CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS

4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2012

Website: http://www.icaart.org/

February 6 - 8, 2012
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal


Important Deadlines:

Position Paper Submission: October 13, 2011
Authors Notification (position papers): November 11, 2011
Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: November 25, 2011


In cooperation with:

APPIA (Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence)
AEPIA (Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence)
AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)



The purpose of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in these areas. Two simultaneous but strongly related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work within the area of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general, including web applications, on one hand, and within the area of non-distributed AI, including the more traditional areas such as Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception and also not so traditional areas such as Reactive AI Systems, Evolutionary Computing and other aspects of Computational Intelligence and many other areas related to intelligent systems, on the other hand.

A substantial amount of research work is ongoing in these knowledge areas, in an attempt to discover appropriate theories and paradigms to use in real-world applications. Much of this important work is therefore theoretical in nature. However there is nothing as practical as a good theory, as Boltzman said many years ago, and some theories have indeed made their way into practice. Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Artificial Intelligence and Distributed AI, including Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; This conference intends to emphasize this connection, therefore, authors are invited to highlight the benefits of Information Technology (IT) in these areas. Ideas on how to solve problems using agents and artificial intelligence, both in R&D and industrial applications, are welcome. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICAART with an ISBN. A book with the best papers of the conferene will be published by Springer-Verlag. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Additional information can be found at http://www.icaart.org/.


CONFERENCE CHAIR
Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal

PROGRAM CHAIR
Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Luís Paulo Reis, University of Porto, Portugal
Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds, U.K.
Wolfgang Wahlster, German Research Center for AI, Germany
Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Helder Coelho, University of Lisbon, Portugal


PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI.

AWARDS
Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session.
Please check the website for further information (http://www.icaart.org/best_paper_awards.asp).


CONFERENCE AREAS

AREA 1: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

* Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
* Ontologies
* Model-based Reasoning
* Uncertainty in AI
* Bayesian Networks
* Ambient Intelligence
* Reactive AI
* Hybrid Intelligent Systems
* Planning and Scheduling
* Case-based Reasoning
* Machine Learning
* Pattern Recognition
* Vision and Perception
* AI and Creativity
* Expert Systems
* Soft Computing
* Fuzzy Systems
* Neural Networks
* Evolutionary Computing
* Intelligent User Interfaces
* Natural Language Processing
* Cognitive Systems
* State Space Search
* Constraint Satisfaction
* Data Mining
* Industrial Applications of AI

AREA 2: AGENTS

* Agent Models and Architectures
* Agent Communication Languages
* Distributed Problem Solving
* Collective Intelligence
* Semantic Web
* Simulation
* Multi-agent Systems
* Privacy, Safety and Security
* Mobile Agents
* Economic Agent Models
* Auctions and Markets
* SOA and Software Agents
* Agent Platforms and Interoperability
* Web Intelligence
* Group Decision Making
* Physical Agents
* Robot and Multi-robot Systems
* Self Organizing Systems
* Cognitive Robotics
* Autonomous Systems
* Task Planning and Execution
* Programming Environments and Languages
* Negotiation and Interaction Protocols
* Conversational Agents
* Cooperation and Coordination
* Cloud Computing


