Call for Agents

The 1st International Workshop on

        Multi-agent Systems and Social Networks (MASSN2012)

co–located with the 2012 International Conference on 

        Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012) 
 26-29 August 2012, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, TURKEY

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the The 1st International
Workshop on Multi-agent Systems and Social Networks (MASSN2012)  that is held as a part of the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012).

Social networks and multi-agent systems share both the structure and the scope, since they are composed of  individuals  connected with  some kinds  of 
relationship  and  they are  realized  for accomplishing individual and/or common
goals. A multi agent system is a system composed of multiple interacting agents; therefore, it is natural to think about synergies between social network and multi-agent system research and application. In fact, multi-agent system models, techniques and technologies have been used and have important potentialities for the study of social networks and the development of social network models. Moreover, the results coming from the experimentation of the more widespread social network systems could be used for the improvement of multi-agent system models, techniques and technologies.

This workshop aims at promoting the interchange among the two communities to allow a transfer of methodologies and to clarify the meaning of the respective terminologies which share many concepts but only at an informal level. 

The workshop aims not only at presentation of papers but also to promote the discussion about the following research topics:

    i) to show the relationships of multi-agent systems with social network models and techniques; and

   ii) to discuss about the use of multi-agent systems in development of social network theories and systems.

Topic of Interest

The scope of the The 1st International Workshop on Multi-agent systems and Social Networks (MASSN2012) includes, but is not limited to the following topics:

 · Multi-agent social network modeling and analysis
 · Multi-agent recommendation networks
 · Multi-agent community discovery
 · Multi-agent data mining and network analysis
 · Multi-agent evolution of patterns in the Web
 · Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
 · Organizational structure evaluation
 · Collaborative environments, incl. wikis
 · Applications of multi-agent social network analysis

Special Issue

The extended versions of selected papers presented during the MASSN 2012 workshop will be published in the special issue of the prestigious Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) journal.

Paper Submission

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics are solicited. New full paper submission deadline is May 7, 2012. These papers will follow an academic review process. Full paper manuscripts
must be in English with a maximum length of 8 pages (using the IEEE two-column
template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es),tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted to the https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=massn2012. If Web submission is not possible, manuscripts
should be sent as an attachment via email to kaya@firat.edu.tr by May 7, 2012. The attachment must be in PDF or Word .doc format.

It is important to note that IEEE CPS will publish the proceedings of ASONAM 2012 and hence all the rules and regulations of IEEE CPS will be applied as explained in the following link:

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/policies

Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance,
relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their
papers represent substantially new previously unpublished work. Paper
submission implies that the intent is for one of the authors to present the
paper if accepted and that at least one of the authors register for a full
conference fee.

Key Dates

· May 7, 2012 : Full paper submission deadline
· June 1, 2012 : Notification of acceptance
· June 15, 2012 : Camera-ready papers due
· June 15, 2012 : Presenting author registration due
· August 26, 2012 : Workshop 

General Chair

· Brahim Chaib-draa, Computer Science and Software Engineering Department, Laval University, Canada
Email: chaib@ift.ulaval.ca

Workshop Co-Chairs

· Mehmet Kaya, Department of Computer Engineering, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey
Email: kaya@firat.edu.tr
· Mohsen Afsharchi, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
Email: afsharchim@znu.ac.ir

Program Committee (To be extended)

· Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
· Kae Won Choi, SeoulTech, Korea
· Sertan Girgin, Google France, France
· Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
· Keivan Kianmehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada
· Tansel Ozyer, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
· Faruk Polat, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
· Mehmet Tan, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey 

             ** WORKSHOP ON EMOTIONAL AND EMPATHIC AGENTS **

                                          at AAMAS 2012

                                 June 4-8, 2012, Valencia, Spain

                          http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas12-wseea

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                                      2ND CALL FOR PAPERS

                 [apologies for cross-postings, please distribute]

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Workshop Organizers

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João Dias (INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, PT)

Janneke van der Zwaan (Delft University of Technology, NL)

Jason Tsai (University of Southern California, USA)

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Senior Steering Committee

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Ana Paiva (PT)

Catholijn Jonker (NL)

Stacy Marsella (USA)

Virginia Dignum (NL)

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Goals

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The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different disciplines to discuss the creation of what we call "empathic agents". Empathy has been associated with the processes that make a person to have "feelings that are more congruent with another's situation than with his own situation". Humans, when interacting with virtual agents or robots can be led to feel empathy, and experience a diverse set of emotional reactions. On the other hand, agents and robots can in a certain, perhaps limited way, also show certain emotions in reaction to human emotions, thus seemingly expressing empathy towards other agents and towards humans.  Further, agents interacting in social simulation scenarios may react to the other agents in a way that is more congruent with the other's. Thus, by seeking inspiration in empathic relations established between humans and between humans and animals, in this workshop we expect to explore these dimensions of empathic agents.

This workshop is multidisciplinary in nature. We expect to involve researchers who are not only interesting in studying intelligent virtual agents, social simulation and social robotics, but also those interested in empathy, cognition, ethology, emotions, human interactions, computer graphics, human-robots interaction and human/computer interaction.

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Topics of Interest

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Models of empathy

- Empathy for rational agents

- Architectures for empathic agents and robots

- Emotional contagion

- Emotional interactions and regulation with agents

- Emotion modeling for empathic agents and robots

- User modeling for empathic agents and robots

- Social robots and social agents and empathy

- Inter-agent communication and empathy

- Expression of virtual agents for empathic interactions

- Empathy and facial expressions in virtual agents

- Empathic synthetic speech for virtual agents

- Applications to health and social education

- Interactive storytelling and empathy

- Entertainment and education applications

- Emotional and empathic agents in video games

- Empathy and long term interactions with virtual agents and robots

- Evaluating empathy in agents and robots

- Evaluating human empathic reactions to artificial agents and robots

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Important Dates

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Paper submission: February 28, 2012

Acceptance notification: March 27, 2012

Camera ready: April 10, 2012

Uploading of workshop papers to website: May 1, 2012

Workshop: June 4-5, 2012 (provisory date)

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Submissions

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Researchers are invited to submit papers for the workshop focusing the topics of interest of the workshop stating clearly how they can contribute to the themes proposed. Papers should be no longer than 8 pages and must use the AAMAS format (http://aamas2012.webs.upv.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=19). All papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a single-blind review process. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop.

