Call for papers & scope

Tenth International Workshop
"Engineering Societies in the Agents' World" (ESAW 2009)

November 18-20 2009

Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

http://www.cs.uu.nl/esaw2009

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Aims and scope:

Software agents and multi-agent systems are recognised as both useful abstractions and effective technologies for the modelling and building of complex distributed applications. However, little has been done with regard to effective and methodical development of complex software systems in terms of multi-agent societies. An urgent need exists for novel approaches to software modelling and software engineering that enable the successful deployment of software systems made up of a massive number of autonomous components, and that allow to control and predict their behaviour. It is very likely that such innovations will exploit lessons from a variety of different scientific disciplines, such as sociology, economics, organisation science, modern thermodynamics, and biology.

ESAW 2009 will be devoted to the discussion of technologies, methodologies and models for the engineering of complex applications based on MAS, and aims at bringing together researchers and contributions from both within and outside the Agents' field -- from Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Social Sciences, and others --, so as to promote cross-fertilisation among different research areas. By focussing on the social aspects of MAS, ESAW 2009 concentrates on the space of agent interaction, rather than on intra-agent issues, and on the technology and methodology issues rather than on the pure theoretical aspects.

Following successful editions since 2000, this 10th edition of ESAW remains committed to the use of the notion of multi-agent systems as seed for animated, constructive, and highly inter-disciplinary discussions about technologies, methodologies, and tools for the engineering of complex distributed applications. While the workshop places an emphasis on practical engineering issues and applications, it also welcomes theoretical, philosophical, and empirical contributions, provided that they clearly document their connection to the core applied issues.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• analysis, design, development and verification of agent societies
• modelling of complex distributed systems with agents and societies
• institutions, organisations, and open multi-agent systems
• norms, reputation, security, and trust in agents societies
• interaction/coordination patterns in agent societies
• engineering of social intelligence in multi-agent systems
• self-adapting, self-organising, and self-regulating agent societies
• agent societies and multi-agent systems in games
• simulation of societies using multi-agent systems
  

Invited speakers

• Rosaria Conte
• Jacques Ferber

Demonstration session

The aim of the demonstration session is to give participants an opportunity to show and discuss their latest developments on software related to the topics of ESAW 2009. Developers interested to participate should submit a short paper (max 3 pages) describing their demonstration. The selection of demonstrations will be done by the organisers based on the relevance for the workshop, quality, novelty, and interest for the public. The short paper of the selected demos will be included in the workshop proceedings.

The short paper for the demonstration session should be formatted according to the Springer LNAI guidelines and include: title, authors, affiliations, abstract (may be absent), keywords, software URL (if available), and the description of the software including application domain, used technologies, innovations, and relation to the conference topics.

Submission

The ESAW 2009 proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNAI series and will be directly available at the workshop.

Papers should not exceed 16 pages and should be formatted according to the Springer LNAI guidelines.

Proceedings

The series of ESAW post-proceedings is typically published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series:

	Omicini A., Tolksdorf R., Zambonelli F. (eds.): Engineering Societies in the Agents World Berlin, Germany, August 2000, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1972, Springer, 2000.
	Omicini A., Petta P., Tolksdorf R. (eds.): Engineering Societies in the Agents World II Prague, Czech Republic, July 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2203, Springer, 2002.
	Petta P., Tolksdorf R., Zambonelli F., Ossowski S. (eds.): Engineering Societies in the Agents World III Madrid, Spain, September 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2577, Springer, 2003.
	Omicini A., Petta P., Pitt J. (eds.): Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV London, UK, October 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3071, Springer, 2004.
	Gleizes M.-P, Omicini A., Zambonelli F. (eds.): Engineering Societies in the Agents World V Toulouse, France, October 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3451, Springer, 2005.
	Dikenelli, Oguz; Gleizes, Marie-Pierre; Ricci, Alessandro (eds.): Engineering Societies in the Agents World VI Kusadasi, Turkey, October 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3963, Springer, 2006.
	O’Hare, G.; Ricci, A.; O’Grady, M.; Dikenelli, O. (eds.): Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII Dublin, Ireland, September, 2006 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4457, Springer, 2007.
	Artikis, A.; O'Hare, G.M.P.; Stathis, K.; Vouros, G. (eds.): Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII Athens, Greece, October, 2007 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4995, Springer, 2008.
	Artikis, A.; Picard, G.; Vercouter, L. (eds.): Engineering Societies in the Agents World IX Saint-Etienne, France, September, 2008 Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5485, Springer, 2009
	Aldewereld, H.; Dignum, V.; Picard, G. (eds.): Engineering Societies in the Agents World X Utrecht, The Netherlands, November, 2009 Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5881, Springer, 2009