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Hybrid Reasoning and Coordination Methods for Adaptive MAS

Over the last years, adaptive multi-agent systems have been successfully applied to manage complex distributed processes in a wide range of application domains. Agents organizations with autonomy capabilities seems a suitable technology to cope with the development of this type of systems. These capabilities allow agents to have a dynamic response in view of potential changing situations by means of the adaptation or evolution of the organization. In this way, the organization will be able to detect situations of interest (e.g. operation errors) and to manage them maximising the adaptation flexibility and capacity. The organization adaptation implies, among other aspects, its norms, agreements, commitments and topological structure.

In adaptive multi-agent systems, agents must reason autonomously and coordinate their activities with other agents of the system to fulfil their objectives with the difficulty that the system is continuously changing. This opens a new area of research that paves the way for investigating in theories, models, mechanisms, methods and tools to develop systems with re-organization capabilities that provide them with the ability to adapt themselves to environmental and functional changes.

The methods applied are very varied and the synergies with different areas of the Artificial Intelligence and other sciences have given rise to excellent results. This special session is aimed at discussing research on HAIS to develop reasoning and coordination methods in adaptive multi-agent systems. Both theoretical and practical approaches in the area are welcomed. research topics are welcome:

  1. Practical reasoning methods.
  2. Adaptive MAS.
  3. Case-Based Reasoning.
  4. Normative MAS.
  5. Trust and reputation.
  6. Cooperation, teamwork and coalition formation.
  7. Distributed problem solving and Grid computing.
  8. Electronic markets and institutions.
  9. Game theory methods.
  10. Social choice theory, voting protocols.
  11. Argumentation, negotiation and bargaining.
  12. Agreements technologies.
  13. Adaptive Applications in: security, prediction, control, robotics, image and speech signal processing, bioinformatics, e-learning, biology and medicine, business and management, knowledge management, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food industry, geographic information systems, materials and environment engineering, etc.
  • Contributions
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    Original contributions are sought in the area of the topics covered by this special session. All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality and clarity. Every submitted paper to HAIS´12 will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee.

    HAIS'12 proceedings (including special sessions) will be published by Springer in its series of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence - LNAI (part of its prestigious Lecture Notes in Computer Science - LNCS). Papers must be prepared according to the LNCS-LNAI style template and must contain 12 pages long, including figures and bibliography. Additional pages (over 12 pages) will be charged at 100 Euro each.

    NOTICE: All papers for HAIS'12 must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using http://www.gicap.ubu.es:8080/vic/conference/hais12 and must be prepared according to the (Springer LNCS style template ).

    Extended and improved versions of selected papers of HAIS (including AMAS special session) will be included in a special issue of:

    1. Neurocomputing
    2. Applied Soft Computing
  • Important Dates
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      Deadline for papers: 10th November, 2011 (Extended)
      Notification of provisional acceptance: 9th December, 2011
      Deadline for camera-ready papers: 9th January, 2012
      Early registration (special rates): 9th January, 2012
      Attendants to the conference must register before this date to get special rates. At least one person must register per paper; otherwise that paper will not be included in the conference proceedings (LNCS, Springer Verlag)
      HAIS 2012 Conference: March 28th-30th, 2012
  • Co-Chairs
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    1. Vicente J. Julián, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
    2. Stella Heras, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
    3. Martí Navarro, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
  • Organizing Committee
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    1. Juan Miguel Alberola (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
    2. Luís Búrdalo (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
    3. Natalia Criado (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
    4. Javier Palanca (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
    5. Victor Sanchez (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
    6. Elena del Val. (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
  • Program Committee (Tentative)
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    1. Javier Bajo (Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca)
    2. Juan Botía (Universidad de Murcia)
    3. Vicente Botti (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
    4. Carlos Chesñevar (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina)
    5. Juan Manuel Corchado (Universidad de Salamanca)
    6. Marc Esteva (IIIA-CSIC)
    7. Alberto Fernández (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
    8. Rubén Fuentes (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
    9. Adriana Giret (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
    10. Jorge Gómez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
    11. Jose Manuel Molina (Universidad Carlos III)
    12. Paulo Novais (Universidade do Minho)
    13. Rubén Ortiz (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)

  • Contact information
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    Dr. Martí Navarro
    E-mail: mnavarro@dsic.upv.es