Papers should be submitted through Easychair in pdf format: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=eeaaamas2012

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Program Committee

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Please check the program committee members at http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas12-wseea/index.php/committees

ANTS 2012
Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence

September 12-14, 2012. Brussels, Belgium

Call for papers prepared on November 17, 2011
More details and up-to-date information at
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012

Scope of the Conference
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Swarm intelligence is a relatively new discipline that deals with the
study of self-organizing processes both in nature and in artificial
systems. Researchers in ethology and animal behavior have proposed
many models to explain interesting aspects of social insect behavior
such as self-organization and shape-formation. Recently, algorithms
and methods inspired by these models have been proposed to solve
difficult problems in many domains.

An example of a particularly successful research direction in swarm
intelligence is ant colony optimization, the main focus of which is on
discrete optimization problems. Ant colony optimization has been
applied successfully to a large number of difficult discrete
optimization problems including the traveling salesman problem, the
quadratic assignment problem, scheduling, vehicle routing, etc., as
well as to routing in telecommunication networks. Another interesting
approach is that of particle swarm optimization, that focuses on
continuous optimization problems. Here too, a number of successful
applications can be found in the recent literature. Swarm robotics is
another relevant field. Here, the focus is on applying swarm
intelligence techniques to the control of large groups of cooperating
autonomous robots.

ANTS 2012 will give researchers in swarm intelligence the opportunity
to meet, to present their latest research, and to discuss current
developments and applications.

The three-day conference will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on
September 12-14, 2012.

Relevant Research Areas
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ANTS 2012 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of swarm
intelligence. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:

Behavioral models of social insects or other animal societies that
can stimulate new algorithmic approaches.

Empirical and theoretical research in swarm intelligence.

Application of swarm intelligence methods, such as ant colony
optimization or particle swarm optimization, to real-world problems.

Theoretical and experimental research in swarm robotics systems.

Publication Details
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Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS
series.

The journal Swarm Intelligence will publish a special issue dedicated
to ANTS 2012 that will contain extended versions of the best research
works presented at the conference. Further details will be
published on the web site.

Best Paper Award
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A best paper award will be presented at the conference.

Invited talks
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- Prof. Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) on "Towards Simulating the Foundations of Society"

- Prof. Nigel R. Franks (University of Bristol, UK) on "Ants, Bees and Brains"

- Prof. Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania, USA) on "Architectures, abstractions, and algorithms for large teams of robots"

Further Information
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Up-to-date information will be published on the web site
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012/. For information about local
arrangements, registration forms, etc., please refer to the
above-mentioned web site or contact the local organizers at the
address below.

Conference Address
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ANTS 2012
IRIDIA CP 194/6 Tel +32-2-6502729
Université Libre de Bruxelles Fax +32-2-6502715
Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012
1050 Bruxelles, Belgium email: ants@iridia.ulb.ac.be

Important Dates
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Submission deadline March 2, 2012
Notification of acceptance May 3, 2012
Camera ready copy May 17, 2012
Conference September 12-14, 2012

ANTS 2012 Organizing Committee
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General Chair:
Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Technical Program Chairs:
Christian Blum, ALBCOM, LSI, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Andries Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Roderich Groß, Sheffield University, UK

Publication Chair:
Anders Lyhne Christensen, Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, Portugal

Organization Chairs:
Mauro Birattari, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Thomas Stützle, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Local Arrangements:
Andreagiovanni Reina, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Arne Brutschy, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

1st International Workshop on Trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems (TruMAS'12)
KES-AMSTA 2012 Special Session, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 25-27 June 2012
http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~ndra/TruMAS12
Proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of LNCS/LNAI.

IMPORTANT DATES

5 February 2012  Submission of papers
22 February 2012 Notification of acceptance
7 March 2012 Camera ready
25-27 June 2012 TruMAS and KES-AMSTA

WORKSHOP AIM AND SCOPE

The rapid development of computer-based technologies has made computers more and more complex and ubiquitous. Many computer-based systems are in charge of critical tasks such as, to mention only a few, the management of financial and medical databases, the monitoring of nuclear plants, the flying of airplanes, etc. Multi-agent systems (MAS) have been proposed as a new paradigm for conceptualizing, designing, and implementing open and distributed software systems. The foundational idea behind a Multi-Agent System is to have a loosely coupled network of software agents (i.e., sophisticated computer programs that act autonomously on behalf of their users) which interact to solve problems that are beyond the individual capacities or knowledge of each single agent. Therefore, it is not surprisingly MAS have received a lot of attention as reference computing paradigm to tackle complexity in modern computer-based systems.

However, the complexity of modern computer-based systems as well as their numerous applications has inherently increased the challenges for ensuring trustworthiness. Trustworthiness encompasses vital characteristics of a system such as safety (the non-occurrence of catastrophic consequences for the environment the system works in), security (the non-occurrence of unauthorized disclosure of information), integrity (the non-occurrence of inadequate information alteration), availability (the readiness for correct service of the system), reliability (the property of the system to continuously provide service) or more generically dependability. The overall trustworthiness of a system is connected to all the aforementioned properties and should be regarded holistically. Functional correctness, security, safety, reliability are facets that have to be ensured for the system's components as well as for the system as a whole.

