The 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA-2011) Wollongong, Australia November 16th - 18th, 2011 www.prima2011.org Conference Theme: Agents for Sustainability

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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ServAgent-2011: The Second International Workshop on Services and Agents (ServAgents 2011) In conjunction with PRIMA 2011 (http://www.prima2011.org) Wollongong, Australia, November 14 - 18, 2011 http://www.dsl.uow.edu.au/servagents2011/ CALL FOR PAPERS There are strong connections between intelligent agents and services, and there is increasing crossover between works in the two communities. The new area of services (both in the sense of service science and service-oriented computing) offers exciting new application opportunities for both the concepts and methodologies of intelligent agent systems. Techniques developed in the agent research community promise to have a strong impact on this fast growing field. For instance, agent-oriented modeling techniques can influence the development of service modeling techniques. Agent technology may offer a solution to the critical business imperative of service delivery optimization. Agent systems might provide crucial decision support functionality in the business service delivery. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of services and agents, and engage in the discussion and exchange of ideas. It will serve to highlight the impact of research in agents on the area of services and will help in the identification of practical needs and opportunities. The emphasis of this workshop is on the intersection of the rather new, fast growing services science and engineering paradigm with agent technology. We especially encourage papers that deal with the application of agent techniques to challenges in the services area. We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Intelligent Agent Technology and Services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *       Agent-oriented approaches (frameworks, methods, and tools) to business and IT-enabled service modeling, analysis and design *       Simulation and optimization of business services and service systems *       Service compliance management *       Agent technology in business process management *       Philosophical foundations of agency and services *       Service description, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering *       Service composition, orchestration, and choreography *       Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling of service delivery *       Agent-based negotiation of QoS and SLAs *       Service business models and case studies *       Ontology applications in services science ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Hoa Khanh Dam, University of Wollongong, Australia hoa@uow.edu.au Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia aditya@uow.edu.au PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED) * Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA * Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Australia, Australia * Joseph Davis, University of Sydney, Australia * Biplav Srivastava, IBM India Research Lab * Jane Yung-jen Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan * Nanjangud C. Narendra, IBM India Research Lab, India * Christian Guttmann, Monash University, Australia * Tru Hoang Cao, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam * Ho-fung Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hongkong * Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates * Nabendu Chaki, Calcutta University, India * Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China * Soe-Tsyr Yuan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan * Suman Roy, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies, India * Arijit Laha, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies, India * Nirmit V Desai, IBM India Research Lab, India * Srinivas Narasimhamurthy, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies, India SUBMISSION FORMAT AND PROCEDURE Submissions will be peer reviewed in line with the standards of the main PRIMA 2011 conference. All papers, submitted as PDF files, must conform the LNCS format and will have no more than 15 pages. In-principle agreement obtained from Springer for an LNCS/LNAI post-proceedings. Instructions and templates can be found here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers should be sent through the Easychair conference manager http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=servagents2011 IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline:  August 12, 2011 Notification date:  September 16, 2011 Early registration deadline:  September 27, 2011 Camera-ready papers deadline:  September 30, 2011 Registration deadline:  November 1, 2011 Workshop date:  November 14 - 15, 2011 ABSSS-2011: ************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS Agent Based Simulation for a Sustainable Society (ABSSS2011) Workshop@PRIMA 2011 Wollongong, Australia 14 or 15 November 2011 ict1.tbm.tudelft.nl/absss2011/ ************************************************************************* ------------------- Important dates: ------------------- * Paper submission: 12 August * Acceptance notification: 16 September * Early registration deadline: 27 September * Camera-ready papers due: 30 September * Registration deadline: 1 November * Workshop date: 14 or 15 November * PRIMA conference: 16-18 November ------------------- Workshop Goals: ------------------- Agent based social simulation has been around for quite some time now. It has been successful in a number of areas. Policies for sustainable development require complex decisions about resource management, balance of economic, environmental and societal needs and involve many countries, interest groups and individuals. Especially for sustainable societies we are interested in simulations that can capture the behavioral patterns, changes and interactions in a society. This requires large scale simulations with relatively rich cognitive agents. Current approaches to the study of sustainable environments and communities focus on either individuals as the causal unit, particularly with regard to psychological adjustment, or on macro-economic aspects. Macro-models do not provide the instruments to evaluate a policy at the micro-level of implementation and are not able to handle highly dynamic or volatile situations. On the other hand, micro-models of individuals and groups, as used at the lower levels of abstraction, usually based on agent models for emergent global behavior, such as Agent Based Social Simulation (ABSS), don’t provide means to specify and regulate normative global restrictions. However, the societies being modeled in policy making relate to real people with real needs and personalities, often of a multi-cultural composition. Those circumstances require the agents to be diversified to accommodate these facts. One can see sustainable societies as complex systems, which requires that modeling approaches offer ways of accounting for their "necessary complexity". By "necessary complexity", we mean the ability to maintain, in a model, some