From: Didar Zowghi (didar@it.uts.edu.au)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 11:34:28 EST
Dear Doctor Zowghi,
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Best regards,
Alessandro Garcia
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International Workshop on
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR LARGE-SCALE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
(SELMAS 2002)
Orlando, Florida - USA
May 19, 2002
In conjunction with the ICSE 2002
(Int'l Conference on Software Engineering)
http://www.teccomm.les.inf.puc-rio.br/selmas2002/
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Motivation and Goals
The development of multi-agent systems introduces additional complexity to the system modeling, design and implementation, and consequently increases the probability of manifestation of heterogeneous exceptional situations, security pitfalls and so on. In addition, as the agent paradigm is devoted to the development of complex distributed systems, a large-scale multi-agent system encompasses multiple types of agents, each of them having distinct agency properties, and it needs to satisfy multiple stringent requirements such as reliability, security, adaptability, interoperability, scalability, maintainability, and reusability. However, many existing agent-oriented solutions are far from ideal; in practice, they are often built in an ad-hoc manner and are error-prone, not generally applicable, not scalable, and not dynamic. The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the current state and future direction of research in software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems. Other particular interests of this workshop are:
(i) determine the overlap and integration of object-oriented software engineering and agent-based software engineering,
(ii) understand those issues in the agent technology that difficult or improve the production of large-scale distributed systems, and
(iii) provide a comprehensive overview of existing software engineering techniques that may successfully be applied to deal with the complexity associated with realistic multi-agent software.
Topics of Interest
The workshop is intended to cover wide ranges of topics of software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems, from theoretical foundations to empirical studies. We encourage authors to present novel ideas, critique of existing work, and practical studies and experiments, which demonstrate how software engineering techniques can assist the development of large-scale multi-agent systems. We welcome the submission of papers in all aspects of agent-multi software engineering, including (but are not restrict to) the following:
Workshop Format and Submissions
The format of the workshop will combine presentations on submitted position papers and focused discussion groups. It is the aim of the organizers to publish the proceedings of the workshop (including presented papers and summaries of discussions) in journal or book form. Attendance at the workshop is by invitation, and will be limited to facilitate lively discussion and the exchange of ideas. Prospective participants should submit electronically a position paper (between 2 and 5 pages) in PDF format to Alessandro Garcia (afgarcia@inf.puc-rio.br).
Important Dates
=> Deadline for submission: March 7, 2002 (NOW: March 15, 2002) => Accept/Reject notification: April 4, 2002 => Workshop: May 19, 2002
Workshop Organizers
Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio - Brazil
Carlos Lucena, PUC-Rio - Brazil
Jaelson Castro, UFPE - Brazil
Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna - Italy
Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Italy
Program Committee
Alexander Romanovsky (University of Newcastle - UK)
Anand Tripathi (University of Minnesota - USA)
Awais Rashid (Lancaster University - UK)
Carlos Angel Iglesias Fernandez (Politechnic University of Madrid - Spain)
Cecília Rubira (UNICAMP - Brazil)
Christina Chavez (UFBA - Brazil)
Ciaran Bryce (University of Geneve - Switzerland)
Dan Marinescu (University of Central Florida - USA)
Donald Cowan (University of Waterloo - Canada)
Eric Yu (University of Toronto - Canada)
Gerd Wagner (Eindhonven University of Technology - The Netherlands)
Gerhard Weiss (Technical University of Munich - Germany)
James Odell (OMG - USA)
Jie Xu (University of Durham - UK)
Julio Leite (PUC-Rio - Brazil)
Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University - USA)
Liz Kendall (Monash University - Australia)
Marco Mamei (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Italy)
Marcus Fontoura (IBM Almaden Research Center - USA)
Mark d'Inverno (University of Westminster - UK)
Martin Fredriksson (Blekinge Institute of Technology - Sweden)
Mike Wooldridge (University of London - UK) Mohamed Fayad (University of Nebraska - USA) Nick Jennings (Southampton University - UK)Ruy Milidiú (PUC-Rio - Brazil)
...................................................................................................... Alessandro Fabricio Garcia http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~afgarcia PhD Student mailto: afgarcia@acm.org or afgarcia@inf.puc-rio.brSoftware Engineering Laboratory - PUC-Rio TecComm Project - IBM Brazil
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