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The Multi-Agents paradigm is more and more used as a tool for
modeling, simulating or programming complex systems, in different
disciplines: mechanics, economy, urbanism, sociology, biology,
computer science, etc.
The Complex Systems field of research focuses on the study of systems
that exhibit complexity as a phenomenon inherent to the system's
nature. The system is considered as a dynamic network of interacting
entities, where its global behavior and organization are obtained
through a non linear aggregation of the local behaviors of its
components. The system is thus considered through the perspective
of its dynamics and organization.
The Multi-Agents (MAS) field of research, while being often considered
as a sub-domain of AI, is influenced by many disciplines outside AI.
These disciplines include Biology, Ethology, Sociology, Economics,
Organization and Management Science, Complex Systems, and
Philosophy. Today MAS research activity covers different fields
of computer science: software engineering, AI, networks,
distributed systems, etc. The MAS research focuses on the
study of communications languages, interaction protocols,
multi-agents architectures and methodologies, operational and
theoretical models that facilitate the development of systems
designed as a set of autonomous interacting entities (called
agents), invested in the achievement of a collective task. Many work
has been achieved in the multi-agents domain. Multi-agents
applications are developped at a large scale in different
domains, but more efforts need to be made to come up with
theoretically grounded models or assessed methodologies for
modelling and programming complex systems using the multi-agents
paradigm.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers from MAS and
Complex Systems domains, in order to cross-fertilize research held
in both fields, and come up with, theories, tools, formal
or/and operational models and methodologies for MAS approaches
dedicated to complex systems. This workshop welcomes papers submission
from both mature work and work in progress that contribute
to cover one topic or more from the topics of interest below.
Contributions that could help to better understand why
multi-agents succeed in modelling complex systems where other
pardigms or tools fail are particularly encouraged. We encourage
also, contributions on viewing multi-agents as complex systems,
and on the use of theories and advances in complex systems field
for multi-agents modelling.
The first edition of the MA4CS
(http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~hassas//MA4CS/MA4CS05.html) workshop has
focused on both MAS systems and simulations. This 2nd edition of MA4CS
intends to focus on the important issue of control and/or
governance of complex systems based on multi-agents modeling.
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The main topics of interest include but are not restricted to:
* Multi-agents based simulation of complex systems,
* Self-organizing mechanisms in MAS
* Operational models for self-organizating systems
* Dynamics and emergent organizations in MAS
* Co-evolution of organizations in a MAS
* MAS based modeling of bio-inspired systems and systems
inspired by nature
* Tools and methodologies for multi-agents modeling of
complex systems,
* Formal models and theories of multi-agents modeling of
complex systems,
* Applications of MAS based modeling in complex systems
* Complexity and emergence control/management in MAS
The submission should not exceed 15 pages in the Springer-Verlag
LNCS style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). It
must be sent either in PostScript or PDF format to the Scientific
Organizers (Salima Hassas or Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo).
All accepted papers will be available on the day of the workshop in a
set of working notes.
Based on the quality of submitted papers, we inted to organize a
Special Issue of the ACM Transaction on Autonomous and Adaptive
Systems Journal (TAAS) where extended versions of selected papers
from this workshop will be considered for publication.
All accepted papers will be available on the day of the
workshop in a
set of working notes.
Based on the quality of submitted papers, we inted to organize a Special
Issue of the ACM Transaction on
Autonomous and
Adaptive Systems Journal (TAAS) where extended versions of
selected papers from this workshop will be
considered for publication.
Abstract submission deadline (intention of
submission)
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July 10th, 2006
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Paper submission deadline
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July 20th, 2006
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Notification of acceptance
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September 5, 2006
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Camera ready due
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September 15th, 2006
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Workshop (the workshop day is not fixed
yet)
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1 day between September 25-29, 2006
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Program Committee
Sven Brueckner
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Altarum Institute, Ann Arbor, USA
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Vincent Chevrier
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LORIA- Universite H Poincare, Nancy
1 France
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Vincent A. Cicirello
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Stockton College,
USA |
Jordi Delgado
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Universitat Politecnica
de Catalunya, Spain
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Philippe De Wilde
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Imperial College London, UK
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Bruce Edmonds
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Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK
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Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni
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LIP6, Univ. Paris X, France
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Noria Foukia
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University of Otago, New Zealand
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Maria Gini
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University of
Minnesota, USA
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Marie-Pierre Gleize
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IRIT Toulouse, France
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Tom Holvoet
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Catholic University
of Leuven, Belgium |
| Mark Jelasity |
University of
Bologna, Italy |
Anthony Kargeorgos
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University of Thessaly, Greece
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| Manolis Koubarakis |
Technical University
of Crete, Greece |
Philippe Massonet
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CETIC, Belgium |
Andrea Omicini
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University of Bologna, Italy
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Maryam Purvis
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University of Otago,
Dunedin, New Zealand
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Mikhail Smirnov
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Fraunhofer Fokus,
Berlin, Germany |
Paul Valckenaers
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Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium
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Dan Yamins
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Harvard University,
USA
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Program
| 9.00-10.00 |
The A&A Conceptual
Framework for Modelling and Engineering Complex Systems (Invited
Talk)
Alessandro Ricci , DEIS, Universita di Bologna, Italy |
| 10.00-10.30 |
A&A for modelling and
engineering Simulations in Systems Biology: a first framework based on
TusCon
Sarah Montagna, DEIS, Universita di Bologna, Italy |
| 10.30-11.00 |
A dynamical systems
approach for reliable sensor networks: adaptation, self-organizing
routing and coodination mechanisms
Jorge Simão, LIACC, aculdade de Ciências da Universidade
do Porto, Portugal |
11.00-11.30
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Coffee Break |
| 11.30-12.30 |
Multi-agent exploration of
unknown terrains (Invited talk)
Niki Trigoni, School of Computer Science and Information Systems,
Birkbeck, University of London, GB |
| 12.30 - 13.00 |
Emergent Modeling of
Complex Systems using Cooperative Self-Organising Mechanisms in MAS
(Invited paper)
Jean-Pierre Georgé, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier
Toulouse, France
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13.00 - 14.00
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Lunch
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14.00 - 14.30
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Theory for Simulations
wirh Learning Agents
Jose Hermes Lopez Prato, Brazil
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14.30 - 15:30
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The emergence of knowledge
exchange: an agent-based model of a software market.
Dr Maria Chli, Aston University, UK
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