11-12 May 2009
Budapest, Hungary
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7th International Workshop on
Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2009)
11 or 12 May 2009
Budapest, Hungary
(held in conjunction with AAMAS 2009)
URL: http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni/DALT-2009/
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
(DALT), in its seventh edition this year, is a well-established
forum for researchers interested in sharing their experiences in
combining declarative and formal approaches with engineering and
technology aspects of agents and multiagent systems. Building
complex agent systems calls for models and technologies that en-
sure predictability, allow for the verification of properties,
and guarantee flexibility. Developing technologies that can sat-
isfy these requirements still poses an important and difficult
challenge. Here, declarative approaches have the potential of of-
fering solutions satisfying the needs for both specifying and de-
veloping multiagent systems. Moreover, they are gaining more and
more attention in important application areas such as the seman-
tic web, service-oriented computing, security, and electronic
contracting. For instance, some convergence points between the
areas of formal methods for dealing with web services and formal
methods for agents are emerging and gaining more and more atten-
tion.
DALT 2009 will be held as a satellite workshop of AAMAS 2009, the
8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Mul-
tiagent Systems, in May 2009 in Budapest, Hungary. Following the
success of six previous editions, DALT will again aim at provid-
ing a discussion forum to both (i) support the transfer of
declarative paradigms and techniques to the broader community of
agent researchers and practitioners, and (ii) to bring the issue
of designing complex agent systems to the attention of re-
searchers working on declarative languages and technologies.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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DALT topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
General themes:
* specification of agents and multiagent systems
* declarative approaches to engineering agent systems
Formal techniques:
* (constraint) logic programming approaches to agent systems
* distributed constraint satisfaction
* modal and epistemic logics for agent modelling
* verification of agents and multiagent systems
* formal semantics for agent programming languages and frameworks
Declarative models:
* declarative models of agent beliefs, goals and capabilities
* declarative models of bounded rationality
* declarative paradigms for the combination of heterogeneous
agents
* declarative approaches to organizations and electronic
institutions
* agent-inspired declarative approaches to web services or
service-oriented architectures
Applications of declarative techniques to:
* agents and the semantic web
* service-oriented multiagent systems
* agent communication and coordination languages
* protocol specification and conformance checking
* description of contracts and negotiation policies
* security and trust in multiagent systems
Evaluation of declarative approaches:
* experimental analysis of declarative agent technologies
* industrial experiences with declarative agent technologies
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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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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 the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed 16
pages. Paper submission is electronic via the conference website.
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WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
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Printed copies of the proceedings will be available at the
workshop. Assuming a sufficient number of high-quality
submissions, we are again going to consider the publication of
formal post-proceedings with an international publisher. The
post-proceedings of DALT 2003 (LNAI 2990), DALT 2004 (LNAI 3476),
DALT 2005 (LNAI 3904), DALT 2006 (LNAI 4327), DALT 2007 (LNAI
4897), and DALT 2008 (LNAI 5397) have been or will be published
by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelli-
gence series.
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IMPORTANT DATES (tentative!)
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Submission Deadline: 25 January 2009
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 25 February 2009
Camera Ready Due: 5 March 2009
Workshop: 11 or 12 May 2009
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be completed)
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Thomas Agotnes (Bergen University College, Norway)
Marco Alberti (University of Ferrara, Italy)
Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham, UK)
Cristina Baroglio (University of Torino, Italy)
Rafael Bordini (University of Durham, UK)
Jan Broersen (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Federico Chesani (University of Bologna, Italy)
Amit Chopra (North Carolina State University, USA)
Keith Clark (Imperial College London, UK)
James Harland (RMIT University, Australia)
Andreas Herzig (Paul Sabatier University, France)
Shinichi Honiden (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Yves Lesperance (York University, Canada)
Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, UK)
Viviana Mascardi (University of Genova, Italy)
Nicolas Maudet (University of Paris-Dauphine, France)
John-Jules Meyer (University of Utrecht, NL)
Peter Novak (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University, USA)
Chiaki Sakama (Wakayama University, Japan)
Guillermo Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina)
Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State University, USA)
Eugenia Ternovska (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Marina De Vos (University of Bath, UK)
Michael Winikoff (RMIT University, Australia)
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino, Italy)
Jamal Bentahar (Concordia University, Canada)
John Lloyd (Australian National University, Australia)
M. Birna van Riemsdijk (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
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STEERING COMMITTEE
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Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino, Italy)
Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna-Cesena, Italy)
M. Birna van Riemsdijk (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State University, USA)
Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna, Italy)
Pinar Yolum (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand)
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