-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: 2ndCfP: Self-organizing multi-agent systems: Technologies and applications - KES-AMSTA'14 Datum: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:01:31 +0100 (CET) Von: KES-AMSTA'14 Publicity kesamsta2014@fer.hr An: gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at Kopie (CC): fernandez@iiia.csic.es

******************************************************************************************************************** Self-organizing multi-agent systems: Technologies and applications Invited Session http://agents.usluge.tel.fer.hr/KES-AMSTA14

Invited Session of the 8th International KES Conference on Agents and Multi-agent Systems -Technologies & Applications (AMSTA-14) http://amsta-14.kesinternational.org/

June 18 - 20, 2014 Chania - Crete, Greece

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Multi-agent systems are composed of multiple interacting software components also known as agents who are capable of cooperating to solve problems that are beyond the abilities of any of them individually. Moreover, for scale, distribution or reasons due to uncertain environments, interactions among agents need to be realized in a completely decentralized and autonomous way. We can achieve all of the aforementioned if modeling multi-agent systems as self-organizing systems. Namely, by its definition self-organization is a process in which a global behavior emerges from the local interaction between different entities without any centralized control. Even though self-organizing systems have been widely applied and their potentials are strongly recognized in many different application areas (e.g., swarm robotics, sensor networks and network optimization), the engineering of self-organizing system is still in a very early stage. Analogously to the software applications in the 60s, nowadays self-organizing systems have to be built from scratch. However, firstly there is a lack of simulators and tools that allow developers to build their prototypes and validate their applications. Secondly, there is also a lack of execution models and new paradigms for carrying on computations among a set of entities with computational capabilities. Therefore, this invited session aims to connect researchers interested in self-organizing systems engineering, providing them a place for presenting and discussing new ideas that could contribute to the better understanding of the self-organizing systems engineering and transferring that knowledge to the industrial applications.

The subject areas will include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Self-organizing design patterns - Execution models for self-organization - Architectural styles for self-organization - Bio-inspired self-organizing systems - Adaptation in self-organizing systems - Validation of self-organizing systems - Design and development of self-organizing systems - Tools and simulators for self-organizing systems engineering - Controlling emergent behavior in self-organizing systems - Self-organizing mechanisms in theory and practice - Methodologies for engineering self-organizing systems - Industrial applications of self-organizing systems - Software Engineering techniques for self-organization

------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------

*** Feb. 3, 2014: Paper Submission *** March 3, 2014: Author Notification March 10, 2014: Camera-Ready Copy March 14, 2014: Author Registration

------------------------ Program Co-Chairs ------------------------

Iva Bojic University of Zagreb http://agents.usluge.tel.fer.hr//iva.bojic email: Iva.Bojic@fer.hr

Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez University of Geneva http://www.cui.unige.ch/~fernajos/ email: joseluis.fernandez@unige.ch

Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo University of Geneva http://cui.unige.ch/~dimarzo/ email: joseluis.fernandez@unige.ch

---------------------------------------- Program Committee Members ----------------------------------------

Richard Anthony, Greenwich University, UK Jake Beal, BBN technologies, USA Juan Carlos Burguillo-Rial, University of Vigo, Spain Jesus Cerquides, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Onder Gurcan, CEA LIST, France & Ege University, Turkey Tomislav Lipic, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia Sara Montagna, University of Bologna, Italy Meritxell Vignyals, Southampton University, UK Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy Juan Ye, University of St. Andrews, UK Hung La, Rutgers University, USA

... to be completed

--------------------- Proceedings ---------------------

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in their Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing series, index/abstracted* in ISI Proceedings, DBLP. Ulrich's, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math, MetaPress and Springerlink.

------------------------------------- Paper submission and format -------------------------------------

Papers are invited for the conference on topics lying within the scope of the conference. All contributions must be of high quality, original, should not have been published elsewhere and should not be intended for publication elsewhere during the review period or time of the conference.

To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the conference Review Committee. Papers may be rejected without being sent to the reviewers if they are too long or if it is judged that they do not lie sufficiently within the scope of the conference.

The papers will be scheduled for presentation either orally or by poster, depending on their attributes, author preferences and referee recommendations. Please note that poster presentations are regarded as being of equal importance to oral presentations.

Submissions must be formatted according to the instructions which can be found on the Springer website (http://www.springer.com/series/11156) under "Instructions for Authors".

Papers must be submitted in PDF format for review purposes, but authors are required to upload editable word-processor files (LaTeX or MS Word) at the end of the review process.

The required paper length is 10 pages in publisher format. Papers longer than this may be subject to an additional charge. Papers much longer or shorter than the required length may be rejected, at the decision of the organisers.

Papers to be considered for the conference must be submitted in PDF form through the PROSE online submission and review system (http://amsta-14.kesinternational.org/prose.php)