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------- Deadline Extended -------- ******************************************************** Last CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Logics for Agents and Mobility (LAM'08) http://www.dur.ac.uk/berndt.farwer/lam08 4-8 August 2008 ******************************************************** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 27 MARCH 2008 ******************************************************** organised as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2008 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/), 4 - 15 August, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany Workshop Organisers: Berndt Farwer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Michael Köhler-Bußmeier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Workshop Purpose: Our aim is to bring together active researchers and PhD students in the area of logics and mobile systems, especially in the field of agents and multi-agent systems. Many notions used in the theory of agents are derived from philosophy and linguistics (belief, desire, intention, speech act, etc.), and interdisciplinary discourse has proved fruitful for the advance of this domain. On the other hand, the deployment of large-scale pervasive infrastructures (mobile ad-hoc networks, mobile devices, RFIDs, etc.) is becoming a reality. This raises a number of scientific and technological challenges for the software modelling and programming models for such large-scale, open and highly-dynamic distributed systems. The agent and multi-agent systems approach seems particularly adapted to tackle this challenge, but there are many issues remaining to be investigated. For instance, the agents must be location-aware since the actual services available to them may depend on their (physical or virtual) location. The quality and quantity of resources at their disposal is also largely fluctuant, and the agents must be able to adapt to such highly dynamic environments. Moreover, mobility itself raises a large number of difficult issues related to safety and security, which require the ability to reason about the software (e.g. for analysis or verification). The logics and type systems with temporal or other kinds of modalities (relating to location, resource and/or security- awareness) play a central role in the semantic characterisation and then verification of properties about mobile agent systems. There are still many open problems and research questions in the theory of such systems. The workshop is intended to showcase results and current work being undertaken in these areas. Workshop Topics: - logics for specification and reasoning about agents, MAS, and mobile systems in a broader sense - the aspects of location and resource in logics - security in ad-hoc networks - temporal logics and model checking - type systems and static analysis - logic programming. Submission details: Authors are invited to submit a full paper of original work in the areas mentioned above. Submissions should not exceed 15 pages, preferably using the LaTeX article class and A4 paper. The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS. Please send your submission electronically to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by the deadline listed below. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. Workshop format: The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the first week of ESSLLI. There will be 2 to 3 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organisers will give an introduction to the topic to familiarise the audience with the topic. Invited Speakers: Didier Galmiche (Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1, France) Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, UK) Programme Committee: Berndt Farwer (chair), Durham, UK Michael Köhler (local chair), Hamburg, Germany Thomas Agotnes, Bergen, Norway Matteo Baldoni, Torino, Italy Rafael Bordini, Durham, UK Louise Dennis, Liverpool, UK Marina De Vos, Bath, UK Michael Fisher, Liverpool, UK James Harland, Melbourne, Australia Andreas Herzig, Toulouse, France Koen Hindriks, Delft, Netherlands Wojtek Jamroga, Clausthal, Germany João Leite, Lisbon, Portugal Dale Miller, INRIA, France Frederic Peschanski, Paris, France Wamberto Vasconcelos, Aberdeen, UK Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 27 March 2008 