-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [wkwi] CfP WS on Smart Grid Technologies, AAMAS Conference, May 2008, Portugal Datum: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:09:48 +0100 (CET) Von: Torsten Eymann Torsten.Eymann@uni-bayreuth.de Antwort an: postmaster@idefix.buva.sowi.uni-bamberg.de An: undisclosed-recipients:;

Mit der Bitte um Verständnis für etwaige Doppelzusendungen, und besten Wünschen für ein frohes Weihnachtsfest und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr! ======================================================================== Call for Papers:

Third International Workshop "Smart Grid Technologies" (SGT-2008) <URL: http://conference.uni-mannheim.de/SGT2008%3E

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)

Submission deadline: January 25, 2008

======================================================================== 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).

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

======================================================================== 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

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

======================================================================== 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.

======================================================================== Important Dates January 25th 2008 Submission of contributions to SGT workshop February 25th 2008 Workshop paper acceptance notification March 12th 2008 Final paper submission May 12th or 13th 2008 SGT Workshop at AAMAS 2008 in Estoril, Portugal ======================================================================== 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)

======================================================================== 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@uni-bayreuth.de

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

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