- From: Gianluca Moro <gmoro@deis.unibo.it>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:10:02 +0100
- To: agents@cs.umbc.edu
[Apologies if you receive this more than once] CALL FOR PAPERS Seventh International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC 2008) http://p2p.ingce.unibo.it/ held at AAMAS 2008 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems Estoril, Portugal. 12 May - 16 May 2008. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 8th February 2008 Acceptance notification: 25th February 2008 Workshop: 12-13th May 2008 Camera ready for Springer LNCS post-proceedings: 30th May 2008 SCOPE Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing has attracted enormous media attention, initially spurred by the popularity of file sharing systems such as Napster, Gnutella, and Morpheus. More recently systems like BitTorrent and eDonkey have continued to sustain that attention. New techniques such as distributed hash-tables (DHTs), semantic routing, and Plaxton Meshes are being combined with traditional concepts such as Hypercubes, Trust Metrics and caching techniques to pool together the untapped computing power at the "edges" of the internet. These new techniques and possibilities have generated a lot of interest in many industrial organizations, and has resulted in the creation of a P2P working group on standardization in this area. (http://www.irtf.org/charters/p2prg.html). In P2P computing peers and services forego central coordination and dynamically organise themselves to support knowledge sharing and collaboration, in both cooperative and non-cooperative environments. The success of P2P systems strongly depends on a number of factors. First, the ability to ensure equitable distribution of content and services. Economic and business models which rely on incentive mechanisms to supply contributions to the system are being developed, along with methods for controlling the "free riding" issue. Second, the ability to enforce provision of trusted services. Reputation based P2P trust management models are becoming a focus of the research community as a viable solution. The trust models must balance both constraints imposed by the environment (e.g. scalability) and the unique properties of trust as a social and psychological phenomenon. Recently, we are also witnessing a move of the P2P paradigm to embrace mobile computing in an attempt to achieve ! even higher ubiquitousness. The possibility of services related to physical location and the relation with agents in physical proximity could introduce new opportunities and also new technical challenges. Although researchers working on distributed computing, MultiAgent Systems, databases and networks have been using similar concepts for a long time, it is only fairly recently that papers motivated by the current P2P paradigm have started appearing in high quality conferences and workshops. Research in agent systems in particular appears to be most relevant because, since their inception, MultiAgent Systems have always been thought of as collections of peers. The MultiAgent paradigm can thus be superimposed on the P2P architecture, where agents embody the description of the task environments, the decision-support capabilities, the collective behavior, and the interaction protocols of each peer. The emphasis in this context on decentralization, user autonomy, dynamic growth and other advantages of P2P, also leads to significant potential problems. Most prominent among these problems are coordination: the ability of an agent to make decisions on its own actions in the context of activities of other agents, and scalability: the value of the P2P systems lies in how well they scale along several dimensions, including complexity, heterogeneity of peers, robustness, traffic redistribution, and so forth. It is important to scale up coordination strategies along multiple dimensions to enhance their tractability and viability, and thereby to widen potential application domains. These two problems are common to many large-scale applications! Without coordination, agents may be wasting their efforts, squander resources and fail to achieve their objectives in situations requiring collective effort. This workshop will bring together researchers working on agent systems and P2P computing with the intention of strengthening this connection. Researchers from other related areas such as distributed systems, networks and database systems will also be welcome (and, in our opinion, have a lot to contribute). We seek high-quality and original contributions on the general theme of "Agents and P2P Computing". The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of special interest: - Intelligent agent techniques for P2P computing - P2P computing techniques for MultiAgent Systems - The Semantic Web, Semantic Coordination Mechanisms and P2P systems - Scalability, coordination, robustness and adaptability in P2P systems - Self-organization and emergent behavior in P2P networks - E-commerce and P2P computing - Participation and Contract Incentive Mechanisms in P2P Systems - Computational Models of Trust and Reputation - Community of interest building and regulation, and behavioral norms - Intellectual property rights in P2P systems - P2P architectures - Scalable Data Structures for P2P systems - Services in P2P systems (service definition languages, service discovery, filtering and composition etc.) - Knowledge Discovery and P2P Data Mining Agents - P2P oriented information systems - Information ecosystems and P2P systems - Security issues in P2P networks - Mobile P2P - Pervasive computing based on