Aims and Scope
Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing (UPC) are recent paradigms with a goal to
provide computing and communication services anytime and everywhere.
In Ubiquitous Computing (UC), the objective is to provide any mobile device an
access to available services in an existing network all the time and everywhere.
Pervasive Computing (PC) often considered the same as ubiquitous computing in the
literature, is a related concept that can be distinguished from ubiquitous computing
in terms of environment conditions. The main objective in PC is to provide spontaneous
services created on the fly by mobiles that interact by ad hoc connections.
Therefore, the aim of the UPC paradigms is to move forward computational services from conventional
mode based on users/computer interactions into a new mode based on users/environment interactions.
The goal of this interaction mode is to make computational services so ubiquitous/pervasive throughout
an environment in order to become transparent to the human user. To develop ubiquitous and pervasive
services and applications, new engineering methodologies and
paradigms have been arising in recent years in the areas of software engineering,
Multi-agent Systems, and Mobile Computing.
This workshop aims to provide a forum in which to focus on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
methods, concepts, models, languages and tools that enable the design and development of practical
applications in the context of ubiquitous and pervasive computing (UPC).
It aims to bring together researchers, students and professionals from Software Engineering area,
Agent-based 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 AUPC’2009 workshop include but are not limited to:
- Agent-Oriented Software Engineering support for UPC
- Mobile agent approaches for service discovery and composition
- Coordination and interaction models for software agents
- Mobile collaboration systems for UPC
- Service-oriented agent-based architectures, protocols and deployment environments
- Methodologies and techniques for agent-based web service discovery and composition systems
- Service discovery and composition approaches
- Ontology-based approaches for service composition
- AI planning-based approaches
- Workflow-based approaches
- Learning-based approaches
- Adaptive services to client paradigm
- Spontaneous and ad hoc service emergence paradigm
- User and context self-awareness
- Bio-inspired middleware for UPC
- Self-organization of Multi-agent Systems
- Software agents security and privacy issues for UPC
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts, which should be written in English and with a very precise and concise presentation of no more than 6 pages in
ACM double-column format .
Authors are invited to send their manuscripts as an attachment (PDF or PS format)
by email to the workshop chairs at gaber@utbm.fr and bakhouya@gmail.com.
Accepted papers will be included in the ICPS proceedings and will be available on ACM Digital Library.
The authors of the papers accepted and presented at AUPC'09 will be particularly encouraged
to submit the extended versions of their papers to a special issue of ACM Transactions
on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS: http://taas.acm.org/)
Important Dates
- Full paper submission : March 30th, 2009
- Notification of acceptance: April 13th, 2009
- Final Manuscript due: April 16th, 2009
Organization
Olivier Serres (US)
Mohamed Bakhouya (FR,US)
Jaafar Gaber (FR)
Maxime Wack (FR)
Suboh A. Suboh (US)
Ahmed Nait-Sidi-Moh (FR)
Mohamed El Hachimi (CA)
Nathanael Cottin (FR)
Contact
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@utbm.fr, gaber@science.gmu.edu
http://www.utbm.fr