[agents] 1st CFP Workshop on Agreement Technologies (WAT 2008)

[Vicente Julian]

[Apologies for multiple copies.]



             IBERAMIA 2008 Workshop on Agreement Technologies (WAT 2008)
                                  October 14th, 2008
                      Lisbon University Institute - ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal
                      http://wat2008.gti-ia.dsic.upv.es/ 


INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE
Agreement Technologies is a new approach of Distributed Artificial Intelligence for constructing large-scale open distributed computer systems. This Workshop on Agreement Technologies is specifically addressed for any work that aims at developing models, frameworks, methods and algorithms for constructing such systems.  In other words, this WS focuses on approaches and solutions for the needs of next generation computing systems where autonomy, interaction and mobility will be the key issues. Most importantly, the WS will concentrate on techniques that enable software components to reach agreements on the mutual performance of services. Semantic alignment, negotiation, argumentation, decision making, knowledge modelling, virtual organisations and learning will be the sandbox techniques used to build this next generation of software systems.

Agreement Technologies integrates many research efforts from different fields of Artificial Intelligence. Hence, this Workshop is specifically tailored to research works related to this new approach. In this sense Iberamia is a good forum in which scientist from Ibero-America and abroad can discuss their ideas and works. Moreover, Iberamia represents one of the leading Artificial Intelligence conferences for Ibero-american researchers in the field. 
The overall focus includes topics such as (but not limited to):

Artificial social systems
Trust and reputation
Social and organizational structure
Teamwork, coalition formation, coordination
Distributed problem solving
Electronic markets and institutions
Economically-motivated agents
Game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative)
Social choice theory, voting protocols
Auction and mechanism design
Argumentation, negotiation and bargaining
Agent commitments
Agent development environments
Semantic alignment, ontologies.

DELIVERY AND PAPER SUBMISSION
Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. 
All papers should represent original and previously unpublished work that are currently 
not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome. 
The papers will be rigorously reviewed and 
assessed according to the research quality, maturity of the presented 
research results and the relevance to the workshop.

Papers should be written in English and formatted according to the 
Springer LNCS style, which can be obtained in 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, and not exceed 12 pages 
including references and figures. Paper submissions should be sent by e-mail to wat2008 at dsic.upv.es in PDF format by the submission deadline. 

Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers from an 
International Program Committee. All accepted workshop papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. 
Selected papers will be published in a journal special post-proceeding issue 

IMPORTANT DATES

- Deadline for paper submission: July 24th, 2008
- Notification date: September 2nd, 2008
- Final date for camera-ready copy: September 12th, 2008 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Marc Esteva (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spain)
Adriana Giret (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Alberto Fernandez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Vicente Julian (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)


STEERING COMMITTEE

Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Vicente Botti (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Axel Polleres (DERI Galway, Ireland)
Carlos Angel Iglesias (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
Carlos Carrascosa (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Christian Lemaitre (LANIA, Mexico)
Christiano Castelfranchi (to be confirmed)
David Pearce (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Eugenio de Oliveira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Eva Onaindia (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Helder Coelho (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Holger Billhardt (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Jaelson Castro (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Juan Manuel Serrano (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Katia Sycara (to be confirmed)
Luis Botelho (ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal)
Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Maria Jose Ramirez (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Michael Luck (King's College London, UK)
Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)
Pablo Noriega (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Viviane Torres da Silva (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)