KES AMSTA 2009

KES-AMSTA-2009 is an international scientific symposium for research in the field of agent and multi-agent systems. The aim of the symposium is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the technologies and applications of agent and multi-agent systems.

Agents and multi-agent systems are related to a modern software paradigm which has long been recognized as a promising technology for constructing autonomous, complex and intelligent systems. This symposium will provide and excellent opportunity for researchers to discuss modern approaches and techniques for agent and multi-agent systems and their applications.

KES-AMSTA-2009 is organized by KES International and Uppsala University, Sweden, and will take place in Uppsala.

Topics of Interest

 * Agent Systems
 * Formal models of agency
 * Agent architectures
 * BDI architecture
 * Learning, evolution, and adaptation
 * Perception and action
 * Communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics, protocols, and conversations
 * Knowledge representation Computational complexity
 * Autonomous or humanoid robots
 * Social robots and robot teams
 * Autonomy aspect
 * Cognitive models, including emotions and philosophies
 * Embodied and believable agents
 * Emergent behaviour
 * Ontologies


 * Multi-agent Systems
 * Cooperative distributed problem solving
 * Task and resource allocation
 * Mechanism design, auctions, and game theory
 * Modelling other agents and self
 * Multi-agent planning
 * Negotiation protocols
 * Multi-agent learning
 * Conflict resolution
 * Trust and reputation management
 * Privacy, safety and security
 * Scalability, robustness and dependability
 * Social and organizational structures
 * Verification and validation
 * Novel computing paradigms (autonomic, grid, P2P, ubiquitous computing)
 * Brokering and matchmaking
 * Agent-oriented software engineering, including implementation languages and frameworks
 * Mobile agents
 * Performance, scalability, robustness, and dependability
 * Verification and validation
 * E-business agents
 * Pervasive computing
 * Privacy, safety, and security


 * Tools and Applications
 * Simulation systems
 * Web services and service-oriented computing
 * Artificial social systems
 * Autonomic computing
 * Case studies and reports on deployments
 * Computational infrastructures
 * Information retrieval
 * Web services and semantic web
 * E-learning systems
 * E-institutions
 * E-commerce

Important Dates

 * Submission of papers: 10 Nov. 2008
 * Notification of acceptance: 10 Jan. 2009
 * Final papers to be received: 1 Feb. 2009
 * Authors / Early registration: 16 Feb. 2009
 * Symposium: 4 Jun - 5 Jun 2009

Programme Committee

 * has PC member::Abraham Ajith, Norwegian Univ of Science and Technology
 * has PC member::Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
 * has PC member::Grazyna Brzykcy, Poznan University of Technology
 * has PC member::Frantisek Capkovic, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
 * has PC member::Noelle Carbonell, Nancy Universite, France
 * has PC member::Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science & Technology
 * has PC member::Jayan Kurian Chirayath, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
 * has PC member::Kim Chonggun, Dept. of Computer Eng., Yeungnam University
 * has PC member::Irek Czarnowski, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland*
 * has PC member::Paul Davidson, Blekinge Institute of Technology
 * has PC member::Anne Hakansson, Uppsala University
 * has PC member::Adam Jatowt, Kyoto University
 * has PC member::Piotr Jedrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University,Poland
 * has PC member::Gordan Jezic, Unviersity of Zagreb
 * has PC member::Jason Jung, Yeungnam University, Korea
 * has PC member::Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Wroclaw University of Technology
 * has PC member::Oleg Karsaev, St.-Petersburg Institute fir Informatics and Automation
 * has PC member::Radoslaw Piotr Katarzyniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
 * has PC member::In-Young Ko, Information and Communications University
 * has PC member::Grzegorz Kolaczek, Wroclaw University of Technology
 * has PC member::Dariusz Krol, Wroclaw University of Technology
 * has PC member::Daniel Kudenko, Dept of Computer Science, University of York
 * has PC member::Kazuhiro Kuwabara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
 * has PC member::Eun-Ser Lee, Andong National University Computer Engineering
 * has PC member::Huey-Ming Lee, Chinese Culture University
 * has PC member::Jaeho Lee, The University of Seoul
 * has PC member::Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University
 * has PC member::Mehmet Orgun, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney
 * has PC member::Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Science, Taiwan
 * has PC member::Bhanu Prasad,
 * has PC member::Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA
 * has PC member::Rajesh Reghunadhan, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
 * has PC member::Alessandro Ricci, Alma Mater Studiorum Universit√† di Bologna
 * has PC member::Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu,	University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
 * has PC member::Amandeep Sidhu, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
 * has PC member::Janusz Sobecki, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
 * has PC member::Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
 * has PC member::Wojciech Thomas, Politechnika Wroclawska, Poland
 * has PC member::Daniel Zeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Univ of Arizona, USA
 * has PC member::Justin Zhan, CMU
 * has PC member::Wen-Ran Zhang, Georgia Southern University, USA

Contact Details
Email: amsta-09@kesinternational.org

Postal Address:- KES International_2nd Floor, 145-157 St John Street London EC1V 4PY United Kingdom