The 1st International Workshop on Trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems (TruMAS 2012) aims at bringing together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in all the different aspects of trust, dependability and security in Multi-Agent Systems. The workshop is expected to stimulate discussions about the future development of appropriate models, methods, notations, languages and tools for trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems. The overall goal is to explore the different facets of trustworthiness in Multi-Agent Systems, how every single aspect can be fostered, and how they relate.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
- Trust and reputation models, metrics and assessment in Multi-Agent Systems
- Dependability facets in Multi-Agent Systems
- Fault-tolerance and robustness in Multi-Agent Systems
- Architectures for trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems
- Robust and secure communication in Multi-Agent Systems
- Robust and secure negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems
- Software engineering methodologies for trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems
- Security and access control in open Multi-Agent Systems
- Self-configuration and adaptation
- Formal methods and frameworks to model, analyze, prove, or measure aspects of trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems
- Industrial experiences in the adoption of trust-based Multi-Agent Systems approaches
- Rigorous software development to ensure trustworthiness in Multi-Agent Systems

Since the overall goal of trustworthy Multi-Agent Systems includes the investigation of several cross- disciplinary issues such as a deep understanding of trust vs. trustworthiness, trust-based approaches, dependability, etc..., a synergy between different scientific communities and research disciplines is needed. For this reason, although the workshop seems naturally focused on multi-agent issues, contributions from different disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, communication sciences, as well as from computer science specific sub-disciplines such as software engineering and dependability are welcomed and encouraged.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submitted full papers must not exceed 10 pages in length, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. Papers can be submitted using the PROSE Online Paper Submission system available on the KES-AMSTA'12 Web site. Please remember to select the TruMAS invited session entry in the "Session Name" drop-down box when submitting your paper.

Please use the LNCS templates and style files available on the Springer Web site (Information for LNCS Authors).

Submitted papers will be evaluated by the program committee and chosen for presentation based on their scientific contribution and relevance to the topics of the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop and participate presenting the paper.

Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of LNCS/LNAI.

CHAIRS

Nicola Dragoni
DTU Informatics
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
ndra@imm.dtu.dk

Manuel Mazzara
School of Computing Science
Newcastle University, UK
manuel.mazzara@newcastle.ac.uk

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Faycal Abouzaid, CRAC, Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada
Enrico Denti, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy
Nicoletta Fornara, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Katsuhide Fujita, Institute of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Mauro Gaspari, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy
Paolo Giorgini, Information Engineering and Computer Science Department (DISI), University of Trento, Italy
Nathan Griffiths, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK
Koji Hasebe, Academic Computing & Communications Center, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hiromitsu Hattori, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
Takayuki Ito, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Waqar Jaffry, Department of Artificial Intelligence, VU University, The Netherlands
Andrew J I Jones, Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK
Steve Marsh, Communications Research Centre, Canada
Hernan Melgratti, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paul Scerri, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Eugen Staab, imc AG, Germany
Daniel Villatoro, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain
Mirko Viroli, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy

The Seventh Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems

29-30 August 2012 ## Montpellier, France

http://www.lirmm.fr/ecai2012

Deadline for submission of full papers: 6 March 2012

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The PAIS 2012 Program Committee invites papers describing innovative
applications of AI techniques to real-world systems and problems for
the Technical Program of the 7th International Conference on the
Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems - a subconference of
the 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2012).

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a central topic in contemporary
computing science.  The fruits of almost sixty years of AI research
have benefited application domains as disparate as industrial systems
control and medicine.  The milestone events in AI research are
increasingly regarded as milestones in scientific and technological
development: from the first chess playing program to defeat a reigning
world champion under standard chess tournament rules, via the first
robot to autonomously traverse 150 miles of rough terrain, to the
first computer program that beat humans in a quiz. Techniques,
concepts, and results developed under the banner of AI research have
proved to be of fundamental importance in areas such as medicine,
biology, economics, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and
engineering. And of course, AI remains a topic of perennial
fascination in popular culture.

Papers highlighting all aspects of the application of intelligent
systems technology are most welcome. Our aim is to provide a forum for
academic and industrial researchers and practitioners to share
experience and insights on the applicability, development and
deployment of intelligent systems. PAIS is the largest showcase in
Europe of real applications using AI technology and the ideal place to
meet with those working to make successful applications.

PAIS-2012/ECAI-2012 will be held in the vibrant and elegant city of
Montpellier, France. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and
gastronomy, Montpellier promises to be a wonderful venue for a
memorable conference.

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Papers are welcome on all novel and significant applications of
intelligent systems -- the following list of application areas is
indicative only:

* AI&  Life Sciences and Medicine
* AI&  Autonomous Vehicles
* AI&  Energy
* AI&  Ecology
* AI&  Education
* AI&  Mobile Computing and the Internet
* AI&  Sensor Networks
* AI&  Smart Surroundings
* AI&  Aerospace

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Paper submission deadline: 
 Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Notification of acceptance/rejection: 
 Monday, 21 May 2012

Camera-ready papers due:
         Sunday, 3 June 2012

Conference:
 29-30 August 2012

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Both long and short papers can be submitted.  Long papers must not
exceed *SIX* (6) pages in camera-ready format. Over-length submissions
will be rejected without review. Papers should be submitted using the
ECAI formatting style, to be available soon on the conference website
(this will be very close to previous ECAI styles). Each accepted paper
will be allocated six pages in the proceedings. Submission of short
papers, not exceeding *TWO* (2) pages in ECAI page format, is also
encouraged. Short papers are meant for highly promising but still
preliminary work. Short papers will be presented as a poster. Rejected
long papers will not be considered for poster presentation.

All submissions will be subject to peer review by the PAIS-2012
Programme Committee, and evaluated on the basis of: social relevance,
scientific and technological impact, originality, technical quality,
and quality of presentation.

Reviewing for PAIS-2012 will be double blind: reviewers will not be
presented with the identity of paper authors. To allow for double
blind review, author names in a submitted paper or poster should be
replaced by the unique tracking number assigned by the conference
website at the submission of an electronic abstract.  Authors should
avoid writing anything that makes their identity obvious in the text.
Submissions should be original, and in particular should not
previously have been formally published. (As a rule of thumb, any
publication venue with an ISBN or ISSN number counts as a formal
publication.) Submissions should not be submitted elsewhere during the
PAIS-2012 review phase.

The primary authors of submitted papers will be offered the
opportunity to respond to the reviewers before the final discussion
and decision phase.

