PRIMA09 Final CFP
Quan...@csiro.au
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!! Submission Deadline Approaching!!
New deadline : July 31st, 2009 (Friday)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-
Agent Systems (PRIMA2009).
Nagoya Congress Center, Japan Dec 13-16, 2009.
http://www.prima2009.org/=======================================================
IMPORTANT DATES:
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Papers due: July 31st, 2009 (Fri)
Author notification: September 15th, 2009 (Tue)
Camera-ready papers due: September 30th, 2009 (Wed)
Early registration deadline: October 16th, 2009 (Fri)
Registration deadline: December 1, 2009 (Tue)
Tutorial and Workshop date : December 13, 2009 (Sun)
Conference dates: December 14 - 16, 2009 (Mon - Wed)
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INTRODUCTION
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PRIMA is the leading scientific conference for research on intelligent
agent systems and multi-agent systems, attracting high quality, state-
of-the-art research from all over the world. The conference endeavors
to bring together researchers, developers, and academic and industry
leaders, active and interested in agents and multi-agent systems,
their practices and related areas. The conference is specifically
focused on becoming the premier forum for prototype and deployed agent
systems. The conference offers an exceptional opportunity for
presentation of original work, technological advances, practical
problems and concerns of the research community.
PRIMA2009 will build on the success of its predecessor workshops and
conferences held in Hanoi, Bangkok, Guilin, Kuala Lumpur, Auckland,
Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Melbourne, Kyoto, and Singapore. Since 2007, due
to the need for an additional high-quality forum for international
researchers and practitioners to meet and share their work, the
meeting has been expanded from a workshop to a full-fledged conference.
Agent computing and technology is an exciting, emerging paradigm
expected to play a key role in many society-changing practices from
disaster response to manufacturing to agriculture. Agent and multi-
agent researchers are focused on building working systems that bring
together a broad range of technical areas from market theory to
software engineering to user interfaces. Agent systems are expected
to operate in real-world environments, with all the challenges complex
environments present. PRIMA particularly encourages reports on
development of prototype and deployed agent and multiagent systems and
experiments that demonstrate the capability of agents to handle real-
world challenges.
Papers addressing methodological or theoretical aspects or particular
aspects of agent development are also encouraged. A broad range of
topics are of interest but all papers should clearly identify how the
contribution brings the promise of practical multi-agent systems
closer and identify their scientific and/or technical contributions to
the PRIMA community.
The PRIMA demonstration session encourages demonstrations on practice
of prototype and deployed agent and multiagent systems. The PRIMA
demonstration session will be held as a part of the main conference.
The goal of the PRIMA demonstrations is to give participants an
opportunity to present the functionality of their systems, tools and
simulations. Authors of accepted papers to the main conference or the
industrial track with a demonstrable system are strongly encouraged to
apply.
For the first time PRIMA is giving authors an option to present their
accepted papers in an interactive session, rather than as a formal
oral presentation. In this interactive session, authors can take time
to show their work either electronically or as a poster and discuss
their work in depth with conference attendees. The interactive
session is separate from the demonstration session and available to
any author having a full paper accepted to the conference. The aim is
to give authors the opportunity to present their work in the most
compelling way, to best share the results of their research. Authors
can choose a presentation type, oral presentation or interactive
presentation when submitting their papers. Regardless of the
presentation type, high-quality papers will not be distinguishable in
the proceedings and will be cited identically.
The conference will also feature a doctoral mentoring program, which
is focused on supporting the doctoral students with their research by
providing them peer support. Senior and distinguished researchers
attending the conference are expected to be available for interaction
with the young and promising researchers.
As with previous PRIMA events, there will be tutorials covering a
range of important topics. A special industry track will showcase
progress in the use of real agent systems in important environments.
The conference will be located in Nagoya, at the center of Japan (West
of Tokyo, 2 hours, E of Osaka, 1.5 hours, and E of Kyoto 1 hours by
express train). Nagoya has a castle originally built by the first
Tokugawa shogun, as well as one of Japan's most important Shinto
shrines, Atsuta shrine. The conference site, Nagoya Congress Center,
is one of the most sophisticated and beautiful congress sites in Japan.
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SPECIAL MULTIMEDIA SUBMISSION FORMAT
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For some multiagent systems, especially those that aim for broad,
useful functionality, it can be challenging to convey the research
contributions of the world compellingly in a traditional paper format.
