4-5 June 2012
Valencia, Spain
10th International Workshop on
Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
(DALT 2012)
4 or 5 June 2012 (to be confirmed)
Valencia, Spain
(held in conjunction with AAMAS 2012)
URL: http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni/DALT-2012/
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT),
in its tenth 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 ensure predictability,
allow for the verification of properties, and guarantee flexibility.
Developing technologies that can satisfy these requirements still
poses an important and difficult challenge. Here, declarative
approaches have the potential of offering solutions satisfying the
needs for both specifying and developing multiagent systems.
Moreover, they are gaining more and more attention in important
application areas such as the semantic web, service-oriented
computing, security, and electronic contracting.
DALT 2012 will be held as a satellite workshop of AAMAS 2012, the 11th
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems, in June 2011 in Valencia, Spain. Following the success of
nine previous editions, DALT will again aim at providing 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 researchers working on declarative
languages and technologies.
DALT 2012 will have as a special interest topics those future trends of
the web, where declarative languages and technologies for multiagents
systems will play an effective role: in particular, social computing
(models of social interactions, trust, commitments, and contracts;
social environments based on declarative technologies) and its related
semantic issues (explicit representation of knowledge and mechanisms for
allowing societies of agents to reason on that).
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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DALT topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
DALT 2012 special topic: declarative approaches for agent-based social
computing
* models of social interactions among agents
* models of buiness interactions among agents
* models of trust, commitments, and reputation for agents
* declarative description of contracts and negotiation policies
* social environments based on declarative technologies
* Semantic Web-aware declarative agents
General themes:
* specification of agents and multi-agent systems
* declarative approaches to engineering agent-based systems
Formal techniques:
* (constraint) logic programming approaches to agent systems
* distributed constraint satisfaction
* modal and epistemic logics for agent modeling
* game theory and mechanism design for multi-agent systems
* semantics of agent communication
* model checking agents and multi-agent systems
* agent communication and coordination languages
* protocol specification, verification, and reasoning
Declarative models:
* declarative models of agent beliefs, goals and capabilities
* declarative models of bounded rationality
* declarative approaches for agent-based grid computing
* declarative paradigms for the combination of heterogeneous agents
* declarative approaches to organizations and electronic institutions
* agent-inspired declarative approaches to Web services and
service-oriented computing
Applications of declarative techniques to:
* multi-agent systems for service-oriented computing
* agent-based grid computing
* security and trust in multi-agent systems
* e-health, e-commerce, e-learning, sociotechnical systems, social
networks, virtual organizations.
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), DALT 2008 (LNAI 5397), DALT 2009
(LNAI 5948), and DALT 2010 (LNAI 6619) have been published by
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: 28 February 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 27 March 2012
Camera-ready copies due: 10 April 2012
Workshop Date: 4 or 5 June 2012
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WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
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Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino, Italy)
Louise Dennis (University of Liverpool, UK)
Viviana Mascardi (University of Genova, Italy)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)