The proceedings of the PAIS conference, together with those of the
main conference, and STAIRS, will be published online (as an open
access book) and USB sticks with the proceedings will be given to the
participants. The authors will be responsible for producing
camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI-2012 formatting
guidelines for inclusion in the proceedings.  At least one author of
each accepted paper or poster is required to attend the conference to
present the contribution. Based on the recommendations made by the
reviewers and a separate award committee, one of the accepted long
papers will receive the *BEST PAIS PAPER AWARD*. In addition, there
will be a *BEST STUDENT PAIS PAPER AWARD* (first author should be a
student to qualify).

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PAIS Conference Co-Chairs:

         Paolo Frasconi (Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
 mailto:p-f@dsi.unifi.it
 Peter Lucas (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
 mailto:peterl@cs.ru.nl

Local Organisation Chair:

 HAVE TO FIND ONE!

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Juan-Manuel Ahuactzin, France
Peter Antal, Hungary
Roberto Bayardo, USA
Samy Bengio, USA
Diego Calvanese, Italy
Robert Castelo, Spain
Marc Cavazza, UK
Fabrizio Costa, Germany
Jesse Davis, Belgium
Yves Deville, Belgium
Kurt Driessens, Netherlands
Norman Fenton, UK
Pierre Flener, Sweden
Maria Fox, UK
Thore Grapel, USA
Johan de Kleer, USA
Yolanda Gil, USA
Peter Haddawy, Macau
Jesse Hoey, Canada
Arjen Hommersom, Netherlands
Vanja Josifovski, USA
Hidde de Jong, France
Ross King, UK
Pedro Larranaga, Spain
Tze-Yun Leong, Singapore
Michael Madden, Ireland
Chris Manning, USA
Stephen Muggleton, UK
Tartar Mugur, Germany
Daniele Nardi, Italy
David Page, USA
Andrea Passerini, Italy
Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, Portugal
Alun Preece, UK
Gregory Provan, Ireland
Dan Roth, USA
Carles Sierra, Spain
Barry Smith, Ireland
Peter Struss, Germany
Enrique Sucar, Mexico
Louise Trave-Massuyes, France
Paolo Traverso, Italy
Allan Tucker, UK
Peter Van Roy, Belgium
Marina Velikova, Netherlands
Jiri Vomlel, Czech Republic

4th International Workshop on WEB INTELLIGENCE & COMMUNITIES (WI&C'12)
http://wic.litislab.fr

to be held at the 2012 World Wide Web International Conferences (WWW'12)
Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012

*Important Dates:*

Paper submission deadline: January 27th, 2012
Acceptance notification : February 27th, 2012
Camera ready paper : March 23rd, 2012
Workshop : April 16th, 2012

*INVITED SPEAKER*

We are honored to have a invited talk from Ashwin Ram (PARC & Georgia Tech).
Title: Health & Wellness 2.0 with social networks for healthcare

*SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP*

Web Intelligence consists of a multidisciplinary area dealing with exploiting data and services over the Web, to create new data and services using both Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. Communities appear as a first-class object in the areas of web intelligence and agent technologies, as well as a crucial crossroads of several sub-domains (i.e. user modelling, protocols, data management, data mining, content modelling, etc.). These sub-domains impact the nature of the communities 
and the applications which are related to them. These applications are numerous, and the success of well-known Social Network Sites for entertainment should not be allowed to over-shadow the other application domains, for instance in education, health, design, knowledge management, and so forth. 

The workshop will provide presentation and discussion opportunities for researchers working on web intelligence applied to collaborative networks, such as virtual communities. The possibilities and consequences of the web usage for collaborative networks are tremendous and new tools are required to satisfy users and service providers.

The workshop Web Intelligence and Communities expects contributions on topics such as:
 Multi-agent models and tools for Virtual Communities (VC)
 Services and Grid Services for VC, Service oriented architectures
 Web information mining, filtering and retrieval within/for VC
 Web-based applications and platforms for VC
 Intelligent web interaction, querying, diffusion
 Semantics and ontology engineering for VC
 Self-* models and techniques for VC
 Social networks modelling, virtual communities, social intelligence
 Context-based approach, profile management, personalization and recommendations for/through VC
 Privacy preserving, security, trust-based computing & reputation systems
 Applications: E-* (market, procurement, technologies, health, government, etc.) and VC
 VC and content and knowledge repositories, behaviour modelling and exchange
 Web intelligence, mobility and VC, Ambient Intelligence, Pervasive computing
 Performances evaluation, experiments, user feed-back
 Surveys on WI and VC
 Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration and fusion
 Human-based behaviour patterns and modelling

*SUBMISSIONS*

The Web Intelligence and Communities workshop welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers. Discussion papers and demonstration papers (for presentation during the workshop) are also welcome.

Submitted papers should be 10 pages maximum in length (4 pages for the discussion and demonstration papers), including figures and references. The paper must be formatted in pdf according to style guidelines of ACM SIG Proceedings Template available here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

All submissions should be done online on the workshop submission web site:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wic2012

The WI&C workshop are traditionnaly followed by post-proceedings
published in a renowned international journal (for the 2 last ones, it
was the International Journal on Web Intelligence & Agent
Systems). Discussions are in progress to decide which journal will
publish a special issue with the post-proceedings of WI&C 2012.

