[ieeetcsc-discuss] [INFO-2nd CFP] SAC 2008 MAS -- Call for Papers

Sat Aug 11 00:16:17 PDT 2007

Dear colleagues,

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this
message.

This is the 2nd CFP of "Mobile Agents and Systems (MAS)" track in SAC
2008.
Please forward this CFP to colleagues that may be interested in our
conference.
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                                                        Call For
Participation

               The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
(SAC '08)

                                                      Fortaleza,
Ceará, Brazil
                                                         March 16 -
20, 2008
                                    http://www.acm.org/conferences/
sac/sac2008/

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**SAC'08**

For the past twenty-two years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
has
been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer
engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around
the world.
SAC 2008 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied
Computing
(SIGAPP), and is hosted by the University of Fortaleza and the
Federal University
of Ceará, in Brazil.

**Special Track on Mobile Agents and Systems**

An agent is a computational entity that interacts with one or more
counterparts or
real-world systems with the following key features to varying
degrees: (a)
autonomy, (b) reactiveness, (c) pro-activeness, and (d) social
abilities. An agent
may also be mobile, in which case the agent migrates along with its
associated
data, state and logic to another host to interact with local
resources, other agents,
and remote hosts to perform a given task. Mobile agents offer several
capabilities
such as bandwidth-efficient and low latency communication, disconnected
operation, and support for development of highly dynamic and flexible
systems.
Several agents can collectively form a multi-agent system with
decentralized data
and a varying degree of global system control (potentially none at
all). In this track
we are interested in the combined issues of mobile and multi-agent
systems
(MMS) viewed from an applied perspective.

Issues of interactions between individual human-agent, agent-agent,
or groups is
of interest. Agents have to be designed to account for other agents and
infrastructures have to be deigned to facilitate such interaction.
Although theories
and models are important, much can be gained from applied work and
interesting
domains. Examples of naturally occurring and man-made multi-agent
systems
and domains are e-commerce, complex space missions, the game of
soccer, and
ant colonies. Business benefits from study of multi-agency include
(a) tools and
techniques for modeling existing organizations and their dynamics by
modeling the
interactions among individuals, (b) approaches to modeling and
engineering
electronic societies that extend automation in service of mankind,
and (c) new tools
for distributed knowledge-ware. While considered by many to be one of
the more
interesting approaches to the development and implementation of large
complex
systems, MMS are still controversial. There are those who view them
as just a fad
that in the long run will not be able to bring a significant
breakthrough in the
development of large complex systems. Finally, there are those who
believe that
these systems are just a repackaging of old ideas, and claim that
while nothing
particularly new is being brought to the table, there is potential in
this approach
from the application developer's viewpoint. We look forward to well
developed
contrary points of view.

**Areas of interest**

The Internet has provided a natural proving ground for the MMS. We
are interested
in applied aspects of multi-agency and agent mobility including the
following (this
list should not be treated as exclusive and other research areas can
also be
represented):

- Niche applications such as e-commerce, mobile business
applications, robotics,
      defense, manufacturing, and aerospace
- System architectures and software engineering
- Languages and protocols for communication and coordination
- Mobile agent systems security, fault tolerance and reliability
- Programming language paradigms and constructs for design,
implementation,
      and evaluation
- Agents that use game theory and decision theory
- Practical application of autonomy, delegation and control in
multiagent systems
- Applications that demonstrate systematic inter-agent interaction
including issues
      of sociability, benevolence, preference, power, trust, teaming,
norms, roles,
      teamwork, etc
- Applications that benefit from features unique to mobile agents
- Applications that provide quantitative measurements of mobile agent
performance
- Requirements for applications that are currently not satisfied by
mobile agent
      systems
- Designing applications and systems to support interfacing with
agent systems and
      mobile agents
- Integrating mobile agents with existing legacy systems

We exclude from this CFP, mobile communication networks, wireless
multimedia,
and discussions of devices that are hand-held, mobile, or embedded
unless they
appear in the context of agent systems.

We would like to extend invitation to the critics of the MMS approach
that can
scientifically demonstrate why the MMS framework will not lead to
realistic
breakthroughs. We are also interested in submissions from researchers of
foundations of MMS and developers of niche applications. We particularly
welcome papers that approach the MMS-related issues from different
perspectives e.g. decision theory versus belief, desire, and intention.

It should be stressed that this track appears in the context of the
conference
devoted to applied computing. Thus, submissions to this track have to
be applied
in nature.

**Submission Guidelines**

Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be
considered. This includes three categories of submissions: 1)
original and
unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative computing applications
in the arts,
sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry;
and 3)
reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. Each
submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review
process by at
least three referees. Accepted papers in all categories will be
published in the
ACM SAC'08 proceedings. Submission guidelines must be strictly followed.
Submit your paper electronically at
http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2008/SubmitAbstract.aspx. Papers must be
submitted
electronically in either PDF (preferred) or postscript format.

The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the
paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to
facilitate blind
review.

The total number of pages per paper is five (5) pages. A maximum of
three (3)
additional pages may be included for additional fee. A separate cover
sheet (in
the case of electronic submission this should be sent separately from
the main
paper) should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and
affiliation(s),
and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and FAX) to which
correspondence
should be sent.

Anyone wishing to review papers for this special track should contact
the Track
Program Chair(s) at the address shown at Track Program Chairs section.

**Important Dates**

Sept. 8, 2007: Paper submissions
Oct. 16, 2007: Author notification
Oct. 30, 2007: Camera-Ready Copy

**Track Program Chairs**

Shaham Rahimi - Southern Illinois University, rahimi at cs.siu.edu
Costin Badica - University of Craiova, badica_costin at software.ucv.ro
Maria Ganzha - EUH-E and IBS PAN, Maria.Ganzha at ibspan.waw.pl
Marcin Paprzycki - SWPS and IBS PAN, mpaprzycki at swps.edu.pl
Yung-Chuan Alex Lee - Southern Illinois University, ylee at cs.siu.edu

**Track Web Site**

Most recent information about this track may be found at the AIMS
2008 web site
at http://ocean.cs.siu.edu/aims/2008.

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Marcin Paprzycki
WWW site: 		http://mpaprzycki.swps.edu.pl
Agent research: 	http://agentlab.swps.edu.pl
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