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C A L L F O R P A P E R S

International Journal on Multiagent and Grid Systems (IOS Press) Special Issue on ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTS FOR MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS

Eds. Danny Weyns and Andrea Omicini e4mas@cs.kuleuven.Be

http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~distrinet/events/e4mas/2006/mags/ http://www.iospress.nl/html/15741702.php

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline : March 15, 2007 Paper notification : April 30, 2007 Camera ready paper : May 31, 2007 Planned publication : September, 2007

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INTRODUCTION

The successful series of workshops on Environments for Multiagent Systems (E4MAS) at the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2004, 2005, and 2006 have put the environment on the agenda of the multiagent system research community. Research on environments recognizes the environment as a first-class abstraction in multiagent systems. On the one hand, the environment is an essential part of any multiagent system, it is the part of the world in with which the agents interact and in which the effects of the agents will be observed and evaluated. On the other hand, the environment can also be used creatively in the design of multiagent systems. Agents can exploit the environment to share information and coordinate their behavior. A clean separation of agent and environment concerns helps to manage the huge complexity of engineering complex real-world applications.

FOCUS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE

The focus of this special issue is on the engineering of environments in multiagent systems (MAS). Topics include but are not limited to:

- Responsibilities of environments in MAS - Modularization of environments - Software architecture and patterns for environments in MAS - Agent architecture versus environment architecture - Design and implementation of environment infrastructure for perception, interaction, and communication - Environment support for social structures (organizations, roles...) - Design and implementation of indirect interaction and stigmergic approaches (use of marks, digital pheromones, field-based approaches, overhearing, tag-based interaction, etc.) - Topology and distribution of environments - Middleware and environments for MAS - Aspect-oriented software development for environments in MAS - Environments for emergence and self-organizing systems - Environments for MAS and autonomic properties (self-configuration, self-tuning, self-healing, etc.) - Engineering of electronic institutions - Engineering of law governed interaction - Environment support for service-oriented agent systems - Environment support for mobile and ad-hoc agent systems - Environments in MAS simulation - Experiences with developing MAS applications in which the environment plays a central role

SUBMISSIONS

We welcome the submission of original research papers that are not under review for a workshop, conference or other journal. We seek theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers.

Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three reviewers. Selection criteria include: relevance, technical correctness, originality of the contribution and quality of exposition.

The submission should be 15-18 pages in length, including figures and references. The paper must be formatted according to the MAGS style (http://www.iospress.nl/html/15741702_ita.html). Submissions must be sent in PDF format to mags-e4mas@cs.kuleuven.be.

GUEST EDITORS

Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy

INFO - CONTACT

Website: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~distrinet/events/e4mas/2006/mags/ Email: e4mas@cs.kuleuven.be

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