AAC 2009 - 2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AGENTS FOR AUTONOMIC COMPUTING (AAC 2009)

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Category AAC 2009

Deadline: March 02, 2009 | Date: June 19, 2009

Venue/Country: Barcelona, Spain

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

to be held in conjunction with

the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2009)

June 19, Barcelona

Deadline extended to March 2

Self-management of complex systems is core to both the Autonomic

Computing and the Software

Agent communities. In both paradigms, individual autonomous entities

manage their own

behaviour and their interactions with the environment and other

autonomous entities in accordance

with their individual goals based on their local perception of state.

These entities may negotiate

with one another, and monitor and manage the resulting agreements. They

may form dynamic

virtual organizations that manage their collective behaviour in

interaction with other such

organizations. They may avail themselves of integration, repair and

other services provided by

directories, brokers and sentries, which themselves may be autonomous.

Over the course of many years, the software agents community has

developed and explored

architectures, technologies and standards that support these aspects of

agent behaviour, and have

demonstrated in multiple contexts agents and multi-agent systems that

exhibit autonomy,

goal-directed adaptive behaviour, proactivity, reactivity,

situated-ness, and an ability to learn and

plan. The relatively younger field of autonomic computing seeks to build

computing systems that

exhibit these same properties and capabilities, but with few exceptions

has failed to tap into the

rich body of knowledge developed by the agents community. Some authors

have suggested that

autonomic computing may be the long-sought "killer app" for agents.

The first AAC held during ICAC in 2008 in Chicago, made clear that the

Agents and Autonomic

Computing communities have much to gain from a closer association with

one another.

The aim of the second workshop is to further explore the potential of

the agent paradigm, architectures, models and technology for autonomic

computing;

1. identify the specific challenges of autonomic computing that would

require extensions to

the agent paradigm and current agent technologies;

2. We invite the submission of papers that describe the potential and/or

limitations of applying

traditional or new concepts in agent architecture or technology to

self-managing computing

systems, and vice versa applying techniques developed within autonomic

computing to

multi-agent systems. Papers describing and evaluating a working

prototype are particularly

welcome.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

(Meta-)Architectures for agents and multi-agent systems

Planning and scheduling

Multi-agent coordination

Learning algorithms

Adaptivity, situatedness

Emergent behaviour, emergent configurations

Service agreements

Negotiation

Large scale simulations/emulations

Mobility

Legal implications of self-management/autonomy in networked systems

Accountability, verification and validation

Reliability, Integrity and Security

Life cycle management

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Frances Brazier, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Jeff Kephart, IBM

Katia Sycara, CMU

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (provisional)

Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin

Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina

Stephen Jarvis, Warwick University

Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology

Vic Lesser, University of Massachusetts

Dejan Milojic, HP Labs

Julian Padget, University of Bath

Lin Padgham, RMIT University

H. Van Dyke Parunak, New Vectors

Omer Rana, Cardiff University

Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University

Kees Nieuwenhuis, Thales Research

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: February 16 March 2, 2009

Acceptance notification: March 9, 2009

Submission final version: April 6, 2009

WORKSHOP FORMAT:

This one-day workshop will include invited talks, paper presentations, a

forum/panel discussion

and time for discussion.

PAPERS:

Papers are to be 6 pages in length in the standard IEEE two-column

conference proceedings

Masoud Sadjadi, PhD

Assistant Professor

School of Computing and Information Sciences

Florida International University

University Park, ECS 212C

11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199

Email: sadjadics.fiu.edu

Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi

Tel: 305-348-1835

Fax: 305-348-2336