For example, often game theory research can be presented in a
compelling way in a paper format. On the other hand, the novelty and
contribution of some distributed robotic or agent systems cannot be
made clear in a paper format, but might be compelling with a
Powerpoint presentation or video. Programming languages or tools
might be best explained via a tutorial or software package showing
their power. In recognition of this, PRIMA'09, in addition to regular
paper submissions, encourages multimedia (non-paper) electronic
submissions of technical contributions. This type of work can be
submitted in whatever electronic format best conveys the research
contributions of the work, from Powerpoint presentations, to videos,
to working code to websites. These submissions will be reviewed by an
experienced group of Multiagent researchers and be provisionally
accepted or rejected. If accepted, authors are required to submit a
"traditional" paper via the normal submission process. These
provisionally accepted papers will be reviewed and then treated like
journal papers "accepted with revisions"
– authors must makechanges as suggested by the reviewers and camera ready papers will be
checked to ensure that appropriate changes have been made and the
paper meets high quality standards. Papers accepted via this
submission process will be indistinguishable from "normal" papers
in the proceedings. In addition, the electronic submission will be
made available to conference participants via DVD. The aim of this
novel process is to ensure that high-quality Multiagent research is
shared with the community, even in cases where a traditional paper
format might not highlight contributions of the work. Of specific
interest under this submission process are contributions such as:
- Agent based simulation where the space in a paper constrains the
large amount of interesting data that might be generated.
- Tools for building agents or multi-agent systems
- Intelligent, interactive agent-based systems or interfaces, where
the interesting functionality cannot be easily explained in a text
format
- Complex, interesting multi-agent behavior that is best shown in a
video format.
- Robotics, humanoids, or intelligent vehicles.
- Enterprise systems based on agents or multi-agent systems
- Web-based agent systems or multi-agent systems
Notice that the criteria for accepting work through this submission
process are still the research aspects of the work. Well engineered,
but not novel or research oriented systems are not encouraged. The
aim is specifically and narrowly to provide a mechanism to get
interesting research shared with the community even when its merit is
difficult to convey in a traditional paper format.
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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION (Papers Submissions, Due date is July 31th,
2009):
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- The deadline is July 31th, 2009 (Hawaii-Aleutian time zone at
www.time.gov).
- Submission instruction is described in the PRIMA2009 homepage (
www.prima2009.org).
- All paper submissions, except multimedia submissions, are managed by
Springer OCS (Online Conference Services). Please see
http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/PRIMA2009/servlet/Conference
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TOPICS OF INTEREST:
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Agent-based system development:
Agent-oriented software engineering
Agent development environments
Agent languages
Case studies and implemented systems
WWW and Semantic Web Agents
Web-based agents
Ontology agents
Semantic Web agents
Internet Bots
Human Agent Interaction
Agent-based simulations:
Emergent behavior Simulation-specific issues Learning:
Learning (single and multi-agent)
Computational architectures for learning Evolution, adaptation
Agent Reasoning:
Reasoning (single and multi-agent)
Planning (single and multi-agent)
Cognitive models
Ontological reasoning
Interface Agents:
Practices of Interface Agents
Interface Multi-Agents
Virtual Agents
Collaborative Interface Agents
Autonomous Interface Agents
Agent societies and social networks:
Artificial social systems
Trust and reputation
Social and organizational structure
Privacy, safety and security
Ethical and legal issues
Agent communication:
Communication languages
Communication protocols
Agent commitments
Network structures and analysis
Agent Cooperation and Negotiation:
Teamwork
Cooperation
Coalition formation
Coordination
Distributed problem solving
Formal models for modeling other agents and self
Argumentation
Negotiation and Bargaining
Persuasion
Agent Systems:
Software agents
Mobile agents
Agent-Based Assistants
Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
Socially Situated Planning Software and Pervasive Agents
Real-world Robotics:
Coordination in multi-robot systems
Modeling and analysis of multi-robot systems
Tools that are relevant for multi-robot studies
Applications of multi-robot systems to real-world problems
Other Related Areas:
Collective intelligence
Service science
P2P, Grid computing
Financial markets and algorithm trades
Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence
Programming Languages
Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
Perceptive Animated Interfaces
Scalability
Tools and Standards
Ubiquitous Software Services
Virtual Humans
The conference also welcomes relevant papers from related fields as
long as the link is made to relevance and work within the agent
community.