* WORKSHOP CHAIRS *

 • Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
 • Pierre Maret, Hubert Curien Laboratory, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France
 • Laurent Vercouter, LITIS Laboratory, INSA de Rouen, France

* PROGRAM COMMITTEE *

Altmann Jorn, Seoul National University, South Korea
Amblard Frédéric, University of Toulouse I, France
Badica Costin, University of Craiova, Romania
Calmet Jacques, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Camacho Fernández David, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Corcho Oscar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Currie Ken, CAPDM Ltd., Edinburgh, UK
De Coi Juri Luca, University of Saint Etienne, France
Delaforge Nicolas, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Dey Anind, Carnegie Mellon Institute, USA
El Morr Christo, York University, Canada
Favre Cécile, ERIC, University of Lyon 2, France
Gilani Wasif, SAP Research, United Kingdom
Halpin Harry, W3C, Scotland
Heckmann Dominikus, Saarland University, Germany
Kawash Jalal, University of Calgary, Canada
Kristoffersen Steinar, Ostfold University College, Norway
Letia Ioan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Lingras Pawan, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
Lopez Guillaume, University of Tokyo, Japan
Molli Pascal, University of Nantes, France
Occello Michel, University Pierre Mendes France, France
Ramanath Maya, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Ribière Myriam, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
Rios Sebastián, University of Chile, Chile
Sasikumar M, C-DAC, India
Soulier Eddie, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Stahl Christoph, DFKI Saarbrucken, Germany
Stan Johann, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
Story Henry, W3C
Tarkkanen Kimmo, University of Turku, Finland
Teigland Robin, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Tellioglu Hilda, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
van Beijnum Bert-Jan, University of Twente, Netherlands
Werthner Hannes, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Ying Ding, Indiana University Bloomington, USA

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*Laurent Vercouter* Professor in Computer Science
LITIS lab, INSA de Rouen, Rouen, France
Ph: (+33) 232 959 986

Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) 2012

A full-day workshop to be held as part of AAMAS-2012 and to accompany the AAMAS Special Track on Robotics

June 2012, Valencia, Spain

Website: http://mmi.tudelft.nl/arms2012/

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Important Dates

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  Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2012

  Notification of acceptance: March 27, 2012

  Submission of camera-ready version: April 10, 2012

Overview

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Robots are agents, too.  Indeed, agent researchers are sometimes inspired by robots, sometimes use robots in motivating examples, and sometimes make contributions to robotics. Both practical and analytical techniques in agent research influence, and are influenced by, research into autonomous robots and multi-robot systems. Areas of particular recent cross-fertilization include (but are not limited

to):

- motion planning and path planning for single and multiple mobile robots

- market-based for coalition formation and task allocation

- machine learning in robotics

- multi-robot teams and swarms

- human-agent-robot teamwork

- analysis of large-scale multi-robot systems and swarms

- decision-theoretic single- and multi-robot planning

- imitation and learning by demonstration/example

- formal methods and control architectures

- Canonical robotics problems, such as robotic soccer, coverage,

   foraging, or patrolling

Despite the rich cross-fertilization between AAMAS and robotics research areas, roboticists and agents researchers have only a few opportunities to meet and interact. The recently established robotics track at AAMAS is one such opportunity. The goal of the proposed workshop is to extend and widen this opportunity, by offering a forum where researchers in this area of research can interact and present promising innovative research directions, and new results. The workshop is coordinated and associated with the AAMAS robotics track.

Submissions and Publication

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The submission website is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arms2012.

Contributions are sought in all areas of robotics, in particular as related to autonomous agents research, but not necessarily so.

Theoretical papers are welcome, as long as they clearly address challenges in robotics. Empirical studies should ideally present experiments with real robots, though physical simulation studies are also acceptable.  Papers that focus on mechanical aspects and low-level control should be make an effort to relate to the agents community.

Submissions should follow Springer's LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should not exceed 16 pages in length.

Organizing Committee TBA

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The contact organizers are Gal Kaminka (galk@cs.biu.ac.il) and Koen Hindriks (k.v.hindriks@tudelft.nl).

Tenth International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS'12)

ProMAS'12 is a satellite workshop at AAMAS 2012 Valencia, Spain, 4-5 June 2012

Over the last decade, the ProMAS workshop series has provided a venue
for state-of-the-art research in programming languages and tools for
the development of multi-agent systems. With the increasing commercial
application of multi-agent systems, the need for development tools and
platforms capable of supporting "professional" or "industrial
strength" MAS development has only increased. Such languages and tools
must be developed in a way that is principled and and at the same time
practical, and ProMAS aims to address both theoretical and practical
issues related to developing and deploying multi-agent systems.

Now in its 10th edition, ProMAS has proved to be an invaluable venue
for bringing together leading researchers from both academia and
industry to discuss key issues in the design of programming languages
and tools for multi-agent systems. In particular, the workshop
promotes the discussion and exchange of techniques, concepts,
requirements and principles central to multi-agent programming
technology. These include the theory and application of agent
programming languages, how to effectively implement a multi-agent
system specification or design, the verification and analysis of agent
systems, as well as the implementation of social structures in
agent-based systems (e.g., organisations, coordination, and
communication in multi-agent systems).

We encourage the submission of papers describing proposals for
programming languages and tools that provide specific programming
constructs to facilitate the implementation of multi-agent system
concepts (e.g., mental attitudes, distribution, and social
interaction). We also welcome submissions describing significant
multi-agent applications, as well as agent programming tools that
allow the integration of agents with legacy systems. We are
particularly interested in approaches or applications that show
clearly the added-value of multi-agent programming, and explain why
and how this technology should be adopted by designers and programmers
both in academia and industry.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Programming languages, models and abstractions for MAS
- Extensions of traditional languages for multi-agent programming
- Programming mobile agents
- Semantics for multi-agent programming languages
- Computational complexity of MAS
- Algorithms, techniques, or protocols relevant to multi-agent
programming (e.g., coordination, cooperation, negotiation)
- Agent communication issues in multi-agent programming
- Programming social, organizational, and normative aspects of MAS
- Interoperability and standards for MAS
- Safety and security for mobile MAS deployment
- Fault tolerance and load balancing for mobile MAS
- Generic tools and infrastructures for multi-agent programming
- High-level executable multi-agent specification languages
- Formal methods and tools for specification and verification of MAS
- Agent/environment/interaction/organization development tools and platforms
- Benchmarks and testbeds for comparing multi-agent programming
languages and tools
- Applications of multi-agent programming languages including: legacy
systems, pervasive applications, multi-robot systems, autonomous
software (e.g., UAVs), (Semantic) Web and Grid-based applications, and
deployed (industrial-strength) multi-agent systems
- Integration of multi-agent and mainstream technologies

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline:                    28  February 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection:         27  March    2012
Camera-ready copies due:                      10  April    2012
Workshop Date:                                4-5 June     2012

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors should submit their papers via the easychair conference
management system:

Papers should be formatted using Springer LNCS style

and should be less than 16 pages in length.

