[Repast-developer] Re: AGC2006 Workshop

[gianfranco g. <giu...@de...>]

Il giorno mar, 15/11/2005 alle 15.22 +0100, Pablo Chacin ha scritto:
> Dear Program Committee member,
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> We would like to remind you that the submission deadline for Agent based
> Grid Computing (AGC) is approaching -- 1 December 2005 (see also the
> workshop website: http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/O.F.Rana/agc2006/). We would
> be delighted if you can contributed to the track's success by submitting
> papers, as well as by forwarding the attached Call for Papers to your
> research groups and mailing lists.
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> Kind regards,
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> Workshop co-organisers,
> Bjoern Schnizler, Liviu Joita and Pablo Chacin
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> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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> -------------------CALL FOR PAPERS--------------------
>               Agent based Grid Computing
>                          at=20
> 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid=20
>                    (CCGrid 2006)=20
>               May, 16-19, 2006, Singapore=20
>             http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/agc2006/=20
> -------------------------------------------------------
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> DESCRIPTION=20
> Grid Computing is an active research area which promises to provide a
> flexible=20
> infrastructure for complex, dynamic and distributed resource sharing.
> Recent=20
> research on Grid has largely focused on issues of performance,
> scalability and=20
> standardisation. Managing access to computing and data resources is a
> complex=20
> and time consuming task. As Grid computing matures, deciding which
> systems to=20
> use, where the data resides for a particular application domain, how to
> migrate=20
> the data to the point of computation (or vice versa), and data rates
> required to=20
> maintain a particular application behaviour become significant. There
> are still=20
> issues to be tackled such as: semantically enhanced service descriptions
> and=20
> specification of resources, autonomy, collaboration and economic
> models,=20
> self-organisation and learning, intelligence and adaptability. Many of
> these=20
> research areas offer new opportunities to Grid Computing researchers.
> Some have=20
> already been addressed within the multi-agent systems community.=20
> Agent and multi-agent technologies provide a promising approach to make
> Grid=20
> technologies and solutions based on Grid and Cluster technologies
> smarter, more=20
> flexible, and adaptable. Often, within the multi-agent community, agents
> are=20
> restricted to small numbers of agents -- and often agents undertake
> similar tasks.=20
> To support Grid computing, agents can offer different roles, be
> organised into=20
> dynamic "groups", and be able to migrate between groups to support load
> balancing.=20
> Therefore agents could play an important role in Grid Computing, and
> Grid Computing
>  can offer useful testbeds for investigating Agent services. The Grid is
> not only a=20
> low level infrastructure for supporting computation, but can also
> facilitate and=20
> enable information and knowledge sharing at the higher semantic levels,
> to support=20
> knowledge integration and dissemination.=20
> The aim of this workshop is to bring together infrastructure developers,
> applications=20
> developers, and researchers, who are working towards the vision of a
> Grid using agent=20
> and multi-agent based technologies. The workshop will also aim to
> inspire and encourage=20
> collaboration between these two communities.=20
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> TOPIC OF INTERESTS
> Authors are encouraged (but not restricted) to submit in the following
> areas:=20
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> -Performance analysis/modeling of multi-agent communities=20
> -Performance enhancement methodologies for mobile and multi-agent
> systems=20
> -Agent frameworks and infrastructure to support the Grid=20
> -Software engineering support for scalable multi-agent systems=20
> -Support for managing and establishing multi-agent communities=20
> -Approaches for managing Grid systems (such as nature-inspired
> approaches)
> -Grid Economics and Business Models
> -Supporting service discovery and service management using agent-based
> approaches
> -Recommender agents for scientific problem solving=20
> -Ontology support for scientific applications=20
> -Integrating ontologies with Grid Services=20
> -Agent-based resource and service management in Grid environments=20
> -Agent-based load balancing and metacomputing support=20
> -Agent-based network monitoring and characterisation=20
> -Data migration and management via agents=20
> -Grid markets mechanisms and agent-based technologies=20
> -Agent-based computational economics=20
> -Agent application in simulation environments=20
> -Modeling of economic systems using agent-based paradigms=20
> -Empirical results using agent-based simulation environments=20
> -Environment description and metric definitions for Grid simulations=20
> -Evaluation of dynamic pricing and trading mechanisms using autonomous
> agents=20
> -Generation of knowledge in complex decision situations using autonomous
> agents=20
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> Experience reports and application demonstrators are particularly
> welcomed.=20
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> SUBMISSION DETAILS
> Authors should submit papers of not more than 8 pages of double column
> text using single=20
> spaced 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11
> manuscript=20
> guidelines (see http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm  for
> instructions).=20
> -All papers must be original work authorized to be released.=20
> -No submission of material that has been previously published.=20
> -Papers must be written in English language.=20
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> Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print
> on a PostScript=20
> printer. Please do not embed specialist fonts (such as Asian fonts) in
> the PDF. Electronic=20
> submission by e-mail is strongly encouraged. Hard copies should be sent
> only if electronic=20
> submission is not possible. Submission implies the willingness of at
> least one of the=20
> authors to register and present the paper. Please e-mail your papers to=20
> Liviu Joita - l....@cs..., Bjoern Scnhizler -
> Bjo...@iw...,=20
> or Pablo Chacin - pc...@ac..., which is the preferred method for
> submission.=20
> Put AGC-CCGrid2006-Workshop in the e-mail subject.
> In addition, authors should submit an ASCII abstract, with the following
> information: title of=20
> paper; names and affiliations of authors; name, email, snail mail, phone
> number, and fax number=20
> of primary contact. The same information should be included on the first
> page of submitted papers.=20
> Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee.
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> PAPER PROCEEDINGS=20
> Papers are expected to be published in the conference proceedings by
> IEEE Computer Society.
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> IMPORTANT DATES=20
> Submission of papers: 1st December 2005
> Notification of acceptance: 22nd January 2006
> Camera ready version: 15th February 2006=20
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> WORKSHOP CHAIRS/ORGANISERS
> Pablo Chacin=20
> Universitat Polit=EF=BF=BDnica de Catalunya=20
> Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors=20
> UPC Campus Nord, Despatx C6-002
> Jordi Girona, 1-3=20
> 08034 Barcelona,=20
> Spain=20
> Email: pc...@ac... =20
> Tel: +34 (0) 93 4011055=20
> Fax: +34 (0) 93 4017055=20
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> Liviu Joita (Primary Contact)
> Cardiff University,=20
> School of Computer Science and Welsh e-Science Centre=20
> Queen's Buildings
> 5 The Parade, Roath
> Cardiff CF24 3AA
> UK=20
> Email: L....@cs...
> Tel: +44 (0) 29 20874000 Extension No.: 77399=20
> Fax: +44 (0) 29 20874598=20
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> Bjoern Schnizler=20
> University of Karlsruhe (TH)=20
> Information Management and Systems=20
> Englerstra=EF=BF=BD 14=20
> 76131 Karlsruhe=20
> Germany=20
> Email: Bjo...@iw...
> Tel: +49 (0) 721 6088385=20
> Fax: +49 (0) 721 6088399=20
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> STEERING COMMITTEE
> Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany=20
> Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK=20
> Daniel Veit, University of Karlsruhe, Germany=20
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> PROGRAM COMMITTEE (as on October 11, 2005)
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> -Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK
> -Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
> -Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia
> -Geoffrey Fox, University of Indiana, USA
> -Felix Freitag, University of Catalonia, Spain
> -Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK
> -Gianfranco Giulioni, Universita Politecnica delle Marche Ancona, Italy
> -Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden
> -Chris Kenyon, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
> -Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA
> -Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
> -Leandro Navarro, University of Catalonia, Spain
> -Dirk Neumann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
> -Giselher Pankratz, The FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany
> -Line Catherine Pouchard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA=20
> -Fehti Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia
> -Simon Chong-Wee See, Sun Microsystem Inc., Singapore
> -Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
> -Jan Staellaert, University of Connecticut, USA
> -York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
> -Niranjan Suri, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition  IHMC, USA
> -Christof Weinhardt, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
> -Floriano Zini, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
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