CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS
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 (microlevel) 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.
International Program Committee
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
Areas of Interest
Web Site
http://lisdip.deis.unical.it/workshops/mass10/
MALLOW web site: http://mallow2010.emse.fr/
MAS&S'10 aims at providing a forum for discussing recent
advances in Engineering Complex Systems by exploiting AgentBased 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
Carole Bernon - Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT (France)
[email protected]
Alfredo Garro - Università della Calabria (Italy)
[email protected]
Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
[email protected]
Submission Guidelines
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
The workshop proceedings will be published and distributed at the
conference.
Journal Special Issue
Selected papers presented at the workshop will be invited to a
special issue on “Engineering Complex Systems through AgentBased 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
JUNE 10, 2010: Submission of Papers (deadline EXTENDED!)
July 08, 2010:
Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection
July 30, 2010:
Submission of Camera-Ready Copies
30 Aug – 03 Sept, 2010: Workshop Takes Place