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Demonstration Session:
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The PRIMA demonstration session encourages demonstrations on practice
of prototype and deployed agent and multiagent systems. The PRIMA
demonstration session will be held as a part of the main conference.
The goal of the PRIMA demonstrations is to give participants an
opportunity to present their latest practices on agent and multiagent
systems. Authors of accepted papers to the main conference or the
industrial track with a demonstrable system are strongly encouraged to
apply.
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Interactive Session:
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The PRIMA interactive session is giving authors an option to present
their accepted papers in an interactive session, rather than as a
formal oral presentation. In this interactive session, authors can
take time to show their work either electronically or as a poster and
discuss their work in depth with conference attendees. The
interactive session is separate from the demonstration session and
available to any author having a full paper accepted to the
conference. The aim is to give authors the opportunity to present
their work in the most compelling way, to best share the results of
their research. Authors can choose a presentation type, oral
presentation or interactive presentation when submitting their
papers. Regardless of the presentation type, high-quality papers will
not be distinguishable in the proceedings and be will be cited
identically.
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Industrial Practices Session (Industrial Track) :
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The PRIMA Conference Industry Track is dedicated to collect, present
and discuss contributions reporting on industrial and commercial
deployment of software agent technologies and practices. If you are
working to commercialize agent technologies, or developing real-world
practices based on the agent technologies, you are invited to submit
papers on your current works.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Experiences gained from commercialization attempts
Investment analysis of agent technologies
Insights into markets appropriate for agent technologies
Commercial application of agents
Application case studies
Practices on agent-based e-government
Practices on agent-based automation and logistics
Practices on agent-based telecommunication, media and entertainment
Practices on agent-based healthcare systems
Practices on agent-based smart living, ambient intelligence.
Practices on biotechnology
Practices on monitoring and maintenance, and surveillance
Practices on managing large scale infrastructures
Practices on software development
Other practices of agents, such as in the non-profit sector
Barriers to adoption or adoption facilitators
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PUBLICATION:
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All accepted papers are going to be published from Springer LNCS/LNAI.
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SPECIAL EVENTS:
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- Agent School
- RoboCup
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SPONSORS:
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- MACC (Multi Agent and Cooperative Computing Workshop)
- IEEE Computer Society (Approval pending)
- Arches, Inc. (
http://www.arches.co.jp)=======================================================
SUPPORTERS:
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- Commemorative Organization for the Japan World Exposition '70
(
http://www.expo70.or.jp/e/)- SCAT (Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology
Research )
- Kayamori Foundation
- Nagoya Institute of Technology
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ORGANIZATION:
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General Chairs:
Jung-Jin Yang (Catholic University of Korea, Korea),
Makoto Yokoo (Kyushu University, Japan)
Program Chairs:
Takayuki Ito (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan),
Zhi JIN (Peking Univ., China),
Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
Industry Track Program Chairs:
Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka University, Japan),
Minjie Zhang (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Publicity Cochairs:
Shigeo Matsubara (Kyoto University, Japan)
Tony Bastin Roy Savarimuthu (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Sponsorship Chairs:
Nirmit V Desai (IBM, India),
Akihiko Ohsuga (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Tutorial / Interactive session Chair:
Tsunenori Mine (Kyushu University, Japan)
The Duy Bui (Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam)
Workshop Chair:
Quan Bai (CSIRO, Australia)
Naoki Fukuta (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Financial Chair:
Tokuro Matsuo (Yamagata University, Japan)
Valentin Robu (Southampton University, England)
Publications Chair:
Takahiro Uchiya (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Gita Sukthankar (University of Central Florida, US)
Agent School & Doctoral Mentoring Track Chair:
Hiromitsu Hattori (Kyoto University, Japan)
Jane Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Local Arrangement Chair:
Hirofumi Yamaki (Nagoya University, Japan)
Shohei Kato (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Agent Event Chair: (RobuCup)
Itsuki Noda (AIST, Japan)
Xiaoping Chen, (USTC, China)
Oliver Obst, (CSIRO, Australia)
Advisory committee members:
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan),
Hideyuki Nakashima (Future University of Hakodate, Japan),
Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia),
Muninder P. Singh (North Carolina State University, US),
Alexis Drogoul (University of Paris 6, France),
Von Won Soo (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan),
R. Sadananda (University of New South Wales, Australia)