-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] CfP Int. WS on Cyber-Physical Systems and Agents (CyPhySyA) as part of Multiagent System Technologies (MATES) and Joint Agent Workshops in Synergy (JAWS), Koblenz (Germany), 15th-19th Sept. 2013 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:12:47 +0100 From: Rainer Unland rainer.unland@icb.uni-due.de Organization: University Duisburg-Essen To: undisclosed-recipients:;

First International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems and Agents

(CyPhySyA)

as part of the joint conference on

Multiagent System Technologies (MATES) and

Joint Agent Workshops in Synergy (JAWS)

Koblenz (Germany), 15th-19th Sept. 2013

*Links*

CyPhySyA:http://www.icb.uni-due.de/cyphysya/

MATES/JAWS:http://www.mates2013.de/jaws/

Informatik (GI conf.) 2013:http://informatik2013.de/giconference.html

*Important dates*

Submission date1 May 2013

Notification date7 June 2013

Paper ready deadline28 June 2013

Conference dates15-19 Sept. 2013

Workshop motivation and topics

The recent technological advances in wireless communications and the increasing availability of sensors, actuators, and mobile devices have created an exciting new ubiquitous computing environment that facilitates computing and communication services all the time and everywhere. This lays the foundation for so-called cyber-physical systems (CPS). These are integrations of computational, network, and physical systems, whose operations are monitored, coordinated, controlled and integrated by a computing and communication core. Relevant application areas are the areas of transportation, health-care, manufacturing, agriculture, energy, defense, aerospace, robotic and buildings. Cyber-physical systems have the potential to transform how we interact with the physical world around us. The design, implementation, verification and management of cyber-physical systems pose a multitude of technical challenges that need to be addressed by researchers from a multitude of different disciplines. Additionally, in any case, a paper to be acceptable needs to be related to agent-technology.

Examples of areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

. Architecture of CPS

. Engineering design techniques and tools for CPS

. Systems Software and Network Supports

. Verification, Validation, and Certification of CPS:

. Robustness and Safety of CPS

. Real-time System Abstractions

. Agents and Cyber-Physical Systems

. CPS and QoS Composition Challenges

. Real-Time Embedded Systems Abstractions

. Interactions between engineering structures, information processing, humans and the physical world

. Sensor and Mobile Networks

. Education and Training

. Computational Abstractions for CPS

. SOAs and middleware for CPS

. Security, privacy and trust in Cyber-Physical Systems

. Applications of CPS in the areas of transportation, health-care, manufacturing, agriculture, energy, defense, aerospace, robotic and buildings

*Structure of CyPhySyA*

CyPhySyA will be a full-day workshop and will include several presentation sessions for the accepted paper as well as invited papers on topics of overall interest in order to kick off intense and lively discussions. It is intended to end the workshop with a panel/discussion round in which the relevant results of the workshop will be discussed.

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*Review Process*

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 Program Committee members. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation, practical applicability. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes. In general, papers to be acceptable, must be of substantial relevance for the multi-agent systems research community.

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*Journal publication of excellent papers*

It is intended to invite authors of excellent papers to submit an extended version of their paper to the IOS Multiagent and Grid Systems journal (MAGS). This journal has a high reputation and is often classified as a B-class journal. If enough high quality papers will be submitted it is planned to publish them as a special issue, otherwise as regular papers.

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*Workshop organizers/PC Chairs*

Edward Curry, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland, edcurry at acm.org

Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK, h.tianfield at gcal.ac.uk

Rainer Unland (primary contact), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de

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*Program Committee*

Alois Ferscha, Institut für Pervasive Computing, Austria

Amit P. Sheth, Wright State University, USA

Andreas Oberweis, Uni Karlsruhe, Germany

Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania

Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland

Shanmugasundaram Hariharan, TRP Engineering College (SRM), India

Frances Brazier, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Hong Zhu, Brookes University, UK

Jiming Liu, Baptist University, Hong Kong

Jörg Denzinger, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Martin Randles, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Mohamed Elammari, Garyounis University, Libya

Mohamed Essaaidi, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco

Otthein Herzog, University of Bremen, Germany

Peter Novák, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic

Pilar Herrero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Radovan Cervencka, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland

Rainer Alt, University of Leipzig, Germany

Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics IGD

Rem Collier, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics, Ireland

Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Roy Sterrit, University of Ulster, UK

Sebastian Stein, Southampton University, UK

Tony Shan, Bank of America, USA

Uwe Zdun, TU Vienna, Austria

Zhiguo Gong, University of Macau, Macau (t.b.c.)

Lau Hoong Chuin, Singapore Management University, Singapore (t.b.c.)