P2P architectures (ad-hoc networks,wireless communication devices and mobile systems) - Grid computing solutions based on agents and P2P paradigms - Legal issues in P2P networks PANEL The theme of the panel will be Conducting Business via the P2P paradigm. P2P computing has had some visible successes in applications such as file sharing and many of these applications have had a consumer or hobbyist focus, however worldwide applications based partially on P2P approaches are emerging as a viable solution to achieve scalability, autonomy and interoperability on large scale environments. This panel will discuss emerging business applications of P2P and the challenges that P2P technologies and autonomous agents must surmount in order to best support such applications. These challenges include security, trust and reputation, semantic search and interoperability, representing business protocols, checking compliance, bootstrapping systems, and performance. The panel will involve short presentations by experts in the field, both from the academia and industrial environments, followed by a discussion session involving the audience. Panel chair: Sonia Bergamaschi, full professor at the Dept. of Science Engineering, Univ. of Modena and Reggio-Emilia E-mail: bergamaschi.sonia@unimo.it. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 8th February 2008 Acceptance notification: 25th February 2008 Workshop: 12-13th May 2008 Camera ready for Springer LNCS post-proceedings: 30th May 2008 REGISTRATION Accomodation and workshop registration will be handled by the AAMAS 2008 organization along with the main conference registration. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Previously unpublished papers should be formatted according to the LNCS/LNAI author instructions for proceedings and they should not be longer than 12 pages (about 5000 words including figures, tables, references, etc.). Papers should be submitted as a pdf file through the conference management system, at the following url: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/AP2PC2008 PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be distributed to the workshop participants as workshop notes. As in previous years post-proceedings of the revised papers (namely accepted papers presented at the workshop) will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. We invite authors to check the review form our reviewers will be considering: http://www.neurogrid.net/ap2pc2007/review-form.html ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Program Co-chairs Zoran Despotovic Future Networking Lab, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe, Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany E-mail: despotovic@docomolab-euro.com Sam Joseph Dept. of Information and Computer Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA 1680 East-West Road, POST 309, Honolulu, HI 96822 E-mail: srjoseph@hawaii.edu Gianluca Moro Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems (DEIS) University of Bologna Via Venezia, 52 I-47023 Cesena (FC), Italy Tel. +39 0547 339237, Fax +39 0547 339208 Email: gmoro@deis.unibo.it Adrian Perreau de Pinninck (main contact) Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) Spanish National Research Center (CSIC) Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra, Spain Tel. +34 93 580 9570, Fax +34 93 580 9661 Email: adrianp@iiia.csic.es PROGRAM COMMITTEE Karl Aberer, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Alessandro Agostini, ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan Djamal Benslimane, Universite Claude Bernard, France Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy M. Brian Blake, Georgetown University, USA Costas Courcoubetis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Vasilios Darlagiannis, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Zoran Despotovic, DoCoMo Communications Laboratory, Germany Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Chihab Hanachi, University of Toulouse, France Sam Joseph, University of Hawaii, USA Frank Kamperman, Philips Research, The Netherlands Tan Kian Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore Birgitta Ko"nig-Ries, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Alberto Montresor, University of Bologna, Italy Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy Jean-Henry Morin, Korea University, South Korea Elth Ogston, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy Thanasis Papaioannou, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria, Dimitris Plexousakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece Martin Purvis, University of Otago, New Zealand Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Douglas S. Reeves, North Carolina State University, USA Thomas Risse, Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany Claudio Sartori, University of Bologna, Italy Heng Tao Shen, University of Queensland, Australia Francisco Valverde-Albacete, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Maurizio Vincini, University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy Fang Wang, British Telecom Group, UK Steven Willmott, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Bin Yu, North Carolina State University, USA ---------------------------------------------- Research Associate, Ph. D. Dept. Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica (DEIS) University of Bologna Via Venezia, 52, I-47023 Cesena (FC) Tel. +39 0547339237 - Fax. +39 0547339208 e-mail: gmoro@deis.unibo.it ---------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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