NTMS'07 Workshop SMA for UPC, Paris-France

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NTMS'07 Workshop Multi-agent Systems Challenges
for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
May 2-4, 2007, Paris-France
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http://hpcl.seas.gwu.edu/~bakhouya/MASUPC07.html

Ubiquitous Computing (UC) deals with providing globally available services and
resources in a network by giving users the ability to access services anytime
and irrespective to their location. The main objective of Pervasive Computing
(PC) is to provide spontaneous services created on the fly by mobiles that
interact by ad hoc connections.

To develop ubiquitous and pervasive services and applications, new engineering
methodologies and software architectures that involve many dynamically
interacting software agents are required. In particular, Multiagent Systems
(MAS) with self-organizing, self-adaptive and emergence capabilities to cope
with dynamically changing context environments such as computing contexts and
user contexts are needed.

A multi-agent system that has self-organizing principles and that can exhibit
emergent behaviors presents a propitience functionality. The word propitience
comes from the Latin terms "propitius" with the suffix "-ence" from the term
emergence. A propitient system is considered as a MAS system with the ability
to self-organize in order to adapt towards the most appropriate agent
organization structures according to unpredictable changes in the environment.
An emergent behavior is delivered as result of agents-to-agents and
agent-to-environment interactions that adapt until the system hits a most
suitable affinity interaction network

This workshop aims to provide a forum in which to focus on Propitient 
Multiagent
Systems, Self-organizing and Adaptive Multiagent Systems that enable the 
design
and development of practical applications in the context of ubiquitous and
pervasive computing (UPC). It aims to bring together researchers from Software
Engineering area, Multi-agent Systems area and Mobile Computing area to reach 
a
better understanding of the relationships between them and promote their
research efforts.
List of topics

The topics of interest for MASUPC?2007 workshop include but are not limited 
to:

    * Multi-agent Systems for UPC
    * Propitient Multi-agent Systems
    * Interaction models for software agents
    * Self-organization of Multi-agent Systems
    * Spontaneous and adhoc emergence of multiagent organizations
    * Service-oriented multiagent-based architectures
    * Agent-based middleware for UPC
    * Mobile agents paradigm
    * Specification, validation and verification of multiagent systems
    * Software agents security and privacy issues

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their work in IEEE double-column format as an
attachment (PDF or PS format) by email to the workshop chairs at gaber@xxxxxxx
and bakhouya@xxxxxxx

The suggested instructions to follow for the IEEE format are available at the
conference web site NTMS 2007, http://www.ntms2007.org/ntms-themes.html

Special issue's volume of selected papers (revised and extended version),
presented at the workshop, will be published in the International Transactions
on Systems Science and Applications (ITSSA)

Questions concerning hardcopy submissions or any other issues may be directed 
to
gaber@xxxxxxx or bakhouya@xxxxxxx

Papers are to be submitted electronically

    * Draft papers should be submitted from February 20, 2007 to April 10, 
2007
    * Authors will receive the acceptance notification from March 15, 2007 to
April 15, 2007
    * Final papers for presentation should be sent before April 17, 2007

 Committees

 Salima Hassas (FR)
 Carole Bernon (FR)
 Noria Foukia (NZ,USA)
 Marie-Pierre Gleizes (FR)
 Mehdi Dastani (NL)
 Shinichi Honiden (JP)
 Zahia Guessoum (FR)
 Paolo Giorgini (IT)
 Frederique Laforest (FR)
 Jamal Bentahar (CA)
 Laurent Vercouter (FR)
 Victor M. Gonzalez (UK)
 Amir Hajjam El Hassani (FR)
 Ohbyung Kwon (KR)
 Celeste Campo Vázquez (SP)
 Franck Gechter (FR)
 Jean Charles Creput (FR)
 Fabric Lauri (FR)
 Dipanjan Chakraborty (India)
 Iyad AlShabani (FR)
 Stéphane Galland (FR)
 Mahjoub Dridi (FR)


Contact:

Dr Jaafar Gaber
Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard
Rue Thierry Mieg 90010 Belfort Cedex, France
voice: +33 (0)3-8458-3252, +33 (0)6-8134-6243
fax: +33 (0)3-8458-3342
emails: gaber@xxxxxxx, gaber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.utbm.fr

Dr Mohamed Bakhouya
George Washington University (GWU)
High Performance Computing Laboratory (HPCL)
801 22nd Street NW, Washington DC 20052
Phone: 202 994-0523, fax: 202 994-0227
emails: bakhouya@xxxxxxx
http://hpcl.seas.gwu.edu/~bakhouya/




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Dr J.Gaber
Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard
Rue Thierry Mieg 90010 Belfort Cedex, France
voice: +33 (0)3-8458-3252, +33 (0)6-8134-6243
fax: +33 (0)3-8458-3342
emails: gaber@xxxxxxx, gaber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx