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From: gianfranco g. <giu...@de...> - 2005-11-17 13:36:39
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Il giorno mar, 15/11/2005 alle 15.22 +0100, Pablo Chacin ha scritto: > Dear Program Committee member, >=20 > 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. >=20 > Kind regards, >=20 > Workshop co-organisers, > Bjoern Schnizler, Liviu Joita and Pablo Chacin >=20 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >=20 > -------------------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 > ------------------------------------------------------- >=20 > 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 >=20 >=20 > TOPIC OF INTERESTS > Authors are encouraged (but not restricted) to submit in the following > areas:=20 >=20 > -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 >=20 > Experience reports and application demonstrators are particularly > welcomed.=20 >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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. >=20 > PAPER PROCEEDINGS=20 > Papers are expected to be published in the conference proceedings by > IEEE Computer Society. >=20 > IMPORTANT DATES=20 > Submission of papers: 1st December 2005 > Notification of acceptance: 22nd January 2006 > Camera ready version: 15th February 2006=20 >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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 >=20 > STEERING COMMITTEE > Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany=20 > Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK=20 > Daniel Veit, University of Karlsruhe, Germany=20 >=20 > PROGRAM COMMITTEE (as on October 11, 2005) >=20 > -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 >=20 >=20 |