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Daghan Acay, YTEK, Australia
Jose Aguilar, Universidad De Los Andes, Venezuela
H. Levent Akin, Bogazici University, Turkey
Oshadi Alahakoon, Monash University, Australia
Rudolf Albrecht, University of Innsbruck, Austria
David Al-Dabass, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Jan Alexandersson, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence / University of Hildesheim, Germany
Frédéric Amblard, IRIT - Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, France
Leila Amgoud, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Eyal Amir, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
Cesar Analide, University of Minho, Portugal
Michael Anderson, Franklin&Marshall College, United States
Andreas Andreou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Tsz-Chiu Au, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Snorre Aunet, University of Oslo, Norway
Aladdin Ayesh, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Antonio Bahamonde, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Suzanne Barber, The University of Texas, United States
Steve Barker, King's College London University, United Kingdom
Mike Barley, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Senén Barro, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Roman Barták, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Teresa M. A. Basile, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies, United States
Orlando Belo, University of Minho, Portugal
Younès Bennani, University of Paris 13, France
Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
Christoph Benzmueller, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Greet Vanden Berghe, KAHO St.-Lieven, Belgium
Carole Bernon, University of Toulouse III, France
Ateet Bhalla, NRI Institute of Information Science and Technology, BHOPAL, INDIA, India
Reinaldo Bianchi, Centro Universitario da FEI, Brazil
Juan A. Botía Blaya, University of Murcia, Spain
Enrique Bonsón, Universidad de Huelva, Spain
Andre Pinz Borges, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil
Tibor Bosse, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bruno Bouchard, LIARA laboratory, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
Danielle Boulanger, IAE- Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France
Ivan Bratko, Faculty of Computer and Information Sc., University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Paolo Bresciani, European Commission, Belgium
Egon L. van den Broek, Human-Centered Computing Consultancy / University of Twente / Radboud UMC Nijmegen, Netherlands
Giacomo Cabri, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Silvia Calegari, Universita' Degli Studi Di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Rui Camacho, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Valérie Camps, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France
Jose Jesus Castro-schez, Escuela Superior de Informatica, Spain
Patrick De Causmaecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Ke Chen, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Marco Chiarandini, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Anders Lyhne Christensen, Instituto Superior das Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Portugal
Silvano Cincotti, University of Genoa, Italy
Davide Ciucci, Universita' Degli Studi Di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Diane Cook, Washington State University, United States
Dan Corkill, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
Gabriella Cortellessa, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Anna Helena Reali Costa, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Rajarshi Das, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, United States
Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Darryl N. Davis, University of Hull, United Kingdom
Scott A. DeLoach, Kansas State University, United States
Andreas Dengel, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany
Enrico Denti, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy
Julie Dugdale, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Warsaw University, Poland
Paul E. Dunne, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Edmund Durfee, University of Michigan, United States
Frank Dylla, SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Germany
Thomas Eiter, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Fabrício Enembreck, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil
Floriana Esposito, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Marc Esteva, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Alessandro Farinelli, University of Verona, Italy
Maria Fasli, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Nazim Fatès, LORIA - INRIA Nancy Grand-Est, France
Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy
Edilson Ferneda, Catholic University of Brasília, Brazil
Klaus Fischer, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Germany
Roberto Flores, Christopher Newport University, United States
Claude Frasson, University of Montreal, Canada
David de la Fuente, University of Oviedo, Spain
Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan
Wai-Keung Fung, University of Manitoba, Canada
Peter Géczy, AIST, Japan
Enrico H. Gerding, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Joseph Giampapa, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy
Sylvain Giroux, DOMUS lab, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Herman Gomes, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Fernando Gomide, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Abdelkader Gouaich, LIRMM Laboratory, MontpellierII University Montpellier, France., France
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
Madhu Goyal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland
Eric Gregoire, Universite d Artois, France
Sven Groppe, University of Lübeck, Germany
Zahia Guessoum, UPMC, France
Renata Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil
Minghua He, Aston university, United Kingdom
Pedro Rangel Henriques, University of Minho, Portugal
Frans Henskens, University of Newcastle, Australia
Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Mark Hoogendoorn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ales Horak, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Enda Howley, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Marc-Philippe Huget, University of Savoie, Polytech Annecy Chambéry, France
Luke Hunsberger, Vassar College, United States
Carlos Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Luis Iribarne, University of Almería, Spain
Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
François Jacquenet, University of Saint-Étienne, France
Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Yanguo Jing, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Lalana Kagal, MIT, United States
Oleksiy Khriyenko, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Franziska Klügl, Örebro University, Sweden
Matthias Klusch, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany
Fernando Koch, Universiteit Utrecht, Brazil
László Kóczy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Martin Kollingbaum, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Victor Korotkikh, CQUniversity, Australia
Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science, Russian Federation
Boris Kovalerchuk, Central Washington University, United States
Tsvika Kuflik, Haifa University, Israel
Yau-Hwang Kuo, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Luis C. Lamb, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Anna T. Lawniczak, University of Guelph, Canada
Ho-fung Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jingpeng Li, The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Luis Jiménez Linares, University of de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Shih-Hsi Liu, California State University, Fresno, United States
