CFP: Agent Communication @ AAMAS 2010

[Alexander Artikis]

Submission Deadline Extended:

Submission of abstracts 	:   	February 10, 2010
Submission of papers 	: 	February 17, 2010

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Call for Papers: Workshop on Agent Communication

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You are cordially invited to submit papers to:



Workshop on Agent Communication (AC 2010) at the International Joint

  Conference on Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto



Agent communication research seeks to address challenges in the

development of open multiagent systems.  Open systems consist of

multiple autonomous and heterogeneous agents who communicate in order

to exchange or negotiate information, knowledge, and services.  As

such, advances in agent communication are critical to advances in the

software engineering of applications as diverse as business processes,

negotiation and argumentation, virtual organizations, e-governance,

collaborative design, and so on.



We invite quality submissions that develop new insights, high-level

abstractions, patterns, languages, formal theories, reasoning, and

methodologies for agent communication.  We will also appreciate

submissions concerning experiences in application development,

programming language and tool support, and communication middleware.

Proposals for standardization are also welcome.



Specifically, the workshop's focus includes the following topics in

relation to agent communication.



* Languages (ACLs)

* Protocols

* Dialogs

* Argumentation

* Virtual organizations, institutions

* Commitments, norms, and other social concepts

* Speech acts and illocutionary logic

* Trust and deception

* Correctness properties and verification

  ** compliance,

  ** interoperability,

  ** conformance, and so on.

* Relating agent communication to agent design and execution strategies

  ** game-theoretic,

  ** BDI,

  ** learning, and so on

* Multiagent system architecture

* Programming languages

* Middleware

* Patterns



The workshop will provide a great opportunity to discuss emerging

techniques and identify future trends toward agent communication.  The

workshop will include an invited talk and one or more position

statements by accomplished researchers. Selected papers from the

workshop proceedings will be published as a Springer LNCS volume.



Program committee:



Nicoletta Fornara, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland

Marco Colombetti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey

Marc-Philippe Huget, University of Savoie, France

Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK

Koen Hindriks, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Michael Rovatsos, University of Edinburgh, UK

Rogier van Eijk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Xavier Parent, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool, UK

Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy

Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy

Michael N. Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA

Nirmit Desai, IBM Research, India



The workshop is guided by a steering committee consisting of:



Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Andrew J. I. Jones, King's College London, UK.

Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA.



Organizers:



Amit K. Chopra, University of Trento, Italy.

Alexander Artikis, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece.

Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada.

Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.