ACSys 2008

5th Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems

in conjunction with

SYNASC-2008
10th International Symposium on
Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing
Timisoara, Romania
September 26 - 29, 2008

Workshop Chairs:

Joel Quinqueton, LIRMM, University of Montpellier II, France
Vladimir Gorodetsky, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia
Adina Magda Florea - Department of Computer Science, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania

Workshop description

Autonomous agents are software entities that are capable of independent  action in open, unpredictable environments. Agents and multi-agent  systems  are currently applied in diverse domains that require complex problem solving models. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and  developers from academia and industry in order to discuss current scientific  and technical results on using agents technology for solving complex,  distributed real-world problems.  The workshop welcomes submissions of  original, high-quality papers reporting on models or systems that have  been or are being implemented.
Experience reports and application demonstrators are particularly welcome.

Topics:

Specific topics of this workshop include, but are not limited to,  the following:

        - Multi-agent systems for modeling and simulation
        - Agent oriented software design and methodology
        - Performance analysis / modeling of multi-agent systems
        - Task-based agent context and task-oriented agents
        - Multi-agent systems in high-performance processing
        - Agents and multi-agent systems for Grid Computing
        - Recommendation agents for scientific problem solving
        - Distributed knowledge integration and sharing for scientific  applications
        - Agent based resource and service discovery
        - Agents and emergent behavior

Submission of papers:

We invite submissions in the form of:

        - full research papers,
        - short papers (work in progress), system descriptions and software demonstrations.

Papers of up to 8 pages  (IEEE style - http://synasc08.info.uvt.ro/storage/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip) must be submitted electronically to vnegru@info.uvt.ro

Extended abstracts (up to 4 pages) may be submitted for short papers and system presentations. Only full papers will be considered for publication in post-proceedings.

Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the Workshop topics.

Publication:

The papers accepted for presentation will be published in a locally edited booklet.

Papers accepted and presented at the workshop will be published in the SYNASC'08 post-proceedings edited by IEEE Computer Society (ISI Proceedings).

Workshop deadlines:

Submission of papers: July 30, 2008 (extended deadline)
Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2008
Final paper: September 1, 2008
Registration: September 1, 2008
Symposium starts: September 26, 2008
Revised papers for post-proceedings: November 21, 2008

Program Committee:

Costin Badica, Romania

Stefano Cerri, France

Alexandru Cicortas, Romania

Dan Cristea, Romania

Christo Dichev, Bulgaria

Maria Ganzha, Poland

Marie-Pierre Gleizes , France

Vladimir Gorodetsky, Russia

Vasile Palade, UK

Marcin Paprzycki, Poland

Daniel Pop, Romania

Nicolas Sabouret, France 

Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, France

Calin Sandru, Romania

Doina Tatar, Romania

Nick Szirbik, The Netherlands

Marie-Claude Thomas, France

Local Workshop organizer:

Viorel Negru - Department of Computer Science, West University of  Timisoara, Romania, vnegru@info.uvt.ro