[AAMAS-10] - Call for Papers: Industry and Applications track

[Jordi Sabater Mir]

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Call for Papers: Industry and Applications track - AAMAS-2010
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**** Introduction

The AAMAS Industry Track is a special track of the AAMAS conference that offers 
a globally unique opportunity to present and promote industrial and commercial 
applications of agent technologies. Due to the growing maturity of the field there 
are now agent-based applications in widespread use across multiple domains that 
are responsible for the generation of significant revenue. This event provides 
the ideal forum to present and discuss your work; to inform and inspire the 
largest international gathering of agent technology researchers and practitioners 
with presentations and demonstrations of your compelling applications, success 
stories and new business ideas. It is our intention that the 2010 event actively 
works to promote the fostering of mutually beneficial relationships between members 
of the AAMAS community who are engaged in foundational scientific research and those 
who are working to make autonomous agents and multi-agent systems a commercial reality.

**** Topics and Issues of Interest

The AAMAS Industry Track invites submissions of short (4-page) or long (8-page) 
papers that describe autonomous agent and multi-agent systems that have been 
incorporated into for-profit or non-profit products or services, or that demonstrate 
a clear potential to be so included. Application domains of interest include, but 
are not limited to:

    * telecommunication, media and entertainment
    * bio-technology, pharmaceutical and health care
    * financial systems and services
    * manufacturing, automation, and logistics
    * enterprise systems
    * large-scale and grid systems management
    * transportation and telematics
    * ambient intelligence, intelligent buildings and smart cities
    * surveillance and security
    * e-government 

Authors are advised and encouraged to address the following questions in their paper:

    * Why is your chosen application domain important to industry and/or society? 
What are typical use cases?
    * What is the rationale for using agent-based technology in your application, 
as opposed to a more traditional approach?
    * If you have deployed your technology commercially, what specific or general 
insights have you gained from the experience?
    * Have you experienced (or do you foresee) technical challenges or market-based 
barriers to adoption, and if so how did (or might) you address them?
    * What improvements or external factors might facilitate wider-spread adoption of 
your technology?
    * What improvements in fundamental agent technology might improve your application, 
or enable it to be adopted more broadly?
    * In financial terms, or any other appropriate measure of benefit, what is the 
present value of your technology to customers, industry, or government, and what is its 
ultimate potential?


**** What is the relationship between AAMAS Industry Track and AAMAS?

The AAMAS Industry Track is an essential and integral part of the AAMAS conference. It 
runs concurrently with the regular AAMAS scientific track, and all accepted papers are 
included in the general conference proceedings.

The AAMAS Industry Track mandates the same high level of quality that has come to be 
expected of the AAMAS scientific track. The expectation is that authors must make a 
concerted effort to address the issues and questions identified in "Topics and Issues 
of Interest", as appropriate to their paper. We discourage the submission of purely 
speculative papers or papers whose primary contribution is scientific, as these ought 
to have been submitted to the regular conference track.

Authors submitting a paper to the AAMAS Industry Track are encouraged to submit a demo 
of their agent-based application to the AAMAS Demonstration session 

http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/index.php#content=call4_demo_proposal


**** Submission instructions and dates

Please format your paper according to standard AAMAS guidelines. AAMAS style guides, as 
well as templates and style sheets for Microsoft Word and LaTeX can be found here. 

http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/index.php#content=authors_instructions

Papers must be 8 pages (regular paper) or 4 pages (short paper), including figures and 
references, when formatted using the specified style. Papers should be formatted for 
standard Letter paper size. (i.e. not A4). Over-length papers will be rejected. 
Notification of receipt of the electronic paper will be mailed to the first author 
(or designated author) soon after receipt.

To submit your paper, please register your abstract at 

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aamas2010industrytrack) 

before 11:59pm, December 8, 2009 (UTC), and then submit an electronic copy of your 
completed paper to the same site by 11:59pm, December 15, 2009 (UTC).

We strongly encourage submissions in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format), but will 
accept submissions in Postscript if PDF is infeasible. We will not accept papers in any 
other format (e.g., MS Word) because of compatibility problems between software versions, 
machines, and nationalities. We cannot accept title pages or papers submitted by FAX. 
Submissions received after this deadline will not be considered for review.

Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the 
first author (or designated author) by January 23, 2010. Note that at least one author 
of each accepted paper is required to register and to attend the conference to present 
the work.

In summary, here are the critical dates:

* Deadline for paper information: December 8, 2009
* Deadline for paper submission: December 15, 2009
* Notification of acceptance or rejection: January 23, 2010
* Final versions due: February 8, 2010

For more information, contact the track co-chairs at 

aamas2010industrytrack at easychair.org


**** Policy on Multiple Submissions

The AAMAS 2009 Industry Track will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, 
is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal 
or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere 
during the AAMAS review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, 
not to workshops and similar specialized presentations with a limited audience and no 
formal proceedings.

**** Track Co-Chairs

Dominic Greenwood
Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland  

Jeff Kephart
IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, USA


**** Program Committee

Jeremy Baxter, QinetiQ
Michael Berger, DocuWare AG
Sven Bruckner, NewVectors LLC
Paul Buhler, Modus 21
Bernard Burg, Panasonic Laboratories
Klaus Dorer, Offenburg University
James Hanson, IBM Research
Tarek Helmy, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Martin Hofmann, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories
Takahiro Kawamura, Toshiba
Michael Kerstetter, Boeing
Dejan Milojicic, Hewlett Packard Laboratories
James Odell, CSC
Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University
Michael Pirker, Siemens AG
Maarten Sierhuis, NASA
Elizabeth Sklar, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Simon Thompson, BT Research
Shigeo Matsubara, Kyoto University
Steven Willmott, 3Scale Networks
Gaku Yamamoto, IBM and Tokyo Institute of Technology
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