[ieeetcsc-discuss] Final CfP - WS Smart Grid Technologies @ AAMAS, May 2008, Portugal

[Omer F Rana]

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Final Call for Papers:                

                    Third International Workshop
                  "Smart Grid Technologies" (SGT-2008)
        <URL: http://conference.uni-mannheim.de/SGT2008>

              at the Seventh International Conference on
        Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008)
              <URL:http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/>

               May 12-13, 2008, Estoril, Portugal (EU)

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*** New Submission Deadline: February 1st, 2008

Notification of acceptance: February 25th, 2008
Camera-ready copies: March 8th, 2008

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Technical Description

Grid Computing is a novel and active research domain for complex,
dynamic, distributed and flexible resource sharing. Yet, current grid
work is largely focusing on issues of performance, scalability, and
standardization, while still weak on aspects of intelligence and
adaptability. Agent and multi-agent technologies provide a promising
approach to make grid technologies and solutions based on grid
technologies smarter and more flexible and adaptable. The kinds of
questions which rise in this research area are twofold: On the one hand,
technical questions concerning the Grid have to be solved, including
advanced Grid architectures, semantically enhanced service description,
and specification of resources. On the other hand issues related to
autonomy, collaboration, and economic models need to be tackled. Key
issues here are market-based allocation and scheduling of resources,
pricing, payment, automated negotiation, market mechanisms,
self-organization and learning, engineering of Grid marketplaces
including policies and many others. We propose this workshop as an
interdisciplinary forum to address relationships and synergies between
research on intelligent agents, multi-agent systems and grid computing.
The target group of this workshop are computer scientists (artificial
intelligence, distributed systems, autonomic computing), economists
(game theory, evolutionary economics, neo-institutional economics),
cognitive science researchers (strategic behaviour, automated
negotiation) and practitioners (from the Grid, energy market and
financial market domains).

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Keywords
Agent-based models, Grid Computing, Mechanism Design for Grid Markets,
Market Engineering, Market Simulation, Agent-based Computational
Economics.

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Topics of Interest
Within this workshop we intend to focus on the combination of
agent-based research approaches and the Grid technology. This is a novel
and promising field, in which fruitful research results are expected
within a short time. Contents for contributions to the Workshop will be:
* Modeling of Grid environments
* Agent-based mechanisms for Grid markets
* Resource allocation in Grid scenarios using agent-based approaches
* Automated negotiation for Grid resource allocation
* Agent-based simulation of Grid environments
* Agent-based Computational Economics for Grid
* Engineering of Grid markets and Grid architectures
* Technical research on future application domains
* Agent-based Policies for Grid markets

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Publication
We envisage post-workshop publication of selected and revised workshop
publications in a journal. 

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Submission Details
The workshop is soliciting full papers (8 pages) or, if presenting work
in progress, short papers (4 pages). The papers should be formatted
according to the formatting rules of AAMAS 2008, given at
http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/paper_submission.html. Please submit
all paper submissions via the http://conference.uni-mannheim.de/SGT2008
website. Every submitted paper will be reviewed using a single-blind
peer review of at least two reviewers.
 
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Important Dates
 February 1st 2008      Submission of contributions to SGT workshop
 February 25th 2008     Workshop paper acceptance notification
 March 8th 2008        Final paper submission
 May 12th or 13th 2008  SGT Workshop at AAMAS 2008 in Estoril, Portugal
	
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Program Committee
* Richard Anthony (University of Greenwich, UK)
* Bernhard Bauer (University of Augsburg, Germany)
* Jose Cunha (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
* Wolfgang Gentzsch (MCNC Grid Computing and Networking Services, USA)
* Sven Graupner (HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA)
* Sverker Janson (SICS, Sweden)
* Ramayya Krishnan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
* Dirk Neumann (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
* Fethi Rabhi (University of New South Wales, Australia)
* Jordi Sabater (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
* Carles Sierra (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
* Craig Thompson (University of Arkansas, USA)
* Christof Weinhardt (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
* Steven Willmott (3scale Networks, Barcelona, Spain)
* Ramin Yahyapour (University of Dortmund, Germany)

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Workshop Organizers

Torsten Eymann (primary contact person)
University of Bayreuth, Germany
Chair of Information Systems Management
95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Phone: +49 921 55 2807
torsten.eymann at uni-bayreuth.de

Omer F. Rana
Cardiff University, UK
School of Computer Science
o.f.rana at cs.cardiff.ac.uk

Daniel J. Veit
University of Mannheim, Germany
Chair of Business Administration and Information Systems
veit at uni-mannheim.de

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