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Link: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~bentahar/AC2010/AC2010.htm | |||||||||||||
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Call for Papers: Workshop on Agent Communication ------------------------------------------------ Workshop on Agent Communication (AC 2010) at the International Joint Conference on Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto Key Dates: FEBRUARY 2, 2010 - Submission of contributions to workshops MARCH 2, 2010 - Workshop paper acceptance notification MAY 10-11, 2010 - AAMAS-2010 Workshops URL: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~bentahar/AC2010/AC2010.htm Agent communication research seeks to address challenges in the development of open multiagent systems. Open systems consist of multiple autonomous and heterogeneous agents who communicate in order to exchange or negotiate information, knowledge, and services. As such, advances in agent communication are critical to advances in the software engineering of applications as diverse as business processes, negotiation and argumentation, virtual organizations, e-governance, collaborative design, and so on. We invite quality submissions that develop new insights, high-level abstractions, patterns, languages, formal theories, reasoning, and methodologies for agent communication. We will also appreciate submissions concerning experiences in application development, programming language and tool support, and communication middleware. Proposals for standardization are also welcome. Specifically, the workshop's focus includes the following topics in relation to agent communication. * Languages (ACLs) * Protocols * Dialogs * Argumentation * Virtual organizations, institutions * Commitments, norms, and other social concepts * Speech acts and illocutionary logic * Trust and deception * Correctness properties and verification ** compliance, ** interoperability, ** conformance, and so on. * Relating agent communication to agent design and execution strategies ** game-theoretic, ** BDI, ** learning, and so on * Multiagent system architecture * Programming languages * Middleware * Patterns The workshop will provide a great opportunity to discuss emerging techniques and identify future trends toward agent communication. The workshop will include an invited talk and one or more position statements by accomplished researchers. Selected papers from the workshop proceedings will be published as a Springer LNCS volume. Program committee (confirmed, but partial): Nicoletta Fornara, Universit? della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Marco Colombetti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey Marc-Philippe Huget, University of Savoie, France Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK Koen Hindriks, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Michael Rovatsos, University of Edinburgh, UK Rogier van Eijk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Xavier Parent, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool, UK Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy Michael N. Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Nirmit Desai, IBM Research, India The workshop is guided by a steering committee consisting of: Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Andrew J. I. Jones, King's College London, UK. Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA. Organizers: Amit K. Chopra, University of Trento, Italy. Alexander Artikis, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece. Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada. Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. |
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