CPF: (ASAmI'08) 2nd Symposium on "Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence"

[F Sadri]

Dear All,

To be in line with the other AISB'08 Symposiums and avoid clashes with 
deadlines for other events, we have extended the deadline for paper 
submission to ASAMI '08 to the 31st of January.
We hope that this gives you and your group enough time to consider 
submitting a paper. As with ASAMI '07 we have agreement of a follow-up 
special issue journal.

Best regards,

Kostas and Fariba




2nd Symposium on
"*Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence*"
(ASAmI'08)
AISB Convention,
<http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/index.html> 3rd April
2008, Aberdeen, UK.

SEE:  http://asami08.cs.rhul.ac.uk/

*Background & Motivation *

The vision of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is 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.

For a large class of the envisaged AmI applications, the added value of 
these new services is likely to be for people in ordinary social 
contexts. Such applications beg for technologies that are transparent, 
so that their functional behaviour can be understood easily. Put simply, 
transparency should bring AmI interactions closer to the way people 
think rather than the way machines operate.

Another challenge posed by the AmI vision is that the electronic part of 
the ambience will often need to act intelligently on behalf of people. 
The conceptual components of ambience will need to be both reactive and 
proactive, behaving as if they were agents that act on behalf of people. 
It would be more natural, in other words, to use the agent metaphor in 
order to understand components of an intelligent ambience. An agent in 
this context can be a software (or hardware) entity that can sense and 
affect the environment, has knowledge of the environment and its own 
goals, and can proactively plan to achieve its goals or those of its 
user(s), so that the combined interactions of the electronic and 
physical environment provide a desirable outcome for one or more people.

If we assume that agents are abstractions for the interaction within an 
ambient intelligent environment, one aspect that we need to ensure is 
that their behaviour is regulated and coordinated, so that the system as 
a whole functions effectively. For this purpose, we need rules that take 
into consideration the social context in which these interactions take 
place, and the whole system begs for an organisation similar to that 
envisaged by artificial agent societies. The society is there not only 
to regulate behaviour but also to distribute responsibility amongst the 
member agents.

*Goals*

We expect that the symposium will help develop scenarios for the use of 
agent societies for AmI, establish a body of knowledge and a theoretical 
framework in this context, use the framework to link existing work on 
related areas such as the semantic web, cognitive and social agents, and 
ambient and ubiquitous technologies. We also anticipate to present 
current research in the area of agent societies for AmI, where people 
activities are mapped onto social organisations of agents, computing 
devices or both, and assess the outcomes of such research. The symposium 
will identify issues for future investigation, establish links between 
researchers and encourage international collaborations.

* Topics *

Topics of relevance to the symposium include, but are not limited to, 
the following:
 * Social architectures
 * Agent interaction
 * Reasoning and knowledge representation
 * Reactivity and pro-activity
 * Learning
 * 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

This workshop complements previous events, such as the /European 
Symposium on Ambient Intelligence,/ and ongoing events, such as /ESAW/ 
and /AITAmI/ workshop series.


*Important Dates*
Submission Deadline: 31 January 2008

*Submission*
Submission is now open through OpenConf.

*Proceedings*
A printed volume of the proceedings will be available at the symposium. 
Selected best papers of ASAMI2008 would be considered as a special issue 
of the /International Journal on Autonomous and Adaptive Communications 
Systems/. IJCAS intends to be the leader journal in the area.


*Co-Chairs *
Dr. Fariba Sadri
fs @ doc.ic.ac.uk
Department of Computing
Imperial College, U.K.

Dr. Kostas Stathis
kostas @ cs.rhul.ac.uk
Department of Computer Science,
Royal Holloway, U. of London, U.K.


*Program Committee*

Alexander Artikis
(NCSR Demokritos, Greece)

Juan Carlos Augusto
(University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK)

Cristiano Castelfranchi
(CNR, Italy)

Oscar DeBruijn
(University of Manchester, UK)

Paul J. Feltovitch
(IHMC, USA)

Marie-Pierre Gleizes
(IRIT, France)

Gregory O'Hare
(University College Dublin, Ireland)

Andrea Omicini
(University of Bologna, Italy)

Paolo Petta
(Medical Univ. of Vienna, Austria)

Jeremy Pitt
(Imperial College, UK)

Eric Platon
(NII, Japan)

Alessandro Ricci
(University of Bologna, Italy)

Nicolas Sabouret
(Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, France)

Fariba Sadri
(Imperial College, UK)

Rob Saunders
(University of Sydney, Australia)

Daniel Shapiro
(Stanford University, USA)

Maarten Sierhuis
(NASA, US)

Kostas Stathis
(Royal Holloway - U. of London, UK)

Francesca Toni
(Imperial College, UK)

George Vouros
(University of Aegean, Greece)

Pinar Yolum
(Bogazici University, Turkey)