First International Workshop on
Agent-Based Social Simulation and Autonomic Systems
(ABSS@Autonomics 2009)

to be held at
Autonomics 2009
Third International ICST Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems

9th-11th September
Limassol, Cyprus

CALL FOR PAPERS

The ABSS@Autonomic Systems - Agent Based Social Simulation at Autonomic Systems workshop - aims to promote collaboration between the fields of agent-based social simulation (ABSS) and the field of Autonomic Systems, bringing together researchers from both fields and community.
The focus of Autonomic systems is on the management of pervasive, context-aware services offered by the large amount of electronic devices embedded into everyday objects and interfacing with the surrounding environment, whose complex connections call for self-management and autonomicity as a necessary condition for obtaining purposeful systems; while the focus of ABSS is on simulating social behaviors in order to understand real social systems (human, animal and even electronic) in a generative and theory-based way.


We aim to address the following areas (not limited):

(1) General issues
- Agency and Autonomy
- Simulation environment modeling
- Standards for simulators
- Self-organization
- Scalability
- Robustness
- Methodologies and techniques that link ABSS and Autonomic Systems

(2) Autonomics issues
- Theoretical foundations of autonomic systems
- Agent simulation of embedded electronic devices
- Agent simulation of technology innovation
- Pervasive and autonomic computing and its innovation
- Management and understanding of complex systems
- Autonomous self-management of dynamic large-scale networks and services
- Privacy, security, dynamic trust and social issues
- Resource, network and service (self) management
- Enabling technologies for pervasive environments

(3) ABSS issues
- Formal and agent-based models of social behavior and social order
- Reputation, gossip, uncertainty and trust; - Social structures and norms
- Cognitive modeling and social simulation
- The emergence of cooperation and coordinated action
- Agent-based experimental economics
- simulation of web 2.0 and collaborative filtering

IMPORTANT DATES

PUBLICATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 16 pages in LNCS conference proceedings format through easychair

The proceedings will be a Springer Verlang publication and the papers will be reviewed by several indexing servicing including DBLP, ZBlMath/CompuServe, IO-Port, EI, Scopus, INSPEC, ISI Proceedings, the Zentralblatt Math and Google Scholar.
Selected best papers from Autonomics 2009 will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communication Systems (IJAACS).

REVIEW PROCESS

All submissions would go through a peer review process, with at least three independent PC members reviewing each submission. Only those deemed to be

1) relevant to the workshop's aims,
2) presenting original work, and
3) of good quality and clarity

would be accepted. Following the workshop, participants will be required to revise their papers which will undergo a second review process before publication in the post-proceedings.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Mario Paolucci
Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology (ISTC-CNR)
National Research Council
Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185 Roma
Tel. +39 06 4459 5321, Fax +39 06 4459 5243
E-mail: mario.paolucci -at- istc.cnr.it

Isaac Pinyol
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA - CSIC)
Spanish National Research Council
Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra, Spain
Tel. +34 93 580 9570, Fax +34 93 580 9661
Email: ipinyol -at- iiia.csic.es

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Frederic Amblard (Universite Toulouse 1, France)
- Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
- Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
- Federico Cecconi (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
- Helder Coelho (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
- Rosaria Conte (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
- Gennaro Di Tosto (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
- Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, UK)
- Boi Faltings (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausane, Switzerland
- Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK)
- Wander Jager (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
- Marco Janssen (Arizona State University, USA)
- David Hales (University of Bologna, Italy)
- Jean-Pierre Muller (CIRAD, France)
- Pablo Noriega (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
- Emma Norling (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
- Oswaldo Terán (University of Los Andes, Venezuela)
- Mario Paolucci (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
- Juan Pavon Mestras (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain)
- Isaac Pinyol (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
- Walter Quattrociocchi (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
- Jordi Sabater-Mir (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
- Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- Carles Sierra (IIIA, Spain)
- Liz Sonenberg (University Melbourne, Australia)
- Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia, Italy)
- Keiki Takadama (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
- Klaus Troitzsch (University of Koblenz, Germany)
- Paolo Turrini (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
- Laurent Vercouter (École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France)
- Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM (September 10, 2009)

13:30-15:00 Session 1

"Consequences of Social and Institutional Setups for Occurrence Reporting in Air Traffic Organizations"
Alexei Sharpanskykh

"Can Space Applications Benefit from Intelligent Agents?"
Blesson Varghese, Gerard McKee

"A Generic Agent Organisation Framework For Autonomic Systems"
Ramachandra Kota, Nicholas Gibbins, Nicholas Jennings

15:00-15:30 Break

15:30-17:00 Session 2

"Metareasoning and Social Evaluations in Cognitive Agents"
Isaac Pinyol, Jordi Sabater-Mir

"Experiments on the Acquisition of the Semantics and Grammatical Constructions Required for Communicating Propositional Logic Sentences"
Josefina Sierra, Josefina Santibanez

"An Autonomic Computing Architecture for Self-* Web Services"
Walid Chainbi, Haithem Mezni, Khaled Ghedira