NTMS'07 Workshop

Multi-agent Systems Challenges
for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing

May 2-4, 2007, Paris-France

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Contact Info: gaber@utbm.fr
bakhouya@gwu.edu

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Aims and Scope

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 LNCS format as an attachment (PDF or PS format) by email to the workshop chairs at gaber@utbm.fr and bakhouya@gwu.edu

The suggested instructions to follow for the LNCS format are available at the conference web site NTMS 2007

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@utbm.fr or bakhouya@gwu.edu

Important Dates

Papers are to be submitted electronically

• Submission deadline: extended to April 17, 2007
• Notification acceptance: April 20, 2007
• Final Manuscript due: April 24, 2007

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@utbm.fr, gaber@science.gmu.edu
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@gwu.edu
http://hpcl.seas.gwu.edu/~bakhouya/