The 3st KES International Symposium on AGENTS AND
MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS - TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS (KES-AMSTA-09)

Uppsala, Sweden

June 3 - June 5, 2009

 

1. INTRODUCTION

KES-AMSTA-2009 is an international scientific symposium
for research in the field of agent and multi-agent systems. The aim of the
symposium is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific
research in the technologies and applications of agent and multi-agent systems.

 

Agents and multi-agent systems are related to a modern
software paradigm which has long been recognized as a promising technology for
constructing autonomous, complex and intelligent systems. This symposium will
provide and excellent opportunity for researchers to discuss modern approaches and
techniques for agent and multi-agent systems and their applications.

 

KES-AMSTA-2009 is organized by KES International and
Uppsala University, Sweden, and will take place in Uppsala.

 

2. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Papers are invited from prospective authors with
interests on the indicated symposium topics and related areas of application.
All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to
be published during the review period. Contributions from more applied related
fields in industry and commerce are very welcome.

 

All accepted papers must be presented by one of the
authors who must register for the conference and pay the fee. To ensure high
quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the KES-AMSTA-09
International Programme Committee. The symposium proceedings are planned to be
published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series (subject to confirmation).
Submitted papers should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and should not exceed 10
pages. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication
in special issues to be included in several journals indexed by ISI, KES
Journal and Int. Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Ph.D.
students are invited to submit papers to Doctoral Track. Special sessions are
also welcome.

3. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Papers are invited from prospective authors with
interests on the indicated symposium topics and related areas of application.
All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to
be published during the review period. Contributions from more applied related
fields in industry and commerce are very welcome.

 

All accepted papers must be presented by one of the
authors who must register for the conference and pay the fee. To ensure high
quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the KES-AMSTA-09
International Programme Com-mittee. The symposium proceedings are planned to be
published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series (subject to confirmation).
Submitted papers should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and should not exceed 10
pages. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication
in special issues to be included in several journals indexed by ISI, KES
Journal and Int. Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Ph.D.
students are invited to submit papers to Doctoral Track. Special sessions are
also welcome.

 

4. TOPICS OF INTEREST

Agent Systems

Formal models of agency. Agent architectures. BDI
architecture. Learning, evolution, and adaptation. Perception and action.
Communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics, protocols, and conversations.
Knowledge representation Computational complexity. Autonomous or humanoid
robots. Social robots and robot teams. Autonomy aspect. Cognitive models,
including emotions and philosophies. Embodied and believable agents. Emergent
behaviour. Ontologies.

 

Multi-agent Systems

Cooperative distributed problem solving. Task and
resource allocation. Mechanism design, auctions, and game theory. Modelling
other agents and self. Multi-agent planning. Negotiation protocols. Multi-agent
learning. Conflict resolution. Trust and reputation management. Privacy, safety
and security. Scalability, robustness and dependability. Social and
organizational structures. Verification and validation. Novel computing
paradigms (autonomic, grid, P2P, ubiquitous computing). Brokering and
matchmaking. Agent-oriented software engineering, including implementation
languages and frameworks. Mobile agents. Per-formance, scalability, robustness,
and dependability. Verification and validation. E-business agents. Pervasive
computing. Privacy, safety, and security.

 

Tools and Applications

Simulation systems. Web services and service-oriented
computing. Artificial social systems. Autonomic computing. Case studies and
reports on deployments. Computational infrastructures. Information retrieval.
Web services and semantic web. E-learning sys-tems. E-institutions. E-commerce.

5. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEES

Honorary Chair: L. Magnusson, Uppsala University, Sweden

General Co-Chairs: A. H?kansson, Uppsala University,
Sweden and N.T. Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Executive Chair: R.J. Howlett, University of Brighton, UK

Program Co-Chairs: R.L. Hartung, Franklin University,
USA, and D. Sharma, Canberra University, Australia

Local Organizing Chair: T. Palm, Uppsala University,
Sweden

Publicity Co-Chairs: Z. Kiziltan, University of Bologna,
Italy and E. Moradian, Uppsala University, Sweden

Invited Session Chair: L.C. Jain, University of South
Australia, Australia

Doctoral Track Chair: A. Pietrusiewicz, Wroclaw
University of Technology, Poland

KES-AMSTA-2009 is part of the AMSTA Series

Chair: N.T. Nguyen,

which is a sub-series of KES International Conference
Series,

 

Chairs L.C. Jain and R.J. Howlett

 

6. Programme Committee_   (Tentative list)

Ajith,Abraham            
Norwegian Univ of Science and Technology

Bielikova,Maria           
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

Brzykcy, Grazyna         Poznan University
of Technology

Capkovic,Frantisek        Institute of
Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Carbonell,Noelle           Nancy
Universite, France

Chen,Shyi-Ming           
National Taiwan University of Science & Technology

Chirayath,Jayan Kurian Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore

Chonggun,Kim              
Dept. of Computer Eng., Yeungnam University

Czarnowski,Irek            
Gdynia Maritime University, Poland

Davidson,Paul               
Blekinge Institute of Technology

Hakansson,Anne           
Uppsala University, Sweden

Hartung,Ronald             
Franklin University, Ohio, USA

Jatowt,Adam                 
Kyoto University

Jedrzejowicz ,Piotr         Gdynia Maritime
University,Poland

Jezic,Gordan                  
Unviersity of Zagreb

Jung,Jason                      
Yeungnam University, Korea

Juszczyszyn,Krzysztof    Wroclaw University of Technology

Karsaev,Oleg                  
St.-Petersburg Institute fir Informatics and Automation

Katarzyniak,Radoslaw Piotr  Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Ko,In-Young                   
Information and Communications University

Kolaczek,Grzegorz          
Wroclaw University of Technology

Krol,Dariusz                     
Wroclaw University of Technology

Kudenko,Daniel                
Dept of Computer Science, University of York

Kuwabara,Kazuhiro          
Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Lee,Eun-Ser                      
Andong National University Computer Engineering

Lee,Huey-Ming                
Chinese Culture University

Lee,Jaeho                          
The University of Seoul

Ng,Wee Keong                  
Nanyang Technological University

Orgun,Mehmet                   
Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney

Pan,Jeng-Shyang                
National Kaohsiung University of Applied Science, Taiwan

Prasad,Bhanu                    


Ras,Zbigniew                     
University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA

Reghunadhan,Rajesh          School of
Computer Science and Engineering, Bharathiar University,

                                           
Coimbatore

Ricci,Alessandro                
Alma Mater Studiorum University di Bologna

Savarimuthu,Bastin

Tony Roy                           
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Sidhu,Amandeep                
Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

Sobecki,Janusz                   
Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Takama,Yasufumi               
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Thomas,Wojciech               
Politechnika Wroclawska, Poland

Zeng,Daniel                        
Chinese Academy of Sciences and Univ of Arizona, USA

Zhan,Justin                          
CMU

Zhang,Wen-Ran                  
Georgia Southern University, USA

 

7. IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of papers: 10 Nov. 2008

Notification of acceptance: 10 Jan. 2009

Final papers to be received: 1 Feb. 2009

Authors / Early registration: 16 Feb. 2009

Symposium: 4 Jun - 5 Jun 2009

8. REGISTRATION

Please refer to the KES-AMSTA-09 website  ")http://amsta-09.kesinternational.org

9. CONTACT DETAILS

Email: amsta-09@kesinternational.org

 

Postal Address:-

KES International_2nd Floor,

145-157 St John Street London

EC1V 4PY United Kingdom

 

Best regards,

KES-AMSTA-09 Organizing Committee