Program Topics:

Technical and position papers are solicited on the theory, methodology, technology, tools, toolkits, and environments as well as applications. Topics include, but are not limited to the following areas:

• Theory/methodology:
   

  • High-level agent specification languages for modeling and simulation.

  • Agent programming and simulation modeling languages.

  • Distributed simulation for multi-agent systems.

  • Formal models of agents and agent societies.

  • Advanced agent features for agent-directed simulation: e.g.,

    • Holonic agents for cooperation and coopetition modeling and simulation.

    • Agents with personality, agents with dynamic personality, agents with emotions, agents having different types of intelligence such as emotional intelligence, agents with multi-intelligence.

    • Influence of cultural backgrounds in agent-directed simulation.

    • Agents with several types of understanding abilities such as multivision and switchable understanding abilities,

    • Trustworthy agents, and moral agents in simulation.

    • Agent-based simulation to monitor multi-simulation studies.

    • Agents in design and monitoring of simulation experiments and analysis of results.

  • Verification, validation, testing; quality assurance; as well as failure avoidance in agent-directed simulations.
     

• Technology, tools, toolkits, and environments:
   

  • Agent infrastructures and supporting technologies (e.g., interoperability, agent-oriented software engineering environments).

  • Modeling, design, and simulation of agent systems based on service-oriented technologies, pervasive computing, web-services, grid computing, autonomic computing, ambient intelligence.

  • Agent architectures, platforms, and frameworks.

  • Standard APIs for agent simulation programming.
     

• Applications:
   

  • Simulation modeling of agent technologies at the organization, interaction          (e.g., communication, negotiation, coordination, collaboration) and agent level  (e.g., deliberation, social agents, computational autonomy).

  • Application of agent simulations in various areas such as biology, business, commerce, economy, engineering, environment, individual, group, and organizational behavior, management, simulation gaming/training, social systems.

  • Conflict management simulation with holonic agents.

  • Modeling and simulation of emergence.

Author Guide:

• Technical papers provide a longer format for presenting experience reports, research results, or descriptions of  "work in progress". They are limited to 8 pages.

• Short position papers are targeted at raising a question or framing an issue for discussion during the symposium. Position papers are limited to 3 pages.

• Poster presentations present an opportunity to present work in progress and receive feedback from colleagues. A one page write-up of the poster presentations will be included in the proceedings.

Papers should be submitted electronically to http://www.softconf.com/scs/ADS10/ . 
All papers will be subject to a peer-reviewing process by three program committee members. (Please see the key dates listed below.)

Final Paper Submission Guidelines:

All prospective authors, whose papers are accepted for inclusion in the program, will be invited to submit their position or technical  papers to ADS'10. Accepted and registered papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the SCS. In addition, the committee will select a set of best papers. Authors of these papers will be encouraged to submit appropriately expanded versions of these papers for journal publication.

Key Dates:

International Program Committee (being finalized)

• Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University

• Fernando Barros, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Rafael Bordini. Durham University, UK
• Agostino Bruzzone, University of Genoa, Italy
• Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Rosario Conte,  National Research Council, Italy
• Mehdi Dastani, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
• Paul Davis, RAND and RAND Graduate School, USA
• Virginia Dignum, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
• Julie Dugdale, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
• Bernard Espinasse, Université d'Aix-Marseille, France
• Paul Fishwick, University of Florida, USA
• Claudia Frydman, LSIS, France
• Norbert Giambiasi, LSIS, France
• Henry Hexmoor, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
• Xiaolin Hu, Georgia State University, USA
• C. Anthony Hunt, UCSF, USA
• Marco Janssen, Arizona State University, USA
• Andras Jávor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
• Desmond Saunders-Newton, USC and DARPA-IAO, USA
• Sunwoo Park, UCSF, USA
• Alessondro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
• Glen Ropella, UCSF, USA
• Charles Santoni, LSIS, France
• Hessam Sarjoughian, Arizona State University, USA
• Jeffrey Schamburg, U.S. Army TRAC - Monterey, USA
• Jeffrey Smith, Auburn University, USA
• Andreas Tolk, Old Dominion University, USA
• Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada  
• Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada
• Sule Yildirim, Gjøvik University College, Norway

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