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will be appear in informal proceedings to distributed
among participants during the workshop. As was the case with previous
editions of the ProMAS workshop, we are planning to publish extended
versions of selected and invited papers as a volume of the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

- Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Brian Logan (University of Nottingham, UK)
- Jomi Hubner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

STEERING COMMITTEE

- Rafael H. Bordini (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Juergen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
- Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (University of Paris VI, France)

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* 7th Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation @AAMAS 2012     *
* 4 or 5 June 2012 - Valencia, Spain                                   *
* Website: http://www.ia.urjc.es/att2012                               *
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Building effective and user-friendly transportation systems is one of the
big challenges for engineers in the 21st century. The rapid change of
location, enabled by plane, high-speed rail, sea and road travel, has
constantly become easier and more natural.
These days we travel without any of the difficulties that accompanied
taking a trip less than a century ago. All we have to do is to organize
and to pick up the transport mode that comes closest to our objectives. In
much the same way, many new opportunities for the delivery of goods are
being explored and commercially exploited.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners
together in order to set up visions on how agent technology can be and is
used for today's isolated IT-tools so as to model, simulate, and manage
large-scale complex transportation systems. Therefore, we are interested
in research papers, case studies and practitioners' reports on the
implementation and use of Autonomous Agents in all areas related to
transportation, traffic and logistics. Besides running real-world
applications, we are also interested in papers concerning demonstrators or
testbed that are still under development. Conceptual papers and those
reporting on particular components of transportation systems are also
welcome.

This is the seventh of a well established series of workshops since  2000.
Most of them have published post-proceedings in special issues of journals
such as Transportation Research C.

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Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

- applications of multiagent technology in traffic, transportation, and
transport logistics
- coordination in multiagent transportation systems
- agent-based traffic control
- distributed decision making in traffic, transportation and transport
logistics
- multi-agent systems for intelligent vehicles
- mobile devices and agents in transportation systems
- intelligent monitoring of transportation systems using agents
- data collection, filtering and distribution of traffic information
- autonomous vehicles and collaborative driving
- cognitive approaches to modeling traffic participants
- machine learning approaches to transportation systems
- agent-based approaches to modelling driver behaviour
- agent-based simulation of traffic and transportation systems
- agent-based pedestrian and crowd simulation
- future technologies: opportunities for multiagent systems
- vehicle2vehicle communication and multiagent systems
- requirements and issues involved in electromobility

For ATT2012 we specially encourage submissions on real-world applications
using a minimum of assumptions about future equipments and using novel
techniques from the area of Autonomic Traffic Control and Management.

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Submission Details

Contributions should not exceed ten pages in English. For preparation of
papers to be submitted please use the IFAAMAS template and follow the
formatting instructions for authors available at the AAMAS-2012 website.
Contributions should carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation
including e-mail address, and should include an abstract.

Electronic submission via the conference management system is mandatory:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=att2012

Submissions are accepted as documents in PDF only.

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Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: 28 February 2012
Notifications of acceptance/rejection:  27 March 2012
Camera-ready copies due: 10 April 2012
Workshop Date: 4 or 5 June 2012

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Organizing Committee

Matteo Vasirani, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), matteo.vasirani@urjc.es

Eduardo Camponogara, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil),
camponog@das.ufsc.br

Hiromitsu Hattori, Kyoto University (Japan), hatto@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Franziska Klügl, Örebro University (Sweden), franziska.klugl@oru.se

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Special Track on Ambient Intelligence Environments (AmI Environments 2011) 

15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2011 

10th-13th October, 2011 :: Lisbon, Portugal http://epia2011.appia.pt

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Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a paradigm emerging from Artificial
Intelligence (AI), where computers are used as proactive tools assisting
people with their day-to-day activities, making everyone's life more
comfortable.
These environments should be aware of the needs of people, customizing
requirements and forecasting behaviours. 

AmI environments may be highly diverse, such as homes, offices, meeting
rooms, schools, hospitals, control centers, transport facilities, tourist
attractions, stores, sport installations, music devices, etc.

In the track on AmI Environments we will create a multi-disciplinary
discussion forum that will bring together researchers from the different
fields addressed discussing issues in Artificial Intelligence topics
included in the Ambient Intelligence environments. Researchers are welcome
to present both theoretical and practical works as well as the lessons
learned with their application in the varied range of domains. Emphasis will
be placed on the presentation of concrete systems, discussion of
implementation and development challenges and sharing of conclusions
achieved and relevant results. 

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In order to fulfill these objectives, submissions of substantial, original
and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Ambient
Intelligence. 
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Applications
- Ambient Assisted Living
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Artificial Intelligence for AmI
- Intelligent Environments
- Pervasive Computing
- Context Aware Computing
- Agent & Multiagent Systems for AmI
- Mobile Computing
- Sentient Computing
- e-Health
- Context Modelling
- AmI for e-Learning
- On-line Dispute Resolution
- Memory Assistant

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Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted
according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in
PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in
any other format. 

Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being
rejected automatically without a review. At least one author of each
accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the
Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the
Springer LNCS Web site
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.

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In order to submit a paper, authors must register at the EPIA 2011
conference management system (available soon), using the entry of the
AmI_Environments.

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Submission deadline:           10th May, 2011
Notification of acceptance:    10st June, 2011
Camera-ready papers:           1st July, 2011
EPIA 2011 Conference:          10th - 13th October, 2011 

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As usual in the EPIA conference series, a set of the best full accepted
papers will be published in a volume of the LNAI series published by
Springer, edited by EPIA 2011 Conference Chairs. 

All other accepted papers presented at the conference appear in a published
book.  

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Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal (pjon@di.uminho.pt) 

Ana Almeida, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
(ana@dei.isep.ipp.pt) 

Sara Rodriguez, University of Salamanca, Spain (srg@usal.es)

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http://epia2011.appia.pt
http://isrt.di.uminho.pt/ae2011/

email: amie2011@appia.pt

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Special Track on Affective Computing (AC’2011)

15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2011

10th-13th October, 2011 :: Lisbon, Portugal

http://epia2011.appia.pt

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The workshop on Affective Computing (AC) will focus on the role of affect, social behaviour, and related issues in the development of computer systems. Relevant topics include the consideration of factors like emotions, mood, personality traits, and attitudes in human-computer, human-robot, and human-environment interaction, especially insofar as they provide better or more "natural" support for humans. Also relevant is the role of such factors in facilitating access to the knowledge essential for making better decisions in response to interactions between individuals and the environments (e.g. facilitating social interaction among humans or among humans and artificial characters).

Affective Computing is a multidisciplinary field that draws upon such areas as sociology, psychology, human-machine interaction, virtual environments, and, obviously, Artificial Intelligence. It is also a field with a wide range of applications, including virtual reality, decision support, computer games, and ambient intelligence, social robotics, and ECAs (Embodied Conversational Agents).

The purpose of this workshop on Affective Computing is to bring together researchers to discuss theories, architectures and applications which are based on a combination of cognitive and affective considerations and that can be applied to groups of individually different persons and their interactions.

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In order to fulfill these objectives, submissions of substantial, original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Affective Computing.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Computational models of emotions

Individual Emotion recognition

Social Web

Personality in Agents Architectures

Group Emotion

Emotion and learning

Artificial characters

Affect and emotion recognition

Emotion and memory

Emotion content classification and affect content classification, used to evaluate or analyse human-X interaction;

Using reputation and trust models in social interactions

Using negotiation and persuasion in social interactions

Infrastructure and policy for affective computing

Understanding and Modelling groups and other social systems

Social aspects of globally distributed computing and new cooperative work technologies

New forms of education, entertainment and social relations based on cooperation technologies

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Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in any other format.

Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the Springer LNCS Web site http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission deadline:           10th May, 2011

Notification of acceptance:    10st June, 2011

Camera-ready papers:           1st July, 2011

EPIA 2011 Conference:          10th - 13th October, 2011

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PUBLICATION

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Goreti Marreiros, goreti@dei.isep.ipp.pt(ISEP, Portugal)

Andrew Ortony, ortony@northwestern.edu(Northwestern University, USA)

Ana Paiva, Ana.Paiva@inesc-id.pt, (INESC-ID and IST, Portugal)

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CONTACTS  goreti@dei.isep.ipp.pt

2nd International Conference on
                           Reputation
                          (ICORE 2011)
           Montpellier, France, September 19th, 2011

                     http://2011.icore.name

                         co-located with
                           ESSA 2011

IMPORTANT DATES

** Abstract submission: June, 1st, 2011 **
Full papers required on 15 June.
Notification of acceptance: 10 July.
The conference will take place on 19 September.

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The second International Conference on *Reputation*: 'Society,
Economy, Trust' follows the success of the first edition
(http://2009.icore.name) as a point of convergence in the
interdisciplinary study of reputation.

The study of reputation and gossip is paramount in many fields of the
social sciences, for example organization science, policy-making,
(e-)governance, cultural evolution, social dilemmas, socio-dynamics,
and sociobiology. Interest in reputation is increasing in philosophy,
psychology, social psychology, sociology, and cognitive science;
formal models appear in game theoretical, mathematical, and physics
journals; computational reputation systems are among the most studied
subjects in multi-agent technology and social simulations.

Our objective is that of providing a common ground for all the
interested disciplines to share techniques and ideas on a stage where
the selection process approach is founded not on one specific method,
and even less on established practices and rituals, but rather on an
open-minded scientific approach to the the object of study.

This year, the  conference focuses on the foremost of Reputation's
relative, trust, and their effects together on the economy, and on the
society as a whole. What is the link between reputation and trust on
one side, and social well-being, equality and happiness on the other?
We invite contributions on reputation and trust, and how these come to
affect the society of agents that use them, ranging from web
reputation platforms to informal models of gossip. Trust and
reputation as means to build social capital and to overcome inequality
and misunderstandings are deeply needed from society just now.

TOPICS

We invite papers from all scientific communities working on reputation.

Topics for ICORE 2011 include but are not limited to:

   * Theory of reputation
   * Simulation of reputation
   * Computational models of reputation
   * Agent reputation models
   * Ontologies of reputation
   * Logical formalization of reputation
   * Experimental evidence of reputation diffusion
   * Reputation-based e-government, e-learning, e-business
   * Reputation in p2p systems
   * Reputation in grid environments
   * Reputation for partner selection
   * Incentives in reputation mechanisms
   * Image and reputation
   * Reputation management and optimisation
   * Reputation and social networks
   * Reputation and norms
   * Reputation and altruism, reciprocity, and cooperation
   * Reputation and trust
   * Reputation for sabotage tolerance in large-scale applications
   * Reputation and exchange
   * Reputation and institutions
   * Reputation and social capital
   * Corporate and firm reputation
   * Reputation and peer review
   * Reputation, trust, and societal cohesion
   * Reputation, trust and equality

SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS

Please check the conference website (http://2011.icore.name) where
detailed information on how to submit papers will appear.

Submission is in two steps: extended abstract first, followed by an
open discussion phase, then full paper. See important dates above.

REVIEW CRITERIA

Papers should present novel ideas related to reputation, clearly
motivated by problems from current practice or applied research.
We expect claims to be substantiated by theoretical or formal
analysis, experimental evaluations, comparative studies, and so on.
Authors are also encouraged to submit application papers. Application
papers are expected to address an indication of the real world
relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of
the deployment domain, and some form of evaluation of performance,
usability, or superiority to alternative approaches.

Proceedings: LNCS/LNAI volume (available at the workshop).

JLC Special Issue: Selected extended papers will be published in a
Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation.

