IOA 2017 - 2nd International Workshop on Internet of Agents

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Category multiagent systems; internet of things; artificial intelligence

Deadline: February 07, 2017 | Date: May 08, 2017-May 09, 2017

Venue/Country: Sao Paulo, Brazil

Updated: 2017-01-27 17:46:13 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

- In conjunction with AAMAS Conference 2017

- São Paulo, Brazil: May 8, 2017

- http://ioa.alqithami.com/2017/

- [ CALL FOR PAPER ] :

Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained much attention due to the

overwhelming advantages it brings to our daily lives. The metaphor “Things"

in an IoT does not only represent a variety of hardware, such as simple

sensors, actuators or complex devices (e.g., vehicles, charging stations,

heating control) it can also comprise pure software instances that might be

service-oriented or data-driven. Thus, huge interoperable networks evolve

producing large amounts of data and providing a tremendous quantity of

services that are supposed to be handled in a distributed manner. An IoT

offers the possibility to develop completely new cross-domain solutions but

also comes with a lot of challenges for areas such as data aggregation,

automated service selection or distributed planning.

On the confluence between IoT and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), there is a

strong ongoing trend for the IoT to adapt to the intelligent

nature/architecture of the MAS that we termed as “Internet of Agents”

(IoA). The IoA workshop emphasizes on the current range of nascent network

centric agents that operate on IoT infrastructures. From a broader point of

view, this includes agents’ efforts to form collaborative units as well as

the techniques and methodologies for constructing online agents that

represent interests of their actual counterparts (e.g., hardware devices or

sensors) and take actions autonomously. This workshop will reflect the

impacts of the dynamic network proliferation and start of smart agent

systems that exploit and explore opportunities heralded by the fast

social-pace of interconnectivity. From a narrow point of view, we aim to

collect, to present, and to discuss (practical) applications and cognitive

foundations surrounding agent-based approaches that successfully overcome

well-known challenges of software that operates on IoT environments in

order to identify promising scenarios that motivate a broader use of

agent-technology for the development of IoT-software.

- [ WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND AREAS ] :

The workshop seeks to attract papers concerning:

- Presenting a formal or interdisciplinary architecture of IoA,

- Discussing an experiment or prototype for IoA,

- Providing a novel approach to IoA, or

- Mapping an existing approach to IoA.

This can be through a theoretical modeling, animation, simulation, or

by presenting existing (real-world) applications.

The topics of interest for the IoA workshop will comprise all technical

issues that are related to IoT systems and can be solved via a

(multi-)agent based approach. More concrete, these include but are not

limited to:

- Agents-based interactive environments

- Architectures of cognitively reasoned things and interactions

- Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms

- Automated service discovery or selection

- Quality-of-Service (QoS) and service composition

- Computational models of distributed technologies

- IoT/M2M applications and services employing MAS

- Globalized networks and grid alliances

- Network-centric warfare, individualism or organizations

- IoA security including self-healing and self-protection

- IoA monitoring and control including

self-configuration/-adaption/-optimization

Papers may address one or more of the listed topics, although authors

should not feel limited by them. All topics and submission formats are open

to both research and industry contributions. Papers should be written in

English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed

16 pages.

- [ IMPORTANT DATES ] :

Submission DEADLINE: February 7, 2017

Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2017