CFP: SEAS 2006 @ SBES
14 Jun 2006, submitted by Viviane Torres da Silva (viviane at les.inf.puc-rio.br)
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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SEAS 2006
2nd Workshop on Software Engineering for Agent-oriented Systems
Florian=DBpolis, Brazil, October 16, 2006
http://www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/seas2006
Held in Conjunction with
SBES 2006 - 20th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering
http://www.inf.ufsc.br/sbes2006/
Deadline for papers submission July 24, 2006
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MOTIVATION
Developing large-scale complex systems is not just an academic exercise.
These systems are becoming far more prevalent, and we increasingly
rely on them. The software world is moving away from individual
applications (vertically integrated applications with support layers not
shared by other applications). In their place, the software world is
building custom-tuned, distributed and integrated applications.
Consequently, there is a steadily increasing demand for scalable
distributed software systems.
Fortunately, a new approach exists for building such systems.
In the last two decades, the software agent community has been =20
developing
distributed-agent societies that flexibly carry out their function in an
evolving runtime environment.
However, a critical appraisal of agent technology reveals that it =20
remains
a risky software application development approach. Despite the work of
the research community, there remains no agreement on internal models of
agency, programming languages, development methods, verification and
quality management for multi-agent systems (MAS). Likewise, solid agent
development tools do not exist.
Thus software engineering techniques should be created and successfully
used to clearly show that the agent technology can become a foundation
to build distributed software systems. In this context, the goal of
SEAS 2006 is to bring together researchers and practitioners, involved
in the development of techniques and applications, to discuss the
impacts of the agent paradigm in the development of this new brand
of systems.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
SEAS invites the research community to submit papers in all aspects
of software engineering for agent-oriented systems including the
following, but not limited to:
=EF Architectures and frameworks for MAS
=EF Aspect-oriented development for MAS
=EF Agent-oriented software metrics
=EF Agent-oriented software quality
=EF Comparative case studies between agent-oriented development versus
other paradigms
=EF Dependability in MAS
=EF Empirical and experimental case studies for MAS
=EF Fault tolerance and exception handling in MAS
=EF Formal methods for MAS
=EF Governance and law-enforcement in MAS
=EF Methods for analyzing and designing MAS
=EF Model driven development for MAS
=EF Ontology applied to MAS
=EF Requirement engineering for MAS
=EF Reuse approaches for agent-oriented software
=EF Service oriented computer for MAS
=EF Test and agent-oriented software analyzes
=EF Tools and environments for agent-oriented development
=EF Trust and reputation in MAS
=EF Verification and validation of agent-oriented software
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IMPORTANT DATES
* July 24, 2006 Deadline for papers submission
* August 15, 2006 Notification about submissions
* August 28, 2006 Camera ready copy
* October 16, 2006 SEAS Workshop
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM (Apia Time) on the dates indicated.
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FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit technical, original papers that should
not have been published or submitted to other workshops, journals
or book chapters. We encourage authors to present novel ideas,
critique of existing work, and practical studies and experiments,
which states the relationship between software engineering techniques
and agent-oriented systems.
Technical papers should be submitted according to the SBC format.
The papers should have at least 6 pages and must not exceed 12 A4
papes including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Submitted papers can be written in Portuguese or English and must
be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
More detailed guidelines for successful submissions can be found at:
http://www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/seas2006
Submitted papers will be reviewed based on originality, relevance,
technical soundness and presentation. All papers will be reviewed
by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in
CD and they will also be available in the workshop website.
It is the aim of the organizers to invite the best papers authors to
publish extended versions of their papers in the special issue
"Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems"
(http://www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/jbcs_mas) of the Journal of the
Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS - http://www.icmc.usp.br/~jbcs/).
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Carlos Lucena (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Marcelo Blois (PUCRS, Brazil)
Ricardo Choren (IME-RJ, Brazil)
Viviane Silva (UCM, Spain)
contact: Viviane Silva (viviane@fdi.ucm.es)
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