11th Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems

in the framework of

SYNASC 2014
16th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing

Timisoara, Romania
September 22 – 25, 2014

Workshop deadlines

+ Submission of papers (FIRM extended deadline): July 30, 2014
+ Notification of acceptance: August 17, 2014
+ Final paper: September 05, 2014
+ Registration: September 1, 2014
+ Symposium: September 22 – 25, 2014
+ Revised papers for postproceedings: November 30, 2014

Workshop chairs

+ Adina Magda Florea, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania
+ Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania

Workshop description

Autonomous agents are software entities that are capable of independent action in open, unpredictable environments. Agents and multi-agent systems are currently applied in diverse domains that require complex problem solving models. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry in order to discuss current scientific and technical results on using agent technology for solving complex, distributed real-world problems. The workshop welcomes submissions of original, high-quality papers reporting on models or systems that have been or are being implemented.
Experience reports and application demonstrators are particularly welcome.

Topics

Specific topics of this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

+ Agent-based distributed problem solving
+ Multi-agent programming languages
+ Agent oriented software design and methodology
+ Quantitative and qualitative analysis / modeling of multi-agent systems
+ Task-based agent context and task-oriented agents
+ Multi-agent systems for modeling and simulation
+ Recommendation agents for scientific problem solving
+ Distributed knowledge integration and sharing for scientific applications
+ Agent based resource and service discovery
+ Agents and emergent behavior
+ Learning in multi-agent systems
+ Modeling and analysis of complex networks
+ Synergies between agents and complex networks

Paper submission

Papers of up to 8 pages must be submitted electronically using the submission system accessible at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2014workshops .

Specific topics of this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

+ Agent-based distributed problem solving
+ Multi-agent programming languages
+ Agent oriented software design and methodology
+ Quantitative and qualitative analysis / modeling of multi-agent systems
+ Task-based agent context and task-oriented agents
+ Multi-agent systems for modeling and simulation
+ Recommendation agents for scientific problem solving
+ Distributed knowledge integration and sharing for scientific applications
+ Agent based resource and service discovery
+ Agents and emergent behavior
+ Learning in multi-agent systems

Publication

The papers accepted for presentation will be included in a locally edited proceedings (electronic version on a memory stick).
Accepted research papers should be presented at the conference and the best papers will be selected for publication in the post proceedings published by Conference Publishing Services.
Extended versions of the papers accepted and presented at the workshop will be considering to be published as a special issue in the Mathematics and Computer Science Annals of the West University of Timisoara (http://users.math.uvt.ro/~anmath/) or in SCPE – Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (http://www.scpe.org/) (under ISI Thomson evaluation). Other possibilities for publication will be formulated soon after the workshop.

Program committee

+ Stefano Cerri, France
+ Alexandru Cicortas, Romania
+ Dan Cristea, Romania
+ Christo Dichev, Bulgaria
+ Daniel J. Dubois, Italy
+ Maria Ganzha, Poland
+ Marie-Pierre Gleizes, France
+ Vladimir Gorodetsky, Russia
+ Mirjana Ivanovic, Serbia
+ Fabien Michel, France
+ Sascha Ossowski, Spain
+ Vasile Palade, UK
+ Marcin Paprzycki, Poland
+ Daniel Pop, Romania
+ Joel Quinqueton, France
+ Shahram Rahimi, USA
+ Nicolas Sabouret, France
+ Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, France
+ Daniel Stamate, UK
+ Tiberiu Stratulat, France
+ Calin Sandru, Romania
+ Doina Tatar, Romania
+ Nick Szirbik, The Netherlands
+ Salvatore Venticinque, Italy

Local Workshop organizers

+ Viorel Negru – West University of Timisoara, Romania, vnegru at info.uvt.ro
+ Victor Munteanu – West University of Timisoara, Romania, vmunteanu at info.uvt.ro