Last update: 1/10/2009

SPECIAL SESSIONS

PAAMS'10 Special Sessions will be a very useful tool in order to complement the regular program with new or emerging topics of particular interest to the participating community. Special Sessions that emphasize on multi-disciplinary and transversal aspects, as well as cutting-edge topics are especially encouraged and welcome.

CONFIRMED SPECIAL SESSIONS

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

In order to submit a paper to a special session you must register as an author at PAAMS 2010 workshops and special sessions management system http://paams.usal.es/conftoolIWPAAMS10ws.

All papers must be formatted according to the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing Series Springer template Advances in Soft Computing Series , with a maximum length of 8 pages in length, including figures and references. The template can be downloaded Here. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page . Instructions to use the online submission system can be found here .

Instructions to upload a contribution for special sessions can be found here

Prospective organizers of special sessions should submit proposals indicating:

DATES

SPECIAL SESSIONS CONTACTS

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SS1-AMAS
Special Session on Adaptive Multiagent Systems

Description

This special session is aimed at discussing research to develop adaption methods on MAS. These methods provide agents with autonomy capabilities that allow them to have a dynamic response in view of potential changing situations by means of the adaptation or evolution of their organizations. The MAS adaptation implies, among other aspects, to adapt its norms, agreements, commitments and topologic structure. Both theoretical and practical approaches in the area are welcomed.

Organizers

• Stella Heras, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
• Vicente Julián, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
• Martí Navarro, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)

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SS2-MAS Special Session on Multiagent Systems for Health Care and Bioinformatics

Description

This session is aimed at the advances in health care and bioinformatics carried out by the adoption of the Multi-Agent paradigm. Due to the suitability of the MAS technologies to design and implement high distribuited, collaborative and autonomous intelligent systems, this workshop is focused on, but not limited to, new approaches that use MAS to retrieve/store/analyze/visualize biological data; to model biological systems; to extract and integrate medical and/or biological knowledge from the multiple on-line resources, to deliver e-Health; etc.

Organizers

• Fernando Díaz, University of Valladolid (Spain)
• Florentino Fernández-Riverola, University of Vigo (Spain)
• Daniel González-Peña, University of Vigo (Spain)
• Paulo Novais, University of Minho (Portugal)
• Miguel Rocha, University of Minho (Portugal)
• Juan Francisco de Paz, University of Salamanca (Spain)

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SS3-MASAmI Special Session on Multiagent Systems for Ambient Intelligence

Description

The agents have characteristics such as autonomy, reasoning, reactivity, social abilities, pro-activity, etc. which make them appropriate for developing dynamic and distributed systems based on Ambient Intelligence, as they possess the capability of adapting themselves to the users and environmental characteristics. Undoubtedly, the Agents and Multi-Agent Systems represent an interesting alternative that is well worth exploring to try to meet the challenges posed by Ambient Intelligence.

Organizers (Tentative)

• Luis Alonso, University of Salamanca (Spain)
• Dante I. Tapia, University of Salamanca (Spain)
• Oscar García, University of Valladolid (Spain)
• Ricardo S. Alonso, University of Salamanca (Spain)
• Miguel A. Valero, Polytecnic University of Madrid (Spain)
• Diego López de Ipiña, University of Deusto (Spain)
• Juan A. Botía, University of Murcia (Spain)
• Pau Giner, Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain)

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SS4-MASMaSuc Special Session on Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing and Supply Chain

Description

Recently there is a number of researches involved in research on the application of an agent-based systems for production purpose. The aim of following session is to provide a platform for discussion about the new multiagents solutions that might be successfully applied for improvement of manufacturing operations and supply chain management.  There is a number of emerging issues  in this research area with big potential for agents application like: resource allocation, process modelling, production planning, production  scheduling, production control, materials flow planning ect.   Both theoretical and practical approaches in the area are welcome.