characteristics of the target system (such as emergent properties, multi-scale interactions, heterogeneity, etc) that can be essential in evaluating a decision or making predictions. In that respect, agent-based approaches to the modeling of complex systems promise to become one of the most pervasive techniques in the next years. Many issues come up in this context and submissions are invited to discuss these issues, including: * What is the influence of current norms and values of a society on the way it reacts to sustainability issues? * Can we device policies that take this into account and achieve socially optimal situations? * How do we balance rich and complex agents and interactions and large scale simulations? * How can we choose the aspects that should be included in the simulation in order for the simulation to be useful for policy makers? * How to make effective use of participatory, collaborative modeling and simulation * Can we zoom in and out to particular areas in a simulation? E.g. look at a street level simulation and zoom out to a nationwide simulation including that street? I.e. use multiple scales and multiple agent-based simulations? * What kind of agent platforms are best suited for this kind of agent based simulations? * How to represent time and space? We encourage participants to submit a paper (15 pages max), describing their work on one or more of the topics mentioned above. Please use the LNCS format for formatting your paper. ------------------- Submission procedure: ------------------- PRIMA-2011 workshops will published publish in a joint volume in the LNAI series, Springer. Papers should thus be in Springer LNCS format and no more than 15 pages in length. They should be submitted as a PDF file and must include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address and email address. ABSSS2011 submissions will be reviewed by 3 PC members. Submissions must be done through the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=absss2011 The deadline for receipt of submissions is August, 12, 2011. Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. ------------------- Organizing Committee ------------------- * Frank Dignum, Utrecht University * Virginia Dignum, Delft University of Technology * Liz Sonenberg, The University of Melbourne * Yoshi Kashima, The University of Melbourne * Sarah Hickmott, RMIT ------------------- Program Committee: ------------------- * Carole Adam (University of Grenoble, FR) * Frank Dignum (Utrecht University, NL) * Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, NL) * Alexis Drogoul (IRD, UPMC, MSI-IFI, VIE) * Raphael Duboz (AIT, THA) * Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) * Claude Garcia (Institut Français de Pondichéry & CIRAD, IND) * Benoit Gaudou (University of Toulouse, FR) * Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK) * Hiromitsu Hattori (Kyoto University, JP) * Ho Tuong Vinh (UMI UMMISCO, IRD, IFI,VIE) * Gertjan Hofstede (Wageningen University, NL) * Yoshi Kashima (University of Melbourne, AUS) * Nicolas Marilleau (UMI UMMISCO, IRD, FR) * Peter McBurney (Kings College, London) * Yuu Nakajima (Kyoto University, JP) * Craig Pearson (University of Melbourne, AUS) * Jens Pfau (University of Melbourne, AUS) * Dirk van Rooy (Australian National University, AUS) * David Scerri (RMIT, AUS) * Alex Smajgl (CSIRO, AUS) * Liz Sonenberg (University of Melbourne, AUS) * Leon Sterling (Swinburne University, AUS) * Tiberiu Stratulat (Polytech Montpellier, FR) * Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University, KOR) * Patrick Taillandier (University of Toulouse, FR) * The Duy Bui (Vietnam National University, VIE) MASmart-2011: ********************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The International Workshop on Multi-agent Smart computing (MASmart2011) @PRIMA 2011 Wollongong, Australia 14 - 15 November 2011 http://www.itolab.nitech.ac.jp/MASmart2011/ ********************************************************************************** ------------------- Important dates: ------------------- * Paper submission: 12 August * Acceptance notification: 16 September * Early registration deadline: 27 September * Camera-ready papers due: 30 September * Registration deadline: 1 November * Workshop date: 14 or 15 November * PRIMA conference: 16-18 November ------------------- Workshop Goals: ------------------- MASmart2011 is the international workshop on advances in theory, systems, and applications for smart software. Multi-agent Smart computing is a new interdisciplinary field that aims to apply techniques from multi-agent systems and related disciplines (for example, smart grid, green computing, life innovation, smart elderly care systems, etc.) to the balancing of environmental, economic, and societal needs, in order to support sustainable development and a sustainable future. Research in multi-agent smart computing is inherently interdisciplinary: It brings together multi-agent computational fields and a variety of fields with a long tradition in the study of smart city problems, such as environmental sciences, biology, economics, and sociology. Multi-agent systems, in particular, can play a key role in addressing challenges in smart computing. We encourage participants to submit a paper (15 pages max), describing their work on one or more of the topics mentioned above. Please use the LNCS format for formatting your paper. We solicit papers on all aspects of such smart systems and applications in the field of Multi-Agent Systems and Web Intelligence, including but not limited to: - Power-aware Systems and Applications - Distributed Coordination of Resources - Systems, Applications and Services for Accessibility and Personal Autonomy - Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring - Urban Computing for Sustainability - Green Computing - Sustainable computing - Next-generation transportation systems - Next-generation logistics - Smart Grids - Energy supply - Demand control - City design - Smart Home, Smart City, and Smart Planet - Consensus and Negotiation by Civilians - Collective Intelligence for Green Computing - Web based Support Systems etc. ------------------- Submission procedure: ------------------- PRIMA-2011 workshops will be published in a joint volume in the LNAI series, Springer. Papers should thus be in Springer LNCS format and no more than 15 pages in length. They should be submitted as a PDF file and must include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address and email address. MASmart2011 submissions will be reviewed by 3 PC members. Submissions must be done through the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=masmart2011 The deadline for receipt of submissions is August, 12, 2011. Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. ------------------- Organizers ------------------- Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology Tokuro Matsuo, Yamagata University Minjie Zhang, Wolongong University Shohei Kato, Nagoya Institute of Technology Akira Iwata, Nagoya Institute of Technology Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University Ivan Marsa-Maestre, University of Alcala Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona, University of Alcala