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| From: | Maarten Sierhuis |
| Subject: | [Swarm-Modelling] CfP Agent-Directed Simulation 2008, April 14-17, 2008 Ottawa, Canada |
| Date: | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:07:17 -0700 |
*** Apologies for cross postings **** Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium (ADS'08) Crown Plaza Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Sponsored by: The Society for Modeling and Simulation International in cooperation with ACM/SIGSIM Part of the 2008 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim 2008): http://www.scs.org/confernc/springsim/springsim08/cfp/springsim08.htm Manuscript submission: October 31, 2007 Notification of acceptance: December 30, 2007 Full Camera-ready papers: January 20, 2008 ADS'08 Symposium: April 14-17, 2008 Currently, there exist many agent conferences, as well as agent-based (social) simulation conferences. However, there are not many simulation conferences where agent and simulation technology are together a central theme. It is therefore that the ADS symposium fills a gap in the agent community as well as the simulation community. The purpose of the ADS symposium is to facilitate dissemination of the most recent advancements in the theory, methodology, application, and toolkits of agent-directed simulation. Agent-directed simulation is comprehensive in the integration of agent and simulation technology, by including models that use agents to develop domain-specific simulations (this is often referred to as agent-based modeling and simulation), and by also including the use of agent technology to develop simulation techniques and toolkits that are subsequently applied, either with or without agents. Hence, agent-directed simulation consists of three distinct, yet related areas that can be grouped under two categories as follows: 1. Simulation for Agents (agent simulation): i) Simulation of Agent Systems in engineering, human and social dynamics, military applications etc. 2. Agents for Simulation:
ii) Agent-Supported Simulation deals with the use of agents as a support facility to enable computer assistance in problem solving or enhancing cognitive capabilities; iii) Agent-Based Simulation focuses on the use of agents for the generation of model behavior in a simulation study. Through the theme of agent-directed simulation, the symposium will bring together agent technologies, tools, toolkits, platforms, languages, methodologies, and applications in a pragmatic manner. In this symposium, established researchers, educators, and students are encouraged to come together and discuss the benefits of agent technology in their use and application for simulation. It is a way for people to discuss why and how they have used agent technology in their simulations, and describe the benefit of having done so.
The theme of ADS'08 is based on the observation of the following premises: The growth of new advanced distributed computing standards along with the rapid rise of e-commerce are providing a new context that acts as a critical driver for the development of next generation systems. These standards revolve around service-oriented technologies, pervasive computing, web-services, Grid, autonomic computing, ambient intelligence etc. The supporting role that intelligent agents play in the development of such systems is becoming pervasive, and simulation plays a critical role in the analysis and design of such systems. The use of emergent agent technologies at the organization, interaction (e.g., coordination, negotiation, communication) and agent levels (i.e. reasoning, autonomy) are expected to advance the state of the art in various application domains. However, modeling and testing complex agent systems that are based on such technologies is difficult. Using agent-supported simulation techniques for testing complex agent systems is up and coming field. To facilitate bridging the gap between research and application, there is a need for tools, agent programming languages, and methodologies to analyze, design, and implement complex, non-trivial agent-based simulations. Existing agent-based simulation tools are still not mature enough to enable developing agents with varying degrees cognitive and reasoning capabilities. ADS 2008 will provide a leading forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse simulation societies within computer science, social sciences, engineering, business, education, human factors, and systems engineering. The involvement of various agent-directed simulation groups will enable the cross-fertilization of ideas and development of new perspectives by fostering novel advanced solutions, as well as enabling technologies for agent-directed simulation. Program Topics --------------------
Technical and position papers are solicited on the theory, methodology, technology, tools, toolkits, and environments as well as applications. Topics include, but are not limited to the following areas: Theory/methodology: - High-level agent specification languages for modeling and simulation. - Agent programming and simulation modeling languages. - Distributed simulation for multi-agent systems. - Formal models of agents and agent societies. - Advanced agent features for agent simulation: e.g., Cooperation and coopetition modeling with holonic agents. - Agents with personality, agents with dynamic personality, agents with emotions, agents having different types of intelligence such as emotional intelligence, agents with several types of understanding abilities such as multivision understanding ability, trustworthy agents, moral agents. - Verification, validation, and testing of agent-directed simulations. Technology, tools, toolkits, and environments: - Agent infrastructures and supporting technologies (e.g., interoperability, agent-oriented software engineering environments). - Modeling, design, and simulation of agent systems based on service-oriented technologies, pervasive computing, web-services, grid computing, autonomic computing, ambient intelligence. - Agent architectures, platforms, and frameworks. - Standard APIs for agent simulation programming. Applications: - Simulation modeling of agent technologies at the organization, interaction (e.g., communication, negotiation, coordination, collaboration) and agent level (e.g., deliberation, social agents, computational autonomy). - Application of agent simulations in various areas such as biology, business, commerce, economy, engineering, environment, individual, group, and organization behavior, management, simulation gaming/training, social systems. - Conflict management simulation with holonic agents. _______________________________________________________________________ Dr. ing. Maarten Sierhuis USRA/RIACS Senior Scientist Mail Stop B269-1 Human-Centered Computing NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035 e-mail: address@hidden Phone: (650) 604-4917 Fax: (650) 604-4036 _______________________________________________________________________ This communication is intended for the use of the addressee only and may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you are not the addressee, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or use of this communication is prohibited. If you received this communication in error, please destroy it, all copies and any attachments and notify the sender as soon as possible. Any comments, statements or opinions expressed in this communication do not necessarily reflect those of NASA or USRA/RIACS, its subsidiaries and affiliates. |
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