Honghai Liu, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Baoding Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Stephane Loiseau, Leria, France
Noel Lopes, IPG, Portugal
Gabriel Pereira Lopes, FCT/UNL, Portugal
Adolfo Lozano-Tello, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
Hongen Lu, La Trobe University, Australia
Bernd Ludwig, University of Regensburg, Germany
José Machado, University of Minho, Portugal
Nadia Magnenat-thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Prabhat K. Mahanti, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Jan Maluszynski, Linkoeping University, Sweden
Jerusa Marchi, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Pierre Maret, Université de Saint Etienne, France
Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Tokuro Matsuo, Yamagata University, Japan
Nicola Di Mauro, Università di Bari, Italy
Amnon Meisels, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Benito Mendoza, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, United States
Ronaldo Menezes, Florida Institute of Technology, United States
Daniel Merkle, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Australia
Fatma Mili, Oakland University, United States
José Moreira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Christian Müller-Schloer, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Nysret Musliu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, United States
José Neves, University of Minho, Portugal
Jens Nimis, Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und Wirtschaft, Germany
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Luis Nunes, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Portugal
Andreas Oberweis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Michel Occello, Université Pierre-Mendès-France, France
Sancho Oliveira, Instituto Superior das Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Portugal
Andrea Omicini, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy
Flavio Oquendo, European University of Brittany - UBS/VALORIA, France
Charlie L. Ortiz, SRI International, United States
Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
Nandan Parameswaran, New South Wales University, Australia
Andrew Parkes, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Krzysztof Patan, University of Zielona Gora, Poland
Loris Penserini, FBK-IRST, Italy
Steve Phelps, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy
Ramalingam Ponnusamy, Vinayaga Missions University, India
David Powers, Flinders University, Australia
Henry Prakken, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Marco Prandini, University of Bologna, Italy
Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati, United States
Mariachiara Puviani, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Geber Ramalho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Carlos Ramos, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Marek Reformat, University of Alberta, Canada
Martin Rehák, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Luís Paulo Reis, FEUP/LIACC - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Germano Resconi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Alessandro Ricci, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy
Miguel Rocha, University of Minho, Portugal
Fátima Rodrigues, Isep/gecad, Portugal
Daniel Rodriguez, University of Alcalá, Spain
Pilar Rodriguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Juha Röning, University of Oulu, Finland
Rosaldo Rossetti, Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, LIACC/FEUP, Portugal
Ruben Ruiz, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Fariba Sadri, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Manuel Filipe Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
Jorge Gomez Sanz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Fabio Sartori, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada
Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Andrea Schaerf, Università di Udine, Italy
Christoph Schommer, University Luxembourg, Campus Kirchberg, Luxembourg
Michael Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Camilla Schwind, CNRS and Université de la Méditerranée, France
Murat Sensoy, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Peer Olaf Siebers, Nottingham University, United Kingdom
Flavio S Correa Da Silva, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ricardo Silveira, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Olivier Simonin, INRIA - LORIA, France
Iryna Skrypnyk, University of Jyvaskyla, United States
Alexander Smirnov, SPIIRAS, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
Marina V. Sokolova, Instituto de Investigacion en Informática de Albacete, Spain
Safeeullah Soomro, Yanbu University College, Saudi Arabia
Armando Sousa, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Bruno Di Stefano, Nuptek Systems Ltd., Canada
Kathleen Steinhofel, King's College London, United Kingdom
Thomas Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Toshiharu Sugawara, Waseda University, Japan
Zhaohao Sun, University of Ballarat, Australia
Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thailand
Pavel Surynek, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Gion K. Svedberg, Malmo University, Sweden
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Nick Taylor, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Patrícia Tedesco, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco/FADE, Brazil
Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Michael Thielscher, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Nicolas Troquard, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy
Paola Turci, University of Parma, Italy
Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Franco Turini, KDD Lab, University of Pisa, Italy
Paulo Urbano, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
David Uthus, Naval Research Lab, United States
Eloisa Vargiu, University of Cagliari, Italy
Brent Venable, University of Padova, Italy
Katja Verbeeck, Kaho Sint-Lieven, Belgium
Rineke Verbrugge, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Laurent Vercouter, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France
Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy
Aurora Vizcaino, Escuela Superior de Informatica, Spain
Giuseppe Vizzari, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Dirk Walther, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Yves Wautelet, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Rosina Weber, Drexel University, United States
Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Graham Winstanley, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Cees Witteveen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Stefan Woltran, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
T. N. Wong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Franz Wotawa, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Bozena Wozna-Szczesniak, Jan Dlugosz University, Poland
Feiyu Xu, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Germany
Xin-She Yang, National Physical Lab, United Kingdom
John Yen, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
Huiyu Zhou, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Jean-Daniel Zucker, UMI UMMISCO, France

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WORKSHOPS

2nd International Workshop on Semantic Interoperability - IWSI 2011
)http://www.icaart.org/IWSI.asp

Workshop Chair:
Salvatore Flavio Pileggi
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Spain

SPECIAL SESSION
Automatic Data Understanding - ADU
)http://www.icaart.org/special_sessions.asp#ADU

Chair:
Wladyslaw Homenda
Warsaw University of Technology
Poland



Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.icaart.org).