[ieeetcsc-discuss] [Fwd: [INFO-CFP] SAC 2008 MAS -- Call for Papers]

Thu Jul 5 05:28:56 PDT 2007

Dear colleagues,

Please forward this CFP to colleagues that may be interested in our
conference and excuse possible reception of multiple copies.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Track on Mobile Agents and Systems (MAS)
to take place during
the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
to be held at the beach in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil (2008)
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/

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 CearaÃÅ, 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.

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

Program Committee
{To be decided}

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.

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 above.

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

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Marcin Paprzycki
WWW site: 		http://mpaprzycki.swps.edu.pl
Agent research: 	http://agentlab.swps.edu.pl
Multiconference:	http://www.imcsit.org
SCPE Journal:		http://www.scpe.org
Gazeta IT:		http://www.gazeta-it.pl
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