Special Session on
Adaptation and Services: Agents, Methodologies and Applications
ASAMA 2018
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Within the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
January 16 - 18, 2018
Funchal, Madeira - Portugal
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This special session will provide the opportunity to present and discuss research in the intersection between service-oriented engineering and self-adaptive systems. Whereas classical service orientation focuses on the development of software systems by composition of reusable services, self-adaptation proved to be effective for implementing robust and flexible applications. The theory and practice of self-adaptation may be used for handling dynamic environments and for granting continuity of services also in case of unexpected changes of the operative context.


TOPICS
The special session ASAMA invites submissions in the area of self-adaptive services. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Agents for:
* Self-organizing, configuring, managing services
* Adaptive orchestration and choreography
* Decentralized feedback loop
* Dynamic Holons and Holarchies

Methodologies for:
* Requirements elicitation techniques
* QoS Optimization Techniques
* Dynamic Architectures Definition

Applications:
* Dynamic Workflows
* Internet of Things
* Socio-technical systems
* Mobile and Cloud computing
* Robotics
* Smart spaces


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: November 7, 2017
Authors Notification: November 21, 2017
Camera Ready and Registration: November 29, 2017


SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alba Amato, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ICAR-CNR), Italy
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Rafael Bordini, PUCRS, Brazil
Giacomo Cabri, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Massimo Cossentino, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Jorge Gomez Sanz, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
Maxime Morge, Université de Lille, France
Andrea Omicini, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy
Juan Pavon, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
Silvia Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Valeria Seidita, University of Palermo, Italy
Angelo Susi, FBK, Italy
Salvatore Venticinque, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy


PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: http://www.icaart.org/Templates.aspx
Please also check the Guidelines available at http://www.icaart.org/Guidelines.aspx.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the “Submit Paper” button available on the web site.


PUBLICATIONS
After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee complemented by members of the main conference program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM support - and submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI/ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index) and Scopus.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library


CONTACTS
Luca Sabatucci, e-mail: luca.sabatucci@icar.cnr.it
Claudia Di Napoli, e-mail: claudia.dinapoli@icar.cnr.it