Organizers (Tentative)

• Pawel Pawlewski - Poznan University of Technology (Poland)
• Paulina Golinska - Poznan University of Technology (Poland)

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SS5- EAII Special Session on Enteprise Application and Information Integration

Description

Web applications provide a huge amount of information of diverse domains such as books, DVDs or travels. This web information is accessible and delivered mostly in human-oriented formats. Therefore, it is a challenge to automatically process it without incurring unaffordable costs. By means of integration, many business processes might benefit from the information of various web applications.

In this special session, our goal is to gather a collection of papers on topics that are related to integrating web applications into automated business processes. We are seeking for position papers and novel, undeveloped ideas. Papers by students who wish to pursue their PhD in this area will be mostly welcome.

Topics of interest in this special session include but are not restricted to:

• Ontologies
• Agents
• Query answering
• Information extraction
• Web automation
• Data quality
• Integration solutions

Organizers (Tentative)

• Rafael Corchuelo Gil - University of Sevilla (Spain)
• Rafael Z. Frantz - UNIJUI (Brasil)

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SS6- SAKM Special Session on Software Agents in Knowledge Management

Description

Knowledge is one of the most valuable factors in Organizations. In this sense, companies are incorporating different knowledge management systems in their structures. Software agents can notably improve this kind of systems, since can act as recommenders, teachers, assistants or performing a variety of specific tasks: search, information filtering, analysis, etc. This session focuses on papers describing how multi-agent systems can be applied in Knowledge Management systems.

Topics in the scope of the special session are (but not limited to):

• Information/knowledge retrieval
• Information filtering and analysis
• Recommender systems
• Reputation and trust
• Communities of Practice
• Virtual communities
• Information dissemination
• Quality management

Organizers (Tentative)

• Aurora Vizcaino - University of Castilla La Mancha (Spain)
• Javier Portillo - University of Castilla La Mancha (Spain)
• Ricardo Imbert - Politechnical University of Madrid (Spain)
• Alberto Fernandez - University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)

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SS7- BioMAS Special Session on Bio-Inspired and Multi-Agents Systems: Applications to Languages

Description

Multi-agent systems (MAS) share their bio-inspiration with an emerging field in formal language theory called Natural Computing (NC). NC is mainly focused on the computing capabilities of formal devices that abstract some natural complex phenomena. In general, NC (and MAS) offers strong models for representing complex and dynamic real-world environments. We are convinced that a field where those technologies can offer good solutions and alternative frameworks to classic models is in the area of processing natural and formal languages. This is why we propose a special session on bio-inspired and multi-agent systems and their applications to language(s) processing. Some of the better known bio-inspired models proposed in NC are Grammar Systems, Eco-Grammar Systems, Colonies, Membrane Systems, Networks of Evolutionary Processors, Splicing Systems and Evolutionary Systems. These models share their bio-inspiration and expressive power with MAS and other formal devices introduced in earlier times such as Cellular Automata, DNA computing or Genetic Algorithms. The discrete nature of their basic components and the results obtained by most of them, clearly show that they could be of great interest in the processing of natural and formal languages. These models could be considered alternative architectures for building new computers and designing new algorithms. This fact poses us new problems and tasks such as the simulation of the models on von Neumann computers and the proper tools for programming these new computers. However, so far the results have been quite theoretical, and our main goal is to bring together researchers form different areas - mathematics, computers science, computational linguistics - that have the aim to study such devices and also the advantage of applying them to natural/formal language processing.

We are mainly interested (but not only) in the following topics related to multi-agent and other bio-inspired systems and their applications. In general, contributions on these natural computers and on any interaction between them and MAS and natural/ formal languages will be welcome:

• Analysis of natural computers
• Natural language generation
• Environment and context description and management
• Dialogue modeling
• Speech recognition
• Simulations of language evolution
• Semantics and ontologies
• Parsing technologies

Organizers

• Gemma Bel Enguix. GRLMC - Rovira i Virgili University (Spain)
• Alfonso Ortega de la Puente - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)

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