AAC 2009 - 2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AGENTS FOR AUTONOMIC COMPUTING (AAC 2009)

2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AGENTS FOR AUTONOMIC COMPUTING (AAC 2009)
to be held in conjunction with
the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2009)
June 19, Barcelona
Deadline extended to March 2

Self-management of complex systems is core to both the Autonomic
Computing and the Software
Agent communities. In both paradigms, individual autonomous entities
manage their own
behaviour and their interactions with the environment and other
autonomous entities in accordance
with their individual goals based on their local perception of state.
These entities may negotiate
with one another, and monitor and manage the resulting agreements. They
may form dynamic
virtual organizations that manage their collective behaviour in
interaction with other such
organizations. They may avail themselves of integration, repair and
other services provided by
directories, brokers and sentries, which themselves may be autonomous.
Over the course of many years, the software agents community has
developed and explored
architectures, technologies and standards that support these aspects of
agent behaviour, and have
demonstrated in multiple contexts agents and multi-agent systems that
exhibit autonomy,
goal-directed adaptive behaviour, proactivity, reactivity,
situated-ness, and an ability to learn and
plan. The relatively younger field of autonomic computing seeks to build
computing systems that
exhibit these same properties and capabilities, but with few exceptions
has failed to tap into the
rich body of knowledge developed by the agents community. Some authors
have suggested that
autonomic computing may be the long-sought "killer app" for agents.
The first AAC held during ICAC in 2008 in Chicago, made clear that the
Agents and Autonomic
Computing communities have much to gain from a closer association with
one another.

The aim of the second workshop is to further explore the potential of
the agent paradigm, architectures, models and technology for autonomic
computing;
1. identify the specific challenges of autonomic computing that would
require extensions to
the agent paradigm and current agent technologies;
2. We invite the submission of papers that describe the potential and/or
limitations of applying
traditional or new concepts in agent architecture or technology to
self-managing computing
systems, and vice versa applying techniques developed within autonomic
computing to
multi-agent systems. Papers describing and evaluating a working
prototype are particularly
welcome.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
(Meta-)Architectures for agents and multi-agent systems
Planning and scheduling
Multi-agent coordination
Learning algorithms
Adaptivity, situatedness
Emergent behaviour, emergent configurations
Service agreements
Negotiation
Large scale simulations/emulations
Mobility
Legal implications of self-management/autonomy in networked systems
Accountability, verification and validation
Reliability, Integrity and Security
Life cycle management

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Frances Brazier, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jeff Kephart, IBM
Katia Sycara, CMU
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (provisional)
Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin
Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina
Stephen Jarvis, Warwick University
Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology
Vic Lesser, University of Massachusetts
Dejan Milojic, HP Labs
Julian Padget, University of Bath
Lin Padgham, RMIT University
H. Van Dyke Parunak, New Vectors
Omer Rana, Cardiff University
Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University
Kees Nieuwenhuis, Thales Research

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: February 16 March 2, 2009
Acceptance notification: March 9, 2009
Submission final version: April 6, 2009

WORKSHOP FORMAT:
This one-day workshop will include invited talks, paper presentations, a
forum/panel discussion
and time for discussion.

PAPERS:
Papers are to be 6 pages in length in the standard IEEE two-column
conference proceedings

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Masoud Sadjadi, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Computing and Information Sciences
Florida International University
University Park, ECS 212C
11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199

Email: sadjadi-AT-cs.fiu.edu
Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi
Tel: 305-348-1835
Fax: 305-348-2336
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