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;
- identify the specific challenges of autonomic computing that
would require extensions to the agent paradigm and current agent
technologies;
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 April 1, 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 format
(style files)
Papers submission instructions.
All workshop papers will be published in the conference proceedings by
the IEEE Computer Society or ACM. The proceedings will be distributed
during the ICAC conference.
WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE
Please note that at least one author of each accepted paper
must attend the workshop. All workshop participants must register
for both the workshop and the conference.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The call for papers can also be downloaded from
here.
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