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Special Session on
Multi Agent Systems and Collaboration (MASC'06)
The 2006
International Symposium on
Collaborative
Technologies and Systems (CTS’06)
May 14-17, 2005
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/wsmari/cts06/
Extended Submission
Deadline: February 3, 2006
Brief
Description:
Agents and Multi Agent based Systems (MAS) are becoming widely
used due to their ability to handle complex tasks and systems, in autonomous
and intelligent ways. Agents are popular computational technologies
contributing to diverse domains such as computer games, computer mediated
collaboration, education and training, electronic commerce, information
retrieval, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, robotics, service-oriented
computing, social simulation, and user interfaces. Thanks to their growing
communication abilities, agents can collaborate efficiently with each other,
support human interaction, and even collaborate with humans. Nowadays many new
areas of research and applications emerge using collaborative and communicative
agents to perform a variety of complex tasks. There are theories of agent-based
collaboration that model teamwork, coalitions, crowds, and embodied
conversational agents.
This special session on Multi Agent Systems and Collaboration - to
be held as an integrated part of the 2006 International Symposium on
Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'06) - will focus on recent problems
concerning the collaboration of agents (software, physical, or human), and
related communication issues and new needs; what the collaboration of agents
can bring in terms of computing performance, task repartition, architecture
deployment, security enforcement, simulation, high performance computing, etc.
New concepts, theories, models, agent communication languages (ACL), algorithms,
frameworks, implementations and systems are meant to be covered in this
session.
Topics
of Interest include (but are not limited to):
* Collaborative
intelligent agents
* Coordination,
Cooperation, Mediation
* Rational agency and
collaboration
* Frameworks for the
design of collaborative MAS
* Agent communication
protocols, languages and semantics for collaboration
* Collaboration and
communication in massive multi agent systems (MMAS)
* Security in
collaborative multi agent systems / secure collaborative agents
* Using multi agent
systems for security
* Software agents and
collaboration in user centric systems
* Collaboration in
agent based HCI (Human Computer Interaction) systems
* Collaboration
between embodied and/or conversational agents and human agents
* Collaboration
between web agents
* Mobile collaborative
agents / remote collaboration
* Collaboration
between agent based systems and non-agent based systems
* Collaborative social
agents
* Human-agent
interaction and teaming
* Role(s) of formal/applied
ontology in collaboration
* Agent based high
performance computing systems
* Use of MAS in
modeling and simulation
* Agent collaboration
for complex and fine-grained simulation
* Agent collaboration
for artificial/real life/world simulation
* Task distribution
within collaborative multi agent systems
Instructions
for Authors:
Papers
reporting original and unpublished research results on above and any other
related collaborative (multi-)agent topics are solicited. Electronic
(postscript or pdf) submissions are encouraged and should be sent to patrice.clemente@ensi-bourges.fr,
hexmoor@uark.edu and christophe.rosenberger@ensi-bourges.fr
by February 3, 2006. For other electronic formats, please check with the
organizers. For non-electronic submissions, please send four copies of the
manuscript to one of the special session co-organizers.
Papers submitted for
review should include a cover page with authors'names, affiliations, addresses,
fax and phone numbers, email addresses, and the name of the special session. In
case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence
should also be included. Include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more
than 300 words. Submissions should not to exceed 15 double-spaced pages
including figures, tables, and references or not to exceed 7 pages in length in
single-space, two columns IEEE format.
As a
special session, each submitted paper will receive three reviews. Papers will
be accepted based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance,
and clarity of presentation. Initial selection will be based on full papers.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register
and present the paper, if accepted. Final accepted manuscript will follow the
CTS 2006 format that will be available on the conference web site.
All
accepted papers in the Symposium are expected to be presented and will be
published as CTS6 papers in the conference proceedings. It is our intent to
have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be
available at the time of the conference.
Important
Dates:
Special
Session Organizers:
Dr. Patrice Clemente
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale
d'Orleans (LIFO)
ENSI de Bourges
10, Boulevard Lahitolle
18020 Bourges Cedex
Voice: +33248484063
Fax: +33248484040
Email: patrice.clemente@ensi-bourges.fr
Dr. Henry Hexmoor
Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
University of Arkansas
Engineering Hall, Room 328
Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
Voice: 479-575-2420
Fax: 479-575-5339
Email: hexmoor@uark.edu
Dr. Christophe Rosenberger
Laboratoire Vision & Robotique (LVR)
ENSI de Bourges
10, Boulevard Lahitolle
18020 Bourges Cedex
Voice: +33248484066
Fax: +33248484040
Email: christophe.rosenberger@ensi-bourges.fr
Technical
Program Committee:
All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special
session technical program committee members.
Dr. Patrice Clemente (University of Orleans, France)
Dr. Henry Hexmoor (University of Arkansas, USA)
Dr. Vincent Louis (France Tom R&D, France)
Pr. Philippe Mathieu (University of Lille, France)
Pr. Sascha Ossowski. (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) *
Dr. Franck Panaget (France Tom R&D, France)
Dr. Alois Reitbauer (PROFACTOR, Austria)
Dr. Christophe Rosenberger (University of Orleans, France)
Dr. Jean-Christophe Routier (University of Lille, France)
(Partial. To be completed)
* final acceptance pending
If you have questions concerning session paper submission or session content, please contact the Special Session organizer at the address above. For information or questions about the full Symposium's program, tutorials, exhibits, demos, panel and special sessions organization, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/wsmari/cts06/ or contact the symposium co-chairs: Bill McQuay at AFRL/IFSD, WPAFB (William.McQuay@wpafb.af.mil) or Waleed W. Smari at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton (Waleed.Smari@notes.udayton.edu).