Invitation to Agent and Multi-agent Symposium (26-28 March. 2008)

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KES-AMSTA-2008 
2nd International Symposium on Agents and Multi-agent Systems “ Technologies and 
Applications 
Incheon, Korea 
26 Mar. “ 28 Mar. 2008 
http://amsta-08.kesinternational.org 
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KES-AMSTA-08 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. 
Previous KES-AMSTA was held in Wroclaw, Poland (2007, LNAI 4496). 
KES-AMSTA-08 is organized by KES International and Inha University, Korea, and will 
take place in Incheon. 
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Submissions 
Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests on the below 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. To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed 
by the KES-AMSTA-08 International Programme Committee. The symposium 
proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series. 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 paper 
s to Doctoral Track. Special sessions are also welcome. 
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Important Dates:
Submission of papers: 4 Nov. 2007 
Notification of acceptance: 9 Dec. 2007 
Final papers to be received: 22 Dec. 2007 
Authors / Early registration: 5 Jan. 2008 
Symposium: 26 Mar. “ 28 Mar. 2008 
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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 behavior. Ontologies. 
Multi-agent Agent Systems: Cooperative distributed problem solving. Task and resource 
allocation. Mechanism design, auctions, and game theory. Modeling 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. Performance, 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 systems. E-institutions. E-commerce. 
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Contact: 
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Program Chair 
Institute of Information Science and Engineering 
Wroclaw University of Technology 
thanh@pwr.wroc.pl 
http://www.iit.pwr.wroc.pl/~nguyen/eng_index.html