IA 2011 - IA 2011 2011 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents

IA 2011
2011 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents
The 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2011) will be held within the 2011 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2011). The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. IA 2011 will aim to provide a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics. The symposium will aim to examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology. In addition, the symposium will aim to increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IA 2011 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing.

Topics
The symposium will bring together researchers from both industry and academia from the various disciplines contributing to the area on intelligent agents. Such disciplines include, but are not limited to:

Embedded and Robotic Agents
Mobile Agents

Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
Agent-Based Marketplaces
Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining
Agents for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

Agents for E-Commerce
Agents for Dialogue Systems

Environment-aware Agents
Holonic Agents
Semantic Web Agents
Human Agent Interaction

Agents for Smart Environments

Middleware Agents

Agent Interaction Protocols
Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques
Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures
Multi-Agent Planning and Re-Planning
Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
Agents Applications
Symposium Co-Chairs
Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy

Program Committee
Waleed Abdulla, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Plamen Angelov, University of Lancaster, UK
Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Diane Cook, Washington State University, USA
Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Hakan Duman, British Telecom, UK
Faiyaz Doctor, University of Essex, UK
Barbara Hammer, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Mohamed Ibrahim, Heilbronn University, Germany
Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University and CTI, Greece
Chang-Shing Lee, National University of Tainan, Taiwan
Vinczenco Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Antonio Lopez, University of Oviedo, Spain
Wolfgang Minker, University of Ulm, Germany
Rabie Ramadan, Cairo University, Egypt
Sabrina Senatore, University of Salerno, Italy
Mihaela Ulieru, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Christian Wagner, University of Essex, UK
Michael Weber, University of Ulm, Germany
Giancarlo Fortinio, University of Calabria, Italy
Thanos Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Antonina Dattolo, University of Udine, Italy
Ahmed Lotfi, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Germano Resconi, Catholic University, Italy
Fernando Buarque, University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Special Activities
Several special activities are planned:

Two tutorials:
Intelligent Agents and Smart Environments to be delivered by Professor Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Intelligent Agents for Games and the Computer Go to be delivered by Professor Chang-Shing Lee, Tainan National University, Taiwan
Two keynote speeches:
Professor Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy the talk will be entitled "Holonic Systems as Software Paradigms for Industrial Automation and Environmental Monitoring"
Profesor Emil M. Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada the talk will be entitled "Intelligent Robotic Sensor Agents"
A panel entitled "The future of Computational Intelligence Based Agents" will also be organized.