1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars (4A'18)
Poznañ, Poland, September, 9-12, 2018
https://fedcsis.org/2018/4a
The field of, broadly understood, agent technology is undergoing rapid changes.
What was once envisioned, primarily, in research papers becomes reality. Over
last few years we observe proliferation of personal assistants and avatars
(sometimes considered under a joint umbrella of ChatBots). For instance,
consider Siri, Cortana, Amazon Echo, or Google Assistant (to name the most
popular). They can help in different activities, but a lot of work remains
before they reach full potential. Furthermore, actors start to materialize in
real-world applications as a promising approach to implement large-scale
distributed systems. It is also worthy noticing that avatars, humans and smart
things can cooperate as a community that instantiates, contributes to and
exploits various aspects of collective intelligence. Here, observe that agents
can play very relevant role in the context of implementing, for example,
intelligence of smart devices, which interact with each other and with humans,
by common communication channels and, possibly even, social networks. At the
same time, software tools that can be used to realize 4A systems have reached
maturity and are surrounded by active user communities.
TOPICS
To recognize the current trends we have decided to develop a new workshop that
will cover all aspects concerning the 4As. Therefore, we welcome submissions
of original papers concerning the following topics (the list is not exhaustive
and deliberately provided on a meta-level):
Actors, as an approach to design and (efficiently) implement distributed
systems
Current perspectives on software agents and multi-agent systems
Design and implementation of assistants
ChatBot design, implementation and use
Avatars for today and tomorrow
Theoretical foundations of 4A-based systems
4A-based simulations (with application to real-world use cases, in particular)
Case studies, applications and experiences with 4As (in real-world, in
particular)
DEMO-SESSION
A special session devoted to demonstration of working prototypes is planned.
Special recognition for the best demo will be given.
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF or MSWord file).
The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including
tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here.
Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit
and relevance to the workshop.
Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick
provided to the FedCSIS participants.
Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference
Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database.
Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI
numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for
indexation in: Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index,
SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
and Google Scholar
Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be
invited to the Special Issue of
* Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience
* Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (fee waiver is expected)
* Multiagent and Grid Systems
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Agotnes, Thomas, University of Bergen, Norway
Ambroszkiewicz, Stanislaw, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of
Sciences, Poland
Barseghyan, Artak, Yerevan, Armenia
Braubach, Lars, University of Hamburg, Germany
Budimac, Zoran, Faculty of Sciences, Univ. of Novi Sad, Serbia
Byrski, Aleksander, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Cabri, Giacomo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Di Napoli, Claudia, CNR ICAR, Italy
Fernández, Alberto, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Florea, Adina, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania
Jedrzejowicz, Piotr, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Jezic, Gordan, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Kaleta, Mariusz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Kruczkiewicz, Zofia, Wroc³aw University of Technology, Poland
Kusek, Mario, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Computing, Croatia
Leszczyna, Rafal, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Letia, Ioan Alfred, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Morge, Maxime, Université de Lille, France
Negru, Viorel, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Neruda, Roman, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the
Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Ngoc-Thanh, Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Niazi, Muaz, COSMOSE Research Group, COMSATS Institute of IT, Pakistan
Oliveira, Eugenio, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
Omicini, Andrea, Alma Mater StudiorumUniversit? di Bologna, Italy
Oren, Nir, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Ouedraogo, Moussa, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Paik, Incheon, University of Aizu, Japan
Poggi, Agostino, DII - University of Parma, Italy
Pokahr, Alexander, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr
Hamburg, Germany
Rahimi, Shahram, Southern Illinois University, United States
Rimassa, Giovanni, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland
Rykowski, Jarogniew, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Sakellariou, Ilias, University of Macedonia, Greece
Santoro, Corrado, University of Catania, Italy
Schaefer, Robert, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Senatore, Sabrina, DIEM University of Salerno, Italy
Tang, Yuqing, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Thimm, Matthias, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Venticinque, Salvatore, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy
Vouros, George, University of Piraeus, Greece
Wahjudi, Paulus, Marshall Unviersity, United States
EVENT CHAIRS
Badica, Costin, University of Craiova, Romania
Ganzha, Maria, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Ivanoviæ, Mirjana, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Paprzycki, Marcin, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences,
Poland
Unland, Rainer, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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| Prof. Giacomo Cabri - Ph.D., Full Professor
| Dip. di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche
| Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia
| e-mail giacomo.ca...@unimore.it
| tel. +39-059-2058320 fax +39-059-2055216
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