SELMAS 2002 - call for paper

[Mamei Marco (NRC/Boston)]

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                       --- CALL FOR PAPERS ---

                        International Workshop on
     Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems
                            (SELMAS 2002)

                        Buenos Aires, Argentina
                               May 19, 2002
                 In conjunction with the ICSE 2002
           (Int'l Conference on Software Engineering)

     http://www.teccomm.les.inf.puc-rio.br/selmas2002/

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Motivation and Goals
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The development of multi-agent systems introduces additional complexity
to 
the system modeling, design and implementation, and consequently
increases 
the probability of manifestation of heterogeneous exceptional
situations, 
security pitfalls and so on. In addition, as the agent paradigm is
devoted 
to the complex distributed system development, a large-scale multi-agent

system encompasses multiple types of agents, each of them having
distinct 
agency properties, and it needs to satisfy multiple stringent
requirements 
such as reliability, security, adaptability, interoperability,
scalability, 
maintainability, and reusability. However, many existing agent-oriented 
solutions are far from ideal; in practice, they are often built in an 
ad-hoc manner and are error-prone, not generally applicable, not
scalable, 
and not dynamic. The main goal of this workshop is to bring together 
researchers and practitioners to discuss the current state and future 
direction of research in software engineering for large-scale
multi-agent 
systems. Other particular interests of this workshop are:

(i) determine the overlap and integration of object-oriented software 
engineering and agent-based software engineering,

(ii) understand those issues in the agent technology that difficult or 
improve the production of large-scale distributed systems, and

(iii) provide a comprehensive overview of existing software engineering 
techniques that may successfully be applied to deal with the complexity 
associated with realistic multi-agent software.

Topics of Interest
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The workshop is intended to cover wide ranges of topics of software 
engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems, from theoretical 
foundations to empirical studies. We encourage authors to present novel 
ideas, critique of existing work, and practical studies and experiments,

which demonstrate how software engineering techniques can assist the 
development of large-scale multi-agent systems. We welcome the
submission 
of papers in all aspects of agent-multi software engineering, including 
(but are not restrict to) the following:

- Comparative studies between multi-agent and OO systems
- Lessons learned in agent-based software construction
- Experiments and case studies
- Advanced separation of concerns
- Design patterns, design principles, and architectural styles
- Frameworks and software architectures
- Meta-level software architectures
- Coordination technologies, infrastructures, and tools
- Domain-specific languages
- Requirements engineering
- Software reliability engineering
- Fault-tolerance techniques
- Practical coordination and cooperation frameworks
- Software testing, verification and validation techniques
- Software development environments
- Analysis and design methodologies
- System modeling and metrics
- UML application

Workshop Format and Submissions
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The format of the workshop will combine presentations on submitted
position 
papers and focused discussion groups. It is the aim of the organizers to

publish the proceedings of the workshop (including presented papers and 
summaries of discussions) in journal or book form. Attendance at the 
workshop is by invitation, and will be limited to facilitate lively 
discussion and the exchange of ideas. Prospective participants should 
submit electronically a position paper (between 2 and 5 pages) in 
Postscript or PDF format to Alessandro Garcia (address@hidden).

Important Dates
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=> Deadline for submission: March 1, 2002
=> Accept/Reject notification: April 2, 2002
=> Workshop: May 19, 2002

Workshop Organizers
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Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio - Brazil
Carlos Lucena, PUC-Rio - Brazil
Jaelson Castro, UFPE - Brazil
Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna - Italy
Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Italy

Program Committee (provisory)
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Alexander Romanovsky (University of Newcastle - UK)
Anand Tripathi (University of Minnesota - USA)
Cecília Rubira (UNICAMP - Brazil)
Christina Chavez (UFBA - Brazil)
Ciaran Bryce (University of Geneve - Switzerland)
Dan Marinescu (University of Central Florida - USA)
Eric Yu (University of Toronto - Canada)
Gerhard Weiss (University of Muenchen - Denmark)
James Odell (OMG)
Liz Kendall (Monash University - Australia)
Marco Mamei (University of Modena - Italy)
Marcus Fontoura (IBM Almaden Research Center - USA)
Mohamed Fayad (University of Nebraska - USA)
Nick Jennings (Southampton University - UK)
Simon Stobart (University of Sunderland - UK)




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