CFP - 8th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S'14), Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS
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8th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S'14)

Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014

WWW: http://fedcsis.org/mass
E-mail: mass2014@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper 
to MAS&S 2014 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer 
Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014).

FedCSIS is a yearly international multi-conference organized by the 
Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation 
with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, 
IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special 
Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for 
Information Processing, European Alliance for Innovation, IEEE-CIS 
Poland Section Chapter, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Committee 
of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society 
for Business Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and 
Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and 
Eastern Cluster ICT Poland.

Multi-agent systems (MASs) provide powerful models for representing both 
real-world systems and applications with an appropriate degree of 
complexity and dynamics. Several research and industrial experiences 
have already shown that the use of MASs offers advantages in a wide 
range of application domains (e.g. financial, economic, social, 
logistic, chemical, engineering). When MASs represent software 
applications to be effectively delivered, they need to be validated and 
evaluated before their deployment and execution, thus methodologies that 
support validation and evaluation through simulation of the MAS under 
development are highly required. In other emerging areas (e.g. ACE, 
ACF), MASs are designed for representing systems at different levels of 
complexity through the use of autonomous, goal-driven and interacting 
entities organized into societies which exhibit emergent properties The 
agent-based model of a system can then be executed to simulate the 
behavior of the complete system so that knowledge of the behaviors of 
the entities (micro-level) produce an understanding of the overall 
outcome at the system-level (macro-level). In both cases (MASs as 
software applications and MASs as models for the analysis of complex 
systems), simulation plays a crucial role that needs to be further 
investigated.

TOPICS
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MAS&S'14 aims at providing a forum for discussing recent advances in 
Engineering Complex Systems by exploiting Agent-Based Modeling and 
Simulation. In particular, the areas of interest are the following 
(although this list should not be considered as exclusive):

  - Agent-based simulation techniques and methodologies
  - Discrete-event simulation of Multi-Agent Systems
  - Simulation as validation tool for the development process of MAS
  - Agent-oriented methodologies incorporating simulation tools
  - MAS simulation driven by formal models
  - MAS simulation toolkits and frameworks
  - Testing vs. simulation of MAS
  - Industrial case studies based on MAS and simulation/testing
  - Agent-based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS)
  - Agent Computational Economics (ACE)
  - Agent Computational Finance (ACF)
  - Agent-based simulation of networked systems
  - Scalability in agent-based simulation

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by April 11, 2014. Preprints will be 
published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. 
Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the 
IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, 
proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will 
posted at the conference WWW site.  Since 2012, Proceedings of the 
FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. 
Moreover, extended versions of selected papers presented during the 
conference will be published as Special Issue(s).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: April 11, 2014
- Position paper submission: May 12, 2014
- Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014
- Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014
- Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Cossentino, Massimo, ICAR-CNR, Italy
- Fortino, Giancarlo, Universita della Calabria, Italy
- Hilaire, Vincent, Université de Belfort-Montbéliard, France

STEERING COMMITTEE
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- Cossentino, Massimo, ICAR-CNR, Italy
- Fortino, Giancarlo, Universita della Calabria, Italy
- Gleizes, Marie-Pierre, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
- Hilaire, Vincent, Université de Belfort-Montbéliard, France
- Pavon, Juan, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Russo, Wilma, Universita della Calabria, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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- Arcangeli, Jean-Paul, Université Paul Sabatier, France
- Bernon, Carole, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
- Botía, Juan, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
- Davidsson, Paul, Malmö University, Sweden
- Garro, Alfredo, University of Calabria, Italy
- Gomez-Sanz, Jorge J., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Gravina, Raffaele, University of Calabria, Italy
- Guerrieri, Antonio, University of Calabria, Italy
- Hassan, Samer, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Jedrzejowicz, Piotr, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
- Klügl, Franziska, Örebro Universitet, Sweden
- López-Paredes, Adolfo, INSISOC - University of Valladolid, Spain
- Molesini, Ambra, Università di Bologna, Italy
- Niazi, Muaz, Pakistan
- Petta, Paolo, OFAI, Austria
- Picard, Gauthier, EMSE, Saint Etienne, France
- Seidita, Valeria, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
- Terna, Pietro, Università di Torino, Italy
- Vizzari, Giuseppe, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy

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