ABC:MI 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS
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11th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation 
(ABC:MI'16)

Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016

WWW: https://fedcsis.org/abcmi
E-mail: abcmi2016@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper 
to ABC:MI - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer 
Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2016).

FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish 
Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the 
IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, 
Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special 
Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, European Alliance 
for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems
Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT.

The field of agent technology is rapidly maturing. One of key factors 
that influence this process is the gathered body of knowledge that 
allows in-depth reflection on the very nature of designing and 
implementing agent systems. As a result, there is now significant 
knowledge on how to design and implement them. There is also a deeper 
understanding of the most important issues to be addressed in the 
process. Therefore, on the top-most level a progress in development of 
methodologies for design of agent-based systems can be seen. 
Furthermore, these methodologies are usually supported by tools that 
allow not only top level conceptualization but guide the process towards 
implementation (e.g. by generating at least some code). Next, it can 
seen that new languages for agent based systems are created, e.g. AML or 
API Calculus. Separately, tools/platforms/environments that can be used 
for design and implementation of agent systems have been through a 
number of releases, eliminating problems and adding new, important 
features. Resulting products are becoming truly robust and flexible. 
Furthermore, open source products (e.g. JADE) are surrounded by user 
communities, which often generate powerful add-on components, further 
increasing value of existing solutions.

TOPICS
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The Workshop primarily focuses on all aspects of the process that leads 
from the model of the problem domain to the actual agent-based solution. 
These aspects will cover both principled approaches and established 
practices of software engineering aimed at producing high quality 
software. In this context, research into the application of agent-based 
solutions to key challenges faced by software engineering (e.g. 
reduction of costs and delivery times, coping with a larger diversity of 
problems) will be of primary importance. ABC:MI Workshop welcomes 
submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of software agent 
engineering.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Methodologies for design of agent systems
- Multi-agent systems product lines
- Modeling agent systems
- Agent architectures
- Agent-based simulations
- Simulating and verifying agent systems
- Agent benchmarking and performance measurement
- Agent communication, coordination and cooperation
- Organization and self-organization of agent systems
- Agent languages
- Agent learning and planning
- Agent mobility
- Agent modeling, calculi, and logic
- Agent security
- Agents and Service Oriented Computing
- Agents in the Semantic Web
- Applications and Experiences


PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by April 18, 2016 (strict deadline). 
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, ISSN and DOI 
numbers will posted at the conference WWW site.
Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference 
will be invited to the Special Issue of:
- Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience
- Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (publication fee waiver for the 
papers that are going to be selected is expected)
- Multiagent and Grid Systems
- Computer Science Journal


IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: April 18, 2016 (strict deadline)
- Position paper submission: May 30, 2016
- Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016
- Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016
- Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Badica, Costin, University of Craiova, Romania
- Ganzha, Maria, University of Gdańsk and Systems Research Institute 
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- Paprzycki, Marcin, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of 
Sciences, Poland
- Rahimi, Shahram, Southern Illinois University, United States

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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- Agotnes, Thomas, University of Bergen, Norway
- Ambroszkiewicz, Stanislaw, Institute of Computer Science, Polish 
Academy of Sciences, Poland
- Barseghyan, Artak, Yerevan, Armenia
- Botía, Juan, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
- Braubach, Lars, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Budimac, Zoran, Faculty of Sciences, Univ. of Novi Sad, Serbia
- Byrski, Aleksander, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Cabri, Giacomo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Cervenka, Radovan, Whitestein Technologies AG, Slovakia
- Cetnarowicz, Krzysztof, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Fernández, Alberto, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Florea, Adina, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania
- Ivanović, Mirjana, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
- Jedrzejowicz, Piotr, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
- Jezic, Gordan, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Kaleta, Mariusz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Kruczkiewicz, Zofia, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
- Kusek, Mario, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering 
and Computing, Croatia
- Leszczyna, Rafal, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
- Letia, Ioan Alfred, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Morge, Maxime, Université Lille 1, France
- Negru, Viorel, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Neruda, Roman, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of 
the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
- Niazi, Muaz, COMSATS Institute of IT, Pakistan
- Oliveira, Eugenio, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
- Omicini, Andrea, Alma Mater Studiorum–Universita di Bologna, Italy
- Oren, Nir, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Ouedraogo, Moussa, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
- Paik, Incheon, University of Aizu, Japan
- Poggi, Agostino, DII - University of Parma, Italy
- Pokahr, Alexander, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Rimassa, Giovanni, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland
- Rykowski, Jarogniew, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
- Sakellariou, Ilias, Dept. of Applied Informatics, University of 
Macedonia, Greece
- Santoro, Corrado, University of Catania, Italy
- Schaefer, Robert, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Senatore, Sabrina, University of Salerno, Italy
- Tang, Yuqing, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
- Thimm, Matthias, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
- Venticinque, Salvatore, Second University of Naples, Italy
- Vouros, George, University of Piraeus, Greece
- Wahjudi, Paulus, Marshall Unviersity, United States


CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki


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Received on Friday, 15 January 2016 10:39:16 UTC