Call for Papers
New information systems and recent applications (ubiquitous computing, networking, transport...) are often distributed, large scale, open, heterogeneous and characterized by a dynamic environment. Millions of software entities or electronic devices with computing facilities are connected with each other, and are required to behave coherently often in pursuit of extremely complex and distributed goals in dynamic environments. Challenges in modeling, implementing, deploying and controlling these systems are significant.
Massively multi-agent systems provide a suitable design paradigm and an implementation method for these systems. As infrastructure of massively multi-agent systems, technologies such as grid computing together with semantic annotation can be combined with agent technologies. A new system design approach -- society-centered design -- may be realized by embedding participatory technologies in human society. Applications include large-scale navigation, scientific or social simulations, e-science, e-homes, e-offices and e-cities.
MMAS 2009 will build on the success of its predecessors: CCMMS 2007, held in conjunction with AAMAS 2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii; MMAS 2006, held jointly with LSMAS 2006, in conjunction with AAMAS 2006; and MMAS 2004, which was held at Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan, December 10 - 11, 2004. The aim of CCMMS 2008 is to encourage existing activity in the field; to bring together computer science, information science and social science experts concerned with coordination and
Control in MMAS, and applications of MMAS; and to share their perceptions and explore future research challenges.
Areas of Interest are: (we would prefer not to rigorously limit topics under the general category of the workshop.)
- Massively Multi-Agent Infrastructures
- Massively Multi-Sensor Systems
- Self-Organization Technologies for Massively Multi-Sensor Systems
- Design and Analysis of Massively Multi-Agent Systems
- Large-scale Participatory Technologies
- Massively Multi-Agent Coordination and Control
- Integrating Massively Multi-agent Systems and Social Worlds
- Applications of Massively Multi-Agent Systems
- Massively Multi-Agent Simulation
- Mega-Scale Navigation
- General Issues in Massively Multi-Agent Systems
Submission
The workshop will consist of oral presentations and/or invited talks.
Submit your full paper (ps or pdf, pdf is preferable) written in English, by e-mail to MMAS2009-workshop@agents.usask.ca. Full papers should be submitted camera-ready in Springer Lecture Notes Series (LNCS/LNAI) format. Please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer Web page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Submitted full papers should be 12 to 15 pages long in the LNCS/LNAI format. Surface mail address, e-mail addresses should be included for all contributing authors.
Deadline for submitting full paper: February 1, 2009
Author notification: March 1, 2009
Deadline for camera ready paper: March 15, 2009
Workshop: May 11 or 12, 2009
All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two or three reviewers from the program committee. The program committee will evaluate each research paper based on relevance (to the workshop), significance, clarity, originality and correctness. Our plan is that selected papers will be published as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer.
Program Co-Chairs
Zahia Guessoum, University of Paris 6, France (Primary Contact)
Nadeem Jamali, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Toshiharu Sugawara, Waseda University, Japan
Program Committee
Myriam Abramson, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
K. Suzanne Barber, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Dan Corkill, University of Massachusetts, USA
Raj Dasgupta, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Keith Decker, University of Delaware, USA
Alexis Drogoul, IRD, France
Satoru Fujita, Hosei University, Japan
Hiromitsu Hattori, Kyoto University, Japan
Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan
Nadia Kabachi, LIRIS, University of Lyon, France
WooYoung Kim, Intel Inc., USA
Yasuhiko Kitamura, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan
Victor R. Lesser, University of Massachusetts, USA
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Roger Mailler, University of Tulsa, USA
René Mandiau, Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambrésis, France
Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Laboratories of America Inc., USA
Hideyuki Nakashima, Future University, Japan
Michael J. North, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Akihiko Ohsuga, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Charlie Ortiz, Artificial Intelligence Center, USA
Ei-ichi Osawa, Future University, Japan
Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Paul Scerri, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Olivier Simonin, Université Henri Poincaré, France
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Walt Truszkowski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Gaku Yamamoto, IBM Software Group, Japan
Jung-Jin Yang, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea
Franko Zambonelli, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