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The purpose of the CLIMA Workshop Series is to provide a forum for
discussing techniques, based on computational logic, for representing,
programming and reasoning about agents and multi-agent systems in a
formal way.

Following the previous ten, very successful, editions, the 12th CLIMA
will be affiliated with IJCAI'11 and will take place in Barcelona, Spain,
on the 17th and 18th of July 2011.

In addition to CLIMA's regular topics and sessions, this edition will
feature two special sessions:

* Norms and Normative Multi-Agent Systems
* Logics for Games and Social Choice

We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original
papers, which have not been accepted for publication nor are currently
under review for another journal or conference.

LNCS Proceedings: CLIMA's Proceedings will be published by
Springer as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and
will be available in time for the workshop.

JLC Special Issue: After the workshop, authors of selected papers will
be invited to extend and re-submit their work to be considered for inclusion
in a CLIMA Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation.

Detailed information regarding CLIMA, its topics of interest, the two Special
Sessions, formatting and submission instructions is available at
http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/climaXII/

Important dates:
* Submission: April 4th (Abstracts) / April 8th (Papers)
* Notification: May 4th
* Camera Ready: May 16th

CLIMA XII Chairs:
* João Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
* Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy

Special Session Organisers:

Norms and Normative Multi-Agent Systems:
* Guido Boella, University of Turin, Italy
* Leon van der Torre, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Logics for Games and Social Choice:
* Thomas Ågotnes, University of Bergen, Norway

Please send all enquiries about CLIMA XII to clima2011@easychair.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

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- Full Paper Submission:      March 15, 2011

- Acceptance Notification:    May   15, 2011

- Camera-Ready Submission:    June  15, 2011

The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2011) is a leading international conference which provides an international forum for researchers, developers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to address research challenges and to present and discuss research ideas, developments and experiences related to the ambient systems infrastructure, models, and technologies.

   The general aim of ambient systems is to provide an environment wherein computing devices exist anywhere and everywhere. In such systems mobile and embedded computing devices form ad hoc collaboration using different communication networks (e.g., wireless networks, RFID, etc) in order to share and exchange information and provide services. Ambient systems pose new research challenges due to the open and unreliable nature of the environment and the complexity and heterogeneity of the computing devices and the underlying communication networks. These characteristics challenge traditional techniques and demand new ways of approaching the problems related to the ambient systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers to the following research tracks. Details on topics of each track are available at the conference website.

- Autonomic Networks and Communications

- Systems Software Engineering

- Systems Security and Privacy

- Distributed Artificial Intelligence

- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing

- Multimodal Interfaces

- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications

- Smart Environments and Applications

- Social Networks

- General track: Distributed systems, networks and applications

PUBLICATION

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Papers accepted for the conference will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of:

(1) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, by Springer

      http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779

(2) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, by Springer

      http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652

(3) Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal, by Springer

      http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/13278

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

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Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers including all figures and references, and must be formatted according to Elsevier guidelines (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/).

COMMITTEES

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General Chairs

  Nick Cercone, York University, Canada

  Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Program Chairs

  Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada

  Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

  Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan

Advisory Committee

  Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

  Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada

  Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK

  Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy

  Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

  Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

  Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

  Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia

Workshops Chairs

  Sajid Hussain, Fisk University, USA

  Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey

Program vice Chairs

  Jiang Li, Howard University, USA

  Ye Tian, Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China

  Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany

  Agustinus Waluyo, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore

  Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

  Javier GarcÆa-Villalba, Universidad Comp. de Madrid, Spain

  Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

  Lars Braubach, University of Hamburg, Germany

  Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia/CISTER Research Unit, Portugal

  Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia

  Thomas Grill, University of Salzburg, Austria

  Soraya Kouadri MostÄfaoui, The Open University, UK

  Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE

  Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

  Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada

  Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada

  Tansel Ozyer, TOBB Econo & Tech University, Turkey

Local Arrangement Chairs

  Nauman Aslam, Dalhousie University, Canada

  Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada

Publicity Chairs

  Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

  Abdel Ilah Alshbatat, Tafila Technical University, Jordan

International Liaison Chairs

  Imad Saleh, University of Paris VIII, France

  Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan

Awards Chairs

  Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada

  Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Steering Committee Chair

  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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                    ANT-2011 Affiliated Workshops

    http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/#approvedWorkshops

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The ANT-2011 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of ANT-2011 and its related areas.

PUBLICATION

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All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2011 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2011Website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues.

IMPORTANT DATES (workshops)

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03/31/2011 - Submission Deadline

05/15/2011 - Author Notification

05/30/2011 - Author Registration Due

06/20/2011 - Final Manuscript Due

ANT-2011 - WORKSHOPS

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ETACC: Emerging Trends and Applications of Cloud Computing

   http://www.peterindia.net/peterworkshop.html

WNCS: International Workshop on Wireless Networked Control Systems

   http://myweb.dal.ca/naslam/wncs-11/

WIAS: International Workshop on Information Assurance and Security

   https://sites.google.com/site/wias2011/

HCUMA: International Workshop on Health Care Using Mobile Apps

   https://sites.google.com/site/hcuma2011/

IST-AWSN: The 6th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Techniques for Ad hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks

   http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ist-awsn11/

EmSeNs: International Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Sensor Networks

   https://sites.google.com/site/emsens2011/

IUPT: Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things

   http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/iupt-11/

DP: Digital Planet

   http://debii.curtin.edu.au/~naeem/dp/index.html

AASNET: The 5th International Symposium on Applications of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks

   https://sites.google.com/site/aasnet11/

GTDS: Green Technology and Digital Sustainability

   http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/#approvedWorkshops

AAC: Autonomic and Agent Computing: Foundations and Applications

   http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~bentahar/AAC2011/AAC2011.htm

ARTIFACT: AmbienT Intelligence at the services of inFo-mobility and Critical Transportation networks

   http://www.graphitech.it/artifact/

GCRE: International Workshop on Green Computing and Renewable Energy
   https://sites.google.com/site/gcre2011/

============================ END of CFP =====================================================

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