[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] -- CALL FOR PAPERS -- ==================================================================== KES-AMSTA-2008 2nd International Symposium on Agents and Multi-agent Systems ・Technologies and Applications Incheon, Korea 26 Mar. ・28 Mar. 2008 http://amsta-08.kesinternational.org ==================================================================== KES-AMSTA-08 is an international scientific symposium for research in the field of agent and multi-agent systems. The aim of the symposium is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the technologies and applications of agent and multi-agent systems. Previous KES-AMSTA was held in Wroclaw, Poland (2007, LNAI 4496). KES-AMSTA-08 is organized by KES International and Inha University, Korea, and will take place in Incheon. ==================================================================== Submissions Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests on the below indicated symposium topics and related areas of application. All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period. Contributions from more applied related fields in industry and commerce are very welcome. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference. To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the KES-AMSTA-08 International Programme Committee. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series. Submitted papers should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and should not exceed 10 pages. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues to be included in several journals indexed by ISI, KES Journal and Int. Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Ph.D. students are invited to submit paper s to Doctoral Track. Special sessions are also welcome. ==================================================================== Important Dates: Submission of papers: 4 Nov. 2007 Notification of acceptance: 22 Dec. 2007 Final papers to be received: 5 Jan. 2008 Authors / Early registration: 10 Jan. 2008 Symposium: 26 Mar. ・28 Mar. 2008 ==================================================================== Topics of Interest: Agent Systems: Formal models of agency. Agent architectures. BDI architecture. Learning, evolution, and adaptation. Perception and action. Communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics, protocols, and conversations. Knowledge representation Computational complexity. Autonomous or humanoid robots. Social robots and robot teams. Autonomy aspect. Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies. Embodied and believable agents. Emergent behavior. Ontologies. Multi-agent Agent Systems: Cooperative distributed problem solving. Task and resource allocation. Mechanism design, auctions, and game theory. Modeling other agents and self. Multi-agent planning. Negotiation protocols. Multi-agent learning. Conflict resolution. Trust and reputation management. Privacy, safety and security. Scalability, robustness and dependability. Social and organizational structures. Verification and validation. Novel computing paradigms (autonomic, grid, P2P, ubiquitous computing). Brokering and matchmaking. Agent-oriented software engineering, including implementation languages and frameworks. Mobile agents. Performance, scalability, robustness, and dependability. Verification and validation. E-business agents. Pervasive computing. Privacy, safety, and security. Tools and Applications: Simulation systems. Web services and service-oriented computing. Artificial social systems. Autonomic computing. Case studies and reports on deployments. Computational infrastructures. Information retrieval. Web services and semantic web. E-learning systems. E-institutions. E-commerce.