RTcMAS 2018: 1st International Workshop on Real-Time compliant Multi-Agent Systems 2018 Stockholmsmässan (Mässvägen 1, 125 80 Älvsjö) Stockholm, Sweden, July 15, 2018 |
Conference website | http://airtlab.dii.univpm.it/rtcmas/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rtcmas2018 |
Submission deadline | May 11, 2018 |
The 1st International workshop on Real-Time compliant Multi-Agent Systems (RTcMAS) aims at gathering contributions from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives, targeting the employment of MAS in IoT and CPS through the exploitation of methodologies, algorithms and applications from the Real Time Community. As such, RTcMAS has the potential to gather the attention of the AI-interested audience from IJCAI-ECAI and AAMAS, with the goal of building the grounds for the next-generation Intelligent CPS, capable to face the challenges of the “ever more connected” IoT era.
Submission Guidelines
Participants are invited to submit originals papers from 10 up to 16 pages in length, addressing the topics of the workshop. Papers must be edited using the LNCS format (using the LNCS proceedings template) and have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair submission page no later than the 11th May 2018.
Accepted papers, presented at the workshop by one of the authors, will be published in the LNAI Proceedings of RTcMAS (with an ISBN). Quality, relevance, and originality will impact on the acceptance of the submitted papers. Either full research reports, work-in-progress reports, and literature reviews are all welcome.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the 25th May 2018 and the camera-ready version of the papers revised according to the reviewers comments should be submitted by 15th June 2018.
Workshop notes including all accepted papers will be distributed to AAMAS, ECAI, and IJCAI 2018 registrants in electronic form. Printed workshop notes will NOT be made available to workshop participants
List of Topics
The purpose of this first “International workshop on Real-Time compliant Multi-Agent Systems” is to help creating bridges between Artificial Intelligence and Real-Time, while establishing a common ground for the development of predictable and timing-reliable intelligent Agents. Agent Oriented Programming is an outstanding expression of Distributed AI which is pervading a broad range of domains since new possibilities and challenges have been set by the advent of IoT and CPS. Nevertheless, many challenges have still to be nailed. In particular, RTcMAS intends to raise the awareness about the real need of equipping MAS with the capability of guaranteeing the respect of strict timing-constraints. In light of the recent and increasing attempts from both the communities, robust theoretical contributions and practical application have been widely acknowledged, and they are fervent and greedy to debut in the real world. Therefore, such kind of contributions from researchers, engineers, and practitioners who are interested in both theoretical and practical applications of intelligent agents and real-time systems are welcome. Ideas and suggestions on how to empower agents and artificial intelligence, both in R&D and industrial applications under timing-reliability are encouraged. Papers presenting theoretical contributions, simulators, advanced prototypes, tools, brand new or refactored techniques, and general survey papers tracking current evolutions and future directions are also welcome. RTcMAS is characterized by a single main track covering both applications and research works. Participants are invited to submit papers on all research and application aspects of Real Time compliant Multi Agent System, including, but not limited to:
- Real-Time Multi-Agent Systems
- Real-Time Autonomous Systems
- Real-Time Distributed Problem Solving
- Real-Time Smart Task Allocation and Execution
- Real-Time Negotiation and Interaction Protocols
- Simulators and Architectures for Real-Time MAS
- Agent-Oriented Programming for Control Applications
- Agent-Oriented Programming for the Internet Of Things
- Agent-Oriented Programming for Cyber-Physical Systems
- Agent Oriented Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems
- Cyber-Physical Agents
- Emergent Behavioral analysis
- Real-Time Behavior Scheduling
- Robot and Multi-robot Systems
- Simulation of Multi-Agent Systems
- Real-Time Cooperation and Coordination
- Agent Platforms for safety-critical systems
- Performance analysis of Multi-Agent Systems
- Response Time analysis in Multi-Agent Systems
- Industrial applications of Multi-Agent Systems
Committees
Program Committee
José Barbosa, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
Alessandro Biondi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Jean-Paul Calbimone, University of Applied Science Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Daniel Cesarini, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Vincent Chevrier, Université de Lorraine, France
Alevtina Dubovitskaya, University of Applied Science Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Nicola Falcionelli, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Stephan Galland, Université Bourgogne France-Comté, France
Paolo Giorgini, Università di Trento, Italy
Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP, Germany
Paulo Leitão, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
Mauro Marinoni, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Dagmawi Neway Mekuria, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Sara Montagna, Università di Bologna, Italy
Yazan Mualla, Université Bourgogne France-Comté, France
Amro Najjar, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
Eugénio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
Nelson Rodrigues, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
Michael Schumacher, University of Applied Science Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Paolo Sernani, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Arnon Sturm, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Organizing committee
Davide Calvaresi : Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, University of Applied Science Western Switzerland
Giorgio Buttazzo : Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Aldo Franco Dragoni : Università Politecnica delle Marche
Publication
It is planned to publish the proceedings with Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series
Venue
The conference will be held in Stockholmsmässan, Stockholm, Sweden, 15th July 2018.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to
d.calvaresi@sssup.it |