-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [wkwi] Re: Call for Papers: AOSE 2012 - 13th Int. Workshop on Agent-OrientedSoftware Engineering Datum: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:40:44 +0100 (CET) Von: "Jörg P. Müller"joerg.mueller@tu-clausthal.de Antwort an: postmaster@idefix.buva.sowi.uni-bamberg.de

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Call For Papers 13th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering AOSE 2012

Held with AAMAS 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 4, 2012

http://winf.in.tu-clausthal.de/events/aose12

MOTIVATION

Since the early 1990s, multi-agent system researchers have developed a large body of knowledge on the foundations and engineering principles for designing and developing agent-based systems. The 12 past editions of the agent-oriented software engineering workshop (AOSE) had a key role in this endeavor. For 2012, the workshop organizers and the steering committee propose to organize an edition of AOSE workshop aimed at exploring the new emerging role of agent-oriented software engineering as a bridge from the now consolidated agent oriented programming languages and platforms, to recent systems modelling paradigms like self-*, autonomic systems, and systems of systems (SoS). Thus, it is our hope to explore from an agent-based perspective, foundations, models, methods, architectures, and tools for engineering future software-intensive IT eco-systems.

The workshop organizers plan to publish accepted papers on a USB stick as part of the AAMAS workshop registration package. Revised post-proceedings papers will later be published in a volume of the Lecture Notes for Computer Science series.

GOALS and TOPICS

The general goal of this year workshop is twofold: The first goal is to study the role of agent-oriented software engineering in the design phase of agents development. It is well known and accepted that agents - from the software engineering perspective - are of particular interest as an analysis abstraction. This has been true for several years but the most recent advancements in agent-oriented programming languages have proposed new challenges: software engineers may now design and code their solutions in terms of agents. The old need of moving to the object-oriented level of abstraction is overpassed and the new developing platforms allow for a more natural transformation of AO analysis models into AO design models. This reality has been soon perceived by researcher and practitioners. An example of this new trend may be found in the refreshed interest about testing of agents.

The second goal concerns the other side of the proposed ideal bridge: the needs of new design approaches specifically suited for facing the needs of self-organizing systems, autonomic systems and systems of systems. In the last years we have seen considerable research efforts on these topics; however, only few of them have their scope and foundations in the software engineering field.

Novel efforts are necessary to cope with these new challenges in order to find specific solutions that could bring such systems from research to industrialization. In this context, a means for bridging the above mentioned research (and application) streams may come from the advances on organizations, norms, and institutions. Are they mature enough for being applied to stable agent-oriented languages and for contributing to the engineering of self-organizing and autonomic systems? The proposed aim is find an answer to this question or to propose further hints for future investigations on the application of organizations, norms and institutions to the design of agent-oriented systems.

Topics of regular papers include but are not restricted to:

* Agent-based concepts for systems of systems engineering * Agent-based solutions for managing complexity in software engineering * Agents and model-driven approaches * Agents and services * Agents for self-adaptive systems * Alignment of agents with service-oriented software development * Autonomy vs. dependability and robustness * CASE tools to support agent-oriented software development in practice * Coordination infrastructures for multi-agent systems * Engineering multi-agent organizations * Engineering self-organizing systems * Goal-oriented design * Implications of introducing agent-based solutions on the development organization * Integration of agents with legacy systems * Middleware integration of agent-based software * Multi-agent based simulation * Programming agents and multi-agent systems * Qualities and tradeoffs of agent-based architectures * Reusable design knowledge: patterns and reference architectures * Social engineering * Software architectures for multi-agent systems * Standardization efforts for multi-agent systems * Testing of agent-based software * Validation of agent technology in practice * Verification of agent-based software

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

AOSE welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers with a clear research focus on the topics outlined above. Each paper will be evaluated by three members of the PC. Papers that present a valuable idea that needs further development can be accepted as a short paper.

SUBMISSIONS

Papers should be between 10 and 12 pages, including the text, figures, and references. The submissions must be formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style. PDF format is required. Papers can be submitted via EasyChair 'AOSE2012', https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aose2012 The good receipt of your submission will be confirmed by email.

PUBLICATIONS

Pre-proceedings containing all accepted papers are provided electronically on a USB stick as part of the AAMAS workshop registration package. The plan is to publish revised versions of accepted papers in a Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. For this purpose, authors will be given the opportunity to revise and re-submit their contributions after the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: 28th February 2012 Paper notifications: 27th March 2012 Camera ready paper (pre-proceedings): 10th April 2012 Workshop: 4th June 2012

COMMITTEES

Organizing Committee * Massimo Cossentino, National Research Council of Italy, Palermo, Italy * Jörg P. Müller, Technische Universitat Clausthal, Institut für Informatik, Germany

Preliminary Program Committee:

Carole Bernon, Universite Paul Sabatier, France Lars Braubach, University of Hamburg, Germany Scott A. Deloach, Kansas State University, USA Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France Giancarlo Fortino, Universita della Calabria, Italy Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia Holger Giese, University of Potsdam, Germany Adriana Giret, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Universite Paul Sabatier, France Jorge Gomez-Sanz, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain Juan Carlos Gonzalez Moreno, Universidad de Vigo, Ourense, Spain Joao Leite, University of Lisbon, Portugal Philippe Mathieu, Universite Lille 1, France Frederic Migeon, Universite Paul Sabatier, France Ambra Molesini, University of Bologna, Italy Pavlos Moraitis, Universite Paul Descartes, France Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy Flavio Oquendo, Universite de Bretagne Sud, France Juan Pavon, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy Fariba Sadri, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, England Valeria Seidita, University of Palermo, Italy Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel Danny Weyns, Linnaeus University, Sweden

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