CALL FOR PAPERS

DOCTORAL TRACK
at
1st KES International Symposium on
AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS - TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS
(KES-AMSTA-07)
Wroclaw, Poland
May 31 – June 1, 2007

1. Introduction

An integral part of the KES-AMSTA-07 will be the Doctoral Track organized with the aim to publish students' research in the field of agents and multi-agents systems. The session will offer students the opportunity to discuss and to exchange the experience both the work in progress and almost finished dissertations. Best student paper of the KES-AMSTA-07 Doctoral Track will be selected and awarded.

2. Information for Authors

All authors of the proposal must be PH.D. students or their advisors. The papers will be reviewed by KES-AMSTA-07 International Program Committee. The best submissions will be selected for presentation at the KES-AMSTA-07 and will be included in the symposium proceedings. The papers should present original and unpublished research. The proceedings of the symposium will be published by Springer-Verlag in series LNCS/LNAI. Submitted papers for Doctoral Track should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and should be limited to 10 pages.

3. Topics of Interest

Topics include but are not limited to:

  • Formal models of agency
  • Agent architectures
  • BDI architecture
  • Learning, evolution, and adaptation
  • Perception and action
  • Conflict resolution
  • Communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics, protocols, and conversations
  • Negotiation protocols
  • 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
  • Cooperative distributed problem solving
  • Task and resource allocation
  • Emergent behavior
  • Mechanism design, auctions, and game theory
  • Modeling other agents and self
  • Multi-agent planning
  • Multi-agent learning
  • 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
  • Ontologies
  • Performance, scalability, robustness, and dependability
  • Verification and validation
  • E-business agents
  • e-institutions
  • e-commerce
  • Pervasive computing
  • Privacy, safety, and security
  • 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


4. Organization

KES-AMSTA-07 is part of the KES International Conference Series, Chairs L.C.Jain and R.J.Howlett

Honorary Chair: L.C. Jain, University of South Australia, AUSTRALIA
General Chair: N.T. Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, POLAND
General Co-Chairs: A. Grzech, Wroclaw University of Technology, POLAND, R.J. Howlett, University of Brighton, UK
Program Co-Chairs: N. Carbonell, Université Henri Poincaré, FRANCE, J. Sobecki, Wroclaw University of Technology, POLAND
Local Organizing Chair: A. Pieczynska, Wroclaw University of Technology, POLAND
Doctoral Track Chair: D. Krol, Wroclaw University of Technology, POLAND
Publicity Chair: K. Juszczyszyn, Murcia University, SPAIN

5. Important Dates

Deadline for paper submission: 17 Nov 06
Notification of acceptance: 15 Dec 06
Receipt of publication files: 07 Jan 07
Authors / Early registration: 09 Feb 07
KES-AMSTA-07 Symposium: May 31-June 1, 07

6. Contact Details

Email: amsta-07@kesinternational.org
Postal Address:
KES International
2nd Floor, 145-157 St John Street
London
EC1V 4PY
United Kingdom

More details are available at the KES-AMSTA-07 website