MASAI 2014 - MASAI 2014 : Multi-Agent Systems and Ambient Intelligence

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Call for Papers MASAI- MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS AND AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE
http://paams.net/special-sessions/SS5-MASAI
Special Session at 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems
University of Salamanca (Spain)
4th-6th June, 2014
------DESCRIPTION------
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) technologies are expected to be sensitive, responsive, adaptive, transparent, ubiquitous, and intelligent. The three first features greatly rely on the context-aware computing, but transparency and ubiquity depend on the area of ubiquitous computing. But it is intelligence which becomes a critical feature as it makes AmI systems more sensitive, responsive, adaptive, transparent and ubiquitous. The main reason is that the intelligence feature helps in understanding user environments and, consequently, in providing them with adaptive assistance. This explains why AmI entails contributions from different areas of AI, especially from multi-agents systems (MAS).
There is a natural relationship between AmI and MAS. Indeed, AmI proposes the development of context aware systems equipped with devices that can recognize context and act accordingly. Agents provide an effective way to develop such systems since agents are reactive, proactive and exhibit an intelligent and autonomous behavior. Within agent-based AmI applications, agents react to humans based on information obtained by sensoring and their knowledge about human functioning.
The complexity of AmI systems turn their development into a challenging work demanding adequate tools that assist throughout a well-established software development process. Both tools and process should be able to adapt themselves to the diversity of AmI devices and communication technologies from an implementation point of view.
The aim of this special session is affording the opportunity for researchers interested in this subject, the development of AmI Systems, to meet and discuss on the contributed solutions that mainly use the capabilities of multi-agent systems.
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Topics of interest for the special session include (but are not limited to) the following themes:
 Models and processes for development of MAS for Ambient Intelligence
 Tools and plaforms for development of MAS for Ambient Intelligence
 Agent societies and social networks for MAS for Ambient Intelligence
 Agent cooperation and negotiation for MAS for Ambient Intelligence
 Human agent interaction, user interfaces MAS for Ambient Intelligence
 Adaptation, learning and personalization MAS for Ambient Intelligence
 Industrial experiences about MAS for Ambient Intelligence
------PUBLICATION------
Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 2014 Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag. Selected papers of the Special Session will be invited to be extended for special issues of a journal (under negotiation).
------SUBMISSION DETAILS------
Papers submitted to this workshop must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the PC members.
Submissions should be in PDF format 8 pages in length, including figures and references for the PAAMS 2014 using the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing Series Springer template, according to the detailed formatting instructions at: http://www.springer.com/series/4240?detailsPage=co...
A specific submission site within the Easychair platform will be used to receive the contributions at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paams1...
------IMPORTANT DATES------
Paper submission deadline: 20th February, 2014
Acceptance notification: 1st March, 2014
Final version submission: 10th March, 2014
Conference dates: 4th-6th June, 2014
------ORGANIZERS AND PC CHAIRS------
Antonio Fern疣dez-Caballero, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Elena Navarro, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
------PROGRAM COMMITTEE------
Javier Ja駭-Mart?ez - Universidad Polit馗nica de Valencia (Spain)
Mｪ Teresa Lez-Bona - University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Diego Lez-de-Ipi - University of Deusto (Spain)
Rafael Mart?ez-Tom疽 - National Distance Education University (Spain)
Elena Navarro - University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Paulo Novais - Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Juan Pav - University Complutense Madrid (Spain)
(TO BE EXTENDED)
Best regards,
Professor Antonio Fern疣dez-Caballero
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Associate Professor Elena Navarro
University of Castilla-La Mancha