CALL FOR PAPERS
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4th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S)
"Engineering Complex Systems through Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation"
to be held at
MALLOW (Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated
Workshops) 2010, Lyon (France), 30 Aug.-03 Sept.
Multi-agent systems (MASs) provide powerful models for representing both
real-world systems and applications with an appropriate degree of
complexity and dynamics. Several research and industrial experiences
have already shown that the use of MASs offers advantages in a wide
range of application domains (e.g. financial, economic, social,
logistic, chemical, engineering). When MASs represent software
applications to be effectively delivered, they need to be validated and
evaluated before their deployment and execution, thus methodologies that
support validation and evaluation through simulation of the MAS under
development are highly required. In other emerging areas (e.g. ACE,
ACF), MASs are designed for representing systems at different levels of
complexity through the use of autonomous, goal-driven and interacting
entities organized into societies which exhibit emergent properties The
agent-based model of a system can then be executed to simulate the
behavior of the complete system so that knowledge of the behaviors of
the entities (micro-level) produce an understanding of the overall
outcome at the system-level (macro-level). In both cases (MASs as
software applications and MASs as models for the analysis of complex
systems), simulation plays a crucial role which needs to be further
investigated.
Areas of Interest
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MAS&S'10 aims at providing a forum for discussing recent advances in
Engineering Complex Systems by exploiting Agent-Based Modeling and
Simulation. In particular, the areas of interest are the following
(although this list should not be considered as exclusive):
* Agent-based simulation techniques and methodologies
* Discrete-event simulation of Multi-Agent Systems
* Simulation as validation tool for the development process of MAS
* Agent-oriented methodologies incorporating simulation tools
* MAS simulation driven by formal models
* MAS simulation toolkits and frameworks
* Testing vs. simulation of MAS
* Agents as modeling concept enabling communication between domain
experts and simulation experts
* Industrial case studies based on MAS and simulation/testing
* Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS)
* Agent Computational Economics (ACE)
* Agent Computational Finance (ACF)
* Agent-based simulation of networked systems
* Scalability in agent-based simulation
Program Chairs
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Carole Bernon - Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT (France) -
carole.bernon@irit.fr Alfredo Garro - Università della Calabria (Italy)
- alfredo.garro@unical.it Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz - Universidad Complutense
de Madrid (Spain) - jjgomez@sip.ucm.es
International Program Committee
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Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Juan Antonio Botía Blaya, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Paul Davidson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Paolo Giorgini, Università di Trento, Italy
Samer Hassan, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Vincent Hilaire, Université de Belfort-Montbéliard, France
Franziska Klügl, Örebro Universitet, Sweden
Adolfo López-Paredes, University of Valladolid, Spain
Muaz Niazi, Foundation University, Pakistan
Michael J. North, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy
Paolo Petta, OFAI, Austria
Gauthier Picard, ENSM, Saint-Etienne, France
Sébastien Picault, LIFL, Lille, France
Luca Sabatucci, ITC-irst, FBK, Italy
Valeria Seidita, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
Pietro Terna, Università di Torino, Italy
Erwan Tranvouez, LSIS, France
Giuseppe Vizzari, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Steering Committee
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Massimo Cossentino - ICAR/CNR, Italy
Giancarlo Fortino - University of Calabria, Italy
Juan Pavon - Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
Marie-Pierre Gleizes - Université Paul Sabatier, France
Wilma Russo - University of Calabria, Italy
Web Site and Contact Email for Inquiries
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http://lisdip.deis.unical.it/workshops/mass10/
MALLOW web site: http://mallow2010.emse.fr/
Submission Guidelines
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Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be
considered. Please submit full papers: 8 pages maximum in IEEEtran style
and PDF format. You can find styles for LaTeX, BibTeX and documentations
at the following address: http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the
International Program Committee. The submission link will be at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mass10atmallow10
Publication
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The workshop proceedings will be published and distributed at the
conference.
Journal Special Issue
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Selected papers presented at the workshop will be invited to a special
issue on "Engineering Complex Systems through Agent-Based Modeling and
Simulation" of a premier International Journal which is under selection;
the chosen journal will be communicated on the Workshop Web Site.
Important Dates
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May 30, 2010: Submission of Papers
July 08, 2010: Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection
July 30, 2010: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies
30 Aug - 03 Sept, 2010: Workshop Takes Place
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