AIMS 2005

CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Track on Agents, Interactions, Mobility, and Systems (AIMS)
to take place during
The 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005)

March 13 - 17, 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2005

SAC’05

For the past nineteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2005 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, and is hosted by New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, USA.

Special Track on Agents, Interactions, Mobility, and Systems

An agent is a computational entity that interacts with one or more counterparts or real-world systems. Unlike traditional computer programs, agents exhibit the following capabilities to various degrees: (a) autonomy, (b) reactiveness, (c) pro-activeness, and (d) social abilities. An agent may be static or mobile. In the latter case it is able to agent migrate along with its associated data, state, and logic to another host to interact with local resources and other agents to perform a given task. Several agents can collectively form a multi-agent system with decentralized data and a varying degree of global system control (potentially none at all). In this track we are interested in the combined issues of agent-based and multi-agent systems.

Areas of interest

We are interested in the following topic areas (although this list should not be treated as exclusive):

niche applications such as e-commerce, mobile business applications, robotics, defense, manufacturing, and aerospace
system architectures and software engineering
languages and protocols for communication and coordination
mobile agent systems security, fault tolerance and reliability
programming language paradigms and constructs for design, implementation, and evaluation
agents that use game theory and decision theory
practical application of autonomy, delegation, and control in multiagent systems
applications that demonstrate systematic inter-agent interaction including issues of sociability, benevolence, preference, power, trust, teaming, norms, roles, teamwork, etc.
applications that benefit from features unique to mobile agents
applications that provide quantitative measurements of mobile agent performance
requirements for applications that are currently not satisfied by mobile agent systems
designing applications and systems to support interfacing with agent systems and mobile agents
integrating mobile agents with existing legacy systems
overlapping areas between agents and grid computing
overlapping areas between agents and web services

It should be stressed that this track appears in the context of the conference devoted to applied computing. Thus, submissions to this track should address actual and potential applications.

**Track Program Chairs**
Henry Hexmoor	hexmoor@uark.edu	University of Arkansas
Marcin Paprzycki	marcin@cs.okstate.edu	Oklahoma State University
Niranjan Suri	nsuri@ai.uwf.edu	IHMC / University of West Florida

**Program Committee**
Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz	Polish Academy of Science
Mark Baker	University of Portsmouth
Walter Binder	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw	IHMC / University of West Florida
Sviatoslav Braynov	SUNY Buffalo
Giacomo Cabri	Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Monique Calisti	Whitestein Technologies
Marco Carvalho	IHMC / University of West Florida
Dario Alvarez Gutierrez	University of Oviedo
Michael Luck	University of Southampton
Robert Marcus	SRI International
Juan Pavon Mestras	Universidad Complutense Madrid
Luc Moreau	University of Southampton
Gregory O’Hare	University College Dublin
Benno Overeinder	Vrije Universiteit
Gian Pietro Picco	Politecnico di Milano
David Pynadath	USC/ISI
Shahram Rahimi	Southern Illinois University
Omer Rana	University of Cardiff
Volker Roth	Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
George Samaras	University of Cyprus
Ichiro Satoh	National Institute of Informatics
Von-Wun Soo	National Tsing-Hwa University
Cesare Stefanelli	University of Ferrara
David Wong	Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab
Arkady Zaslavsky	Monash University

Track Web Site

Most recent information about this track may be found at the AIMS 2005 web site at http://aims2005.ihmc.us.

Submission Guidelines

Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. This includes three categories of submissions: 1) original and unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry; and 3) reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM SAC’04 proceedings. Submission guidelines must be strictly followed.

Papers that are not accepted as full papers may be accepted as short poster papers.

Submit your paper electronically at http://aims2005.ihmc.us/html. Papers must be submitted electronically in either PDF (preferred) or postscript format.

The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review.

The body of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words (approximately 15 pages, double-spaced). A separate cover sheet (in the case of electronic submission this should be sent separately from the main paper) should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and FAX) to which correspondence should be sent.

Important Dates

September 3, 2004: Submission of papers

October 15, 2004: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection

November 5, 2004: Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers

Mar 13-17, 2005:SAC 2005 takes place