Special Issue of International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (IJAOSE)
on
Programming Multi-Agent Systems
Submission Deadline extended to 1 October 2006
Special Issue Editors:
About the Special Issue
A special issue of IJAOSE will be dedicated to consolidating the
combined use of AOSE methodologies and agent programming languages and
platforms for agent-based software development. One typical issue is
that of how the usual abstractions used in agent-oriented design (such
as goals, plans, protocols, roles, norms, organisations) are mapped into
specific constructs in programming languages for multi-agent systems. Of
no less importance is the provision for essential parts of the
development process, such as debugging and testing. Any major
development which has been done in accordance to well known AOSE
methodologies as well as using programming languages for multi-agent
systems would also be of significant interest. We welcome original, high
quality papers not only on these topics but more generally on the issues
surrounding AOSE and ProMAS.
Topics of Interest include but are not restricted to:
- computational semantics for MAS concepts such as beliefs, goals,
plans, roles, organisations, norms, environment, speech acts, perception
- development tools (e.g., tools for debugging and testing, IDEs, ...)
- design and implementation of coordination mechanism
- experiences in developing large-scale multi-agent systems
- specific issues related to the deployment of distributed MAS
- mobile computing and applications in multi-agent systems (e.g. pervasive computing, ambient intelligence, ...)
- methodologies for MAS design and their suitability for ProMAS techniques
- approaches to formal verification of MAS with practical case studies
- development of simulations of complex social systems using multi-agent
programming languages
Submission Details
The format of the final version of your submission should be according to the
IJAOSE submission guidelines.
The format of the first draft submission should be plain A4.
Submissions should be sent to Rafael Bordini.
There is no page limit for the first draft of the submissions.
Important Dates
- Submission: 31 August 2006 (Submission deadline is extended to 1 October 2006)
- Notification: 30 November 2006
- Final versions: 15 January 2007
- Expected publication: Spring 2007
About the Special Issue Editors
- Rafael H. Bordini is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of
Durham, and his main research interests are in the areas of programing
languages for multi-agent systems, formal methods for multi-agent
systems (in particular the use of model-checking techniques for
veryfication of agent programs), and applications of multi-agent systems
(in particular social simulation). He read for a PhD at University
College London, which he concluded in 1999, and before becoming a
lecturer in Durham, he held post-doc research positions at UFRGS-Brazil
and the University of Liverpool, UK (For further details, see
http://www.dur.ac.uk/r.bordini).
- Mehdi Dastani is a lecturer in Computer Science at the
Utrecht University. He is working in the area of multi-agent
systems and multi-agent programming for the last six years and has
published many papers on these subjects. He has been involved in the
design, development, and extensions of BOID and 3APL languages which
can support the implementation of multi-agent systems. He has given many
courses on these subjects, among which Intelligent Information
Agent, Multi-agent systems and Multi-Agent Programming. He is one of
the organisers of ProMAS (The International Workshop on Programming
Multi-Agent Systems: Languages and Tools). (For more details, please see:
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~mehdi).
- Jürgen Dix is Full Professor Chair for Computational
Intelligence and Theory and Head of Department (Computer
Science) at the Technical University of Clausthal (Dr. rer.-nat. 1992 (TU
Karlsruhe)). He is also member
of the Institute of Information Systems at TU Vienna (Austria) and
honorary member of the Department of Computer Science at Victoria
University of Manchester (United Kingdom).
He worked since 1989 in several areas of Computational
Logic (nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming, deductive databases,
knowledge representation) and, since 1998, also in
Multi-Agent Reasoning. He has published more than 170
papers and gave more than 50 invited talks/tutorials (USA, UK,
Australia, Argentina, France, Austria, Poland). He has co-authored
two monographs (MIT Press and Cambridge University Press),
co-edited 13 books (Springer LNCS, LNAI, MASA) and nine special
issues of various journals. (For more details, please see:
http://cig.in.tu-clausthal.de/).
- Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni is Full Professor at the University of Paris X. She
is also searcher at LIP6 laboratory (University Pierre and Marie Curie and
CNRS - UMR7606)and heads Multi-Agent Systems team.
Her main research topics are "Analysis, Design and Validation of
Multi-Agent Systems". She published more than 80 papers in the major
conferences of MAS field, co-edited 4 books and co-organised several
international events dedicated to Multi-Agent Systems. She also has been
invited professor and gave talks in international seminar and courses for
up-graduated students about multi-agent planning, coordination,
interaction protocols, etc. (For more details, please see:
http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~elfallah).
About IJAOSE
The objectives of IJAOSE
are to establish a communication vehicle for researchers and practitioners to promote,
publicise and exchange ideas relating to the interface between research and commercial
adoption of agent technology within the software development community. A further
objective is to bring together the two relevant communities of agent technologists and
(traditional) software engineers. Although software engineering necessarily encompasses
research and application, an individual paper in IJAOSE may address one or both of
these aspects. If a proposal is purely theoretical, some application areas need to be
indicated although empirical proof will not necessarily be required for publication in the
journal.