ICAART 2009

CAART is organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication), with technical co-sponsorship by the WfMC and in cooperation with AAAI and APPIA.

SCOPE

The purpose of the 1st International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in these areas. Two simultaneous but strongly related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work within the area of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general, including web applications, on one hand, and within the area of non-distributed AI, including the more traditional areas such as Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception and also not so traditional areas such as Reactive AI Systems, Evolutionary Computing and other aspects of Computational Intelligence and many other areas related to intelligent systems, on the other hand.

A substantial amount of research work is ongoing in these knowledge areas, in an attempt to discover appropriate theories and paradigms to use in real-world applications. Much of this important work is therefore theoretical in nature. However there is nothing as practical as a good theory, as Boltzman said many years ago, and some theories have indeed made their way into practice. Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Artificial Intelligence and Distributed AI, including Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; This conference intends to emphasize this connection, therefore, authors are invited to highlight the benefits of Information Technology (IT) in these areas. Ideas on how to solve problems using agents and artificial intelligence, both in R&D and industrial applications, are welcome. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICAART with an ISBN. A book with the best papers of the conferene will be published by Springer-Verlag. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Additional information can be found at http://www.icaart.org/

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following conference areas:

1. Artificial Intelligence 2. Agents

AREA 1: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Uncertainty in AI     - Model-Based Reasoning - Machine Learning - Logic Programming - Ontologies - Data Mining - Constraint Satisfaction - State Space Search - Case-Based Reasoning - Cognitive Systems - Natural Language Processing - Intelligent User Interfaces - Reactive AI     - Vision and Perception - Pattern Recognition - Ambient Intelligence - AI and Creativity - Artificial Life - Soft Computing - Evolutionary Computing - Neural Networks - Fuzzy Systems - Planning and Scheduling - Game playing - Expert Systems - Industrial applications of AI

AREA 2: AGENTS

- Distributed Problem Solving - Agent Communication Languages - Agent Models and Architectures - Multi-Agent Systems - Brokering and matchmaking - Cooperation and Coordination - Conversational Agents - Negotiation and Interaction Protocols - Programming Environments and Languages - Task Planning and Execution - Autonomous Systems - Cognitive Robotics - Group Decision Making - Web Intelligence - Web Mining - Semantic Web - Grid Computing - Agent Platforms and Interoperability - SOA and Software Agents - Simulation - Economic Agent Models - Social Intelligence - Security and Reputation - Mobile Agents - Pervasive Computing - Privacy, safety and security

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Edward H. Shortliffe, Arizona State University, United States Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Yves Demazeau, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France Timo Honkela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. Please check the paper formats so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web site must be strictly used for all submitted papers. The submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure: 1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity. LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted. 2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types: Full Paper Submission A full paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a �??full paper�?? (30 min. oral presentation), a �??short paper�?? (20 min. oral presentation) or a �??poster�??.

Position Paper Submission A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready: After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer. The proceedings will be indexed by INSPEC and DBLP. The proceedings of ICAART 2009 will be evaluated, for possible indexation, by EI and ISI Proceedings after their publication.

IMPORTANT DATES

Full Paper Submission: July 22, 2008 Position Paper Submission: October 1, 2008 Authors Notification: October 14, 2008 Final Paper Submission and Registration: October 28, 2008 Conference date: 19 - 21 January, 2009

SECRETARIAT

ICAART Secretariat Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8556 Email: secretariat@icaart.org Web: http://www.icaart.org

VENUE

Well known worldwide for its wine, Porto is one of the most ancient European cities. It was born and developed from the northern bank of the Douro river (i.e. the �??river of Gold�??) during the Middle Ages. One of the most significant aspects of Porto and its historical centre is its landscape, combining harmony with the urban structure and presenting a frame of rare beauty. The city was classified as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1996. When discovering Porto, you will find many surprises. Besides its welcoming and conservative environment, Porto is also contemporary and artistic. This is shown not only in the streets, architecture, monuments and museums but also in the terraces, restaurants and leisure and shopping areas.

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon/IT, Portugal

PROGRAM CHAIR

Bernadette Sharp, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom

HONORARY CHAIR

Pedro Henriques, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Rodrigo Agerri, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Rudolf Albrecht, University of Innsbruck, Austria Andreas Andreou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Snorre Aunet, University of Oslo, Norway Thomas �?gotnes, University of Bergen, Norway Robert Babuska, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Bart Baesens, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Antonio Bahamonde, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain Jim Baldwin, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Steve Barker, King's College London, United Kingdom Senén Barro,University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany Michael Beetz, Technical University of Munich, Germany Nabil Belacel, National Research Council Canada, Canada Carole Bernon, University Paul Sabatier, France Enrique Bonsón, University of Huelva, Spain Rafael H. Bordini, University of Durham, United Kingdom Djamel Bouchaffra, University at Buffalo, United States Jean-Louis Boulanger, University of Technologie of Compiegne, labo HEUDIASYC UMR 6599, France Danielle Boulanger, MODEME, Jean Moulin university, Lyon, France Paolo Bresciani, ITC-Irst, Italy Silvia Calegari, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland Valerie Camps, IRIT, University Paul Sabatier, France Jaelson Castro, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Jose Jesus Castro-Schez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada Radovan Cervenka, Whitestein Technologies, Slovakia Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Vincent Chevrier, Universités de Nancy - CNRS �?? INRIA, France Adam Cheyer, SRI International, United States Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy Diane Cook, Washington State University, United States Massimo Cossentino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Scott A. DeLoach, Department of Computing & Information Sciences Kansas State University, United States Andreas Dengel, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Germany Jüergen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Andrej Dobnikar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Patrick Doherty, Linköping University, Sweden Wlodzislaw Duch, Copernicus University, Poland Julie Dugdale, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France Yaniv Eytani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States Antonio Fernández-Caballero, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain Edilson Ferneda, Catholic University of Brasilia, Brazil Adina Florea, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania Wai-Keung Fung, University of Manitoba, Canada Alessandro Garcia, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Peter Geczy, AIST, Japan Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia Joseph Giampapa, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy Marie-Pierre Gleizes, IRIT, University Paul Sabatier, France Fernando Gomide, State University of Campinas, Brazil Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland Sven Groppe, University of Lübeck, Institute of Information Systems, Germany Rune Gustavsson, Blekinge institute of technology, Sweden Hani Hagras, University of Essex, United Kingdom Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Wei-Chiang Hong, Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan Mark Hoogendoorn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Marc-Philippe Huget, LISTIC-ESIA, France Carlos Iglesias, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Francois Jacquenet, University of Saint-�?tienne, France Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras, Greece Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom László �?. Kóczy, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Yves Kodratoff, Université Paris, France Joanna Kolodziej, University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland Boris Kovalerchuk, Imaging Lab at Central Washington University, United States Stan Kurkovsky, Central Connecticut State University, United States Halina Kwasnicka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Honghai Liu, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Stephane Loiseau, LERIA, France Sushil J. Louis, University of Nevada, United States Carlos Lucena, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Bernd Ludwig, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany George Luger, University of New Mexico, United States Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, MIRALab at the University of Geneva, Switzerland Laurent Magnin, University of Montreal, Canada Pierre Maret, LIRIS-INSA, France Tokuro Matsuo, Yamagata University, Japan Ali Minai, University of Cincinnati, United States Guy Mineau, Laval University, France Haris Mouratidis, University of East London, United Kingdom Tomoharu Nakashima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy Stanislaw Osowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology, Spain Krzysztof Patan, University of Zielona Gora, Poland Michal P�?chou�?ek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Paolo Petta, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Thammanit Pipatsrisawat, UCLA, United States Eric Platon, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Agostino Poggi, Universitá degli Studi di Parma, Italy T. Ramayah, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Omar Rana, Cardiff University, United Kingdom Martin �?ehák, ATG, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Marek Reformat, University of Alberta, Canada Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy Daniel Rodríguez, Presbitirian Hospital de la Ave Asfhord, Puerto Rico Pilar Rodriguez, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Juha Röning University of Oulu, Finland Elie Sanchez, University of Méditerranée, France Eugene Santos Jr., Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, United States Jorge Gomez Sanz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Ruhul Sarker, University of New South Wales, Australia Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Candace L. Sidner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Iryna Skrypnyk, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Alexander Smirnov, Boston University, United States Kostas Stathis, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, Ireland Chun-Yi Su Concordia University, Canada Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, United States Gion K. Svedberg, �?rebro University, Sweden Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia Franco Turini, University of Pisa, Italy Brent Venable, University of Padua, Italy José Vidal, University of South Carolina, United States Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy Frank Wang, George Mason University, United States Danny Weyns, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Graham Winstanley, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Ronald R. Yager, Machine Intelligence Insitute, Iona College, United States Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, United Kingdom Jun Zhang, SUN Yat-sen University, China Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP