7-11 Sep 2009
------------------------------------------------------------ FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ Formal Approaches to Multi-Agent Systems (FAMAS'09) Torino, Italy, two days in the week of 7-11 September 2009 http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/MAS/FAMAS2009/ Part of MALLOW 2009, Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops, 7-11 September 2009 http://agents009.di.unito.it/MALLOW.html ***MALLOW decided for deadline extensions. Extended FAMAS deadline: Wednesday 17 June*** -------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- Description of FAMAS ----------------------------- In recent years, multi-agent systems have come to form one of the key technologies for software development. The fourth edition of the FAMAS workshop series, after the success of FAMAS'03 affiliated with ETAPS03 in Warsaw, FAMAS'06 affiliated with ECAI'06 in Riva del Garda, and FAMAS'007 as part of MALLOW'007 in Durham, aims at bringing together researchers from the fields of logic, theoretical computer science and multi-agent systems in order to discuss formal techniques for specifying and verifying multi-agent systems. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest for the workshop are: *logics for multi-agent systems *formal methods for verification of multi-agent systems *formal models of teamwork *formal approaches to communication, coordination and negotiation *logical analysis of games *computational social choice *logical approaches to protocols ensuring privacy and security *approximate reasoning in a multi-agent environment ----------------------------- Submission instructions ----------------------------- We welcome and encourage the submission of high-quality, original papers, which are not being submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to IEEEtran style file for papers, and should not exceed the limit of 8 pages (two-column style). You can find styles for LaTeX, BibTeX and documentations at the following address: http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/ Please send your paper in PDF to both rineke@ai.rug.nl and keplicz@mimuw.edu.pl. ***Extended deadline: Wednesday 17 June, 2009*** --------------- Proceedings --------------- Informal workshop proceedings will be available at the workshop. A special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae, namely vol. 63 (2-3), 2004, collected new versions of the best papers of FAMAS'03. A special issue of JAAMAS recently appeared with new versions of the best papers of FAMAS'06, namely volume 19 (1), 2009, see http:// www.springerlink.com/content/m46t38n03854/? p=e8370e8af9314317aca917442c589904&pi=0 For the 2009 edition (as for FAMAS007), authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a special issue of the Logical Journal of the IGPL. Further details will be announced at FAMAS'09. ---------------- Venue ---------------- The workshop will be part of MALLOW 2009, hosted by the Universita degli Studi di Torino. Participants of FAMAS are very welcome to join the co-located workshops. For more details of the MALLOW location, please see http://agents009.di.unito.it/location.html MALLOW 2009 is preceded by this year's edition of the European Agent Systems Summer School, taking place 31 August- 4 September 2009, also in Turin, see http://agents009.di.unito.it/EASSS.html After MALLOW, IAT'09 will take place in Milan on 15-18 September, see http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/IAT09/IAThome.htm -------------------- Invited speakers -------------------- Joint invited lectures of MALLOW 2009 will be announced later. ------------------------ Program committee ------------------------ Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Warsaw University and Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland (chair) Rineke Verbrugge, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (chair) Hans van Ditmarsch, University of Aberdeen, UK Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, University of Paris 6, France Andreas Herzig, Universite Paul Sabatier, France Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool , UK Wojtek Jamroga, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Wojciech Penczek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK Jeff Rosenschein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Onn Shehory, IBM - Haifa Research Labs, Israel Carles Sierra, IIIA, Spanish Research Council, Spain Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw, Poland, and Linkping University, Sweden -------------------------- Workshop organizers -------------------------- Barbara Dunin-Keplicz - keplicz@mimuw.edu.pl Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University and Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~keplicz/ Rineke Verbrugge - rineke@ai.rug.nl Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen http://www.ai.rug.nl/~rineke ---------------------------------- MALLOW 2009 organizers ---------------------------------- Cristina Baroglio, Universita di Torino, Italy Matteo Baldoni, Universita di Torino, Italy Guido Boella, Universita di Torino, Italy