CFP - MASSS @ PAAMS 2012

[Antonio Fernández Caballero]

Dear colleague,

Apologies for multiple copies
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Call for Papers Multi-Agent Systems for Safety and Security
http://www.paams.net/?q=node/28

Special Session at 10th Practical Applications of Agents and 
Multi-Agents Systems (PAAMS 2012)
28th - 30th March 2012, Salamanca, Spain

------DESCRIPTION------

Nowadays, a critical concern in our daily life is to face up problems 
related to citizen safety and security. In this special session, 
contributions which solve safety and security problems that can arise in 
two proposed scenarios are sought.

The first scenario is monitoring and surveillance of physical 
environments for the recognition of situations, activities and 
interactions among the different participating agents (e.g. humans, 
cars, aircrafts, vessels or ships, etc). This scenario is not restricted 
to visual sensors but also to other sensors capable of complementing or 
confirming the information extracted from video signal. The second 
scenario that attracts our interest is the World Wide Web. In this case, 
papers providing solutions to protect the users against malicious 
software are welcome.

In the context of these two kinds of scenarios, solutions taking account 
basic characteristics of the agents (autonomy, reactivity, 
pro-activeness and social ability), as well as the inherent 
characteristics of multi-agent systems such as distributed data 
management, low coupling, robustness, communication and coordination 
between autonomous entities, can be very useful to detect and prevent 
problematic situations.

The aim of this special session is affording the opportunity for 
interested researchers in these kinds of subjects to meet and discuss on 
the contributed solutions that mainly use the capabilities of 
multi-agent systems.

------PUBLICATION------

Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 2012 Proceedings. At least one 
of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to 
present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference 
proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag. 
Selected papers of the Special Session will be invited to be extended 
for special issues of a journal (under negotiation).

------SUBMISSION DETAILS------

Papers submitted to this workshop must not have been accepted for 
publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or 
conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the PC members.

Submissions should be in PDF format 10 pages in length, including 
figures and references for the PAAMS 2012 using the Advances in 
Intelligent and Soft Computing Series Springer template, according to 
the detailed formatting instructions at: 
http://www.springer.com/series/4240?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCounter=156163

A specific submission site within the Easychair platform will be used to 
receive the contributions at: 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paams12

------IMPORTANT DATES------

Paper submission deadline: 10th November, 2011
Acceptance notification: 16th December, 2011
Final version submission: 9th January, 2012
Conference dates: 28th - 30th March, 2012

------ORGANIZERS AND PC CHAIRS------

Antonio Fernández-Caballero, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Elena María Navarro Martínez, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

------PROGRAM COMMITTEE------

Giuliano Armano, University of Cagliari, Italy
Javier Albusac, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Federico Castanedo, Universidad de Deusto, Spain
Rita Cucchiara, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Antonio Fernández-Caballero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Francisco Garijo, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France
Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, 
France
Zahia Guessoum, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, France
Rafel Martínez-Tomás, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
Takashi Matsuyama, Kyoto University, Japan
José Manuel Molina, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Juan Pavón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Milind Tambe, University of Southern California, USA
(TO BE EXTENDED)


Best regards,

Professor Antonio Fernández-Caballero
University of Castilla-La Mancha

Associate Professor Elena Navarro
University of Castilla-La Mancha