EI, Inspec, DBLP indexed)
- Edited book (title will be announced later), to be published by  
Springer in series  Studies in Computational Intelligence
- Edited book (title will be announced later) to be published by IGI  
Global Publishers in series Computational Intelligence and its  
Applications


Note that only papers personally presented at the symposium will be  
considered for invitation to the special issues and books.

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
The symposium proceedings are planned to be published by  
Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series (subject to confirmation).  
Submitted papers should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and should not  
exceed 10 pages. Extended versions of selected papers will be  
considered for publication in special issues to be included in several  
journals indexed by ISI, KES Journal and Int. Journal of Intelligent  
Information and Database Systems. Ph.D. students are invited to submit  
papers to Doctoral Track. Special sessions are also welcome.

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEES
Honorary Chair: 	L. Magnusson, Uppsala University, Sweden
General Co-Chairs: 	A. Håkansson, Uppsala University, Sweden and
N.T. Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Executive Chair:	R.J. Howlett, University of Brighton, UK
Program Co-Chairs: 	R.L. Hartung, Franklin University, USA, and
D. Sharma, Canberra University, Australia
Local Organizing Chair: T. Palm, Uppsala University, Sweden
Publicity Co-Chairs: 	Z. Kiziltan, University of Bologna, Italy and
E. Moradian, Uppsala University, Sweden
Invited Session Chair: 	L.C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Doctoral Track Chair: 	A. Pietrusiewicz, Wroclaw University of  
Technology, Poland
KES-AMSTA-2009 is part of the AMSTA Series
Chair: N.T. Nguyen,
which is a sub-series of KES International Conference Series,

Chairs L.C. Jain and R.J. Howlett

CONTACT DETAILS
Email: amsta-09 at kesinternational.org

Postal Address:-
KES International_2nd Floor,
145-157 St John Street London
EC1V 4PY United Kingdom

Best regards,
KES-AMSTA-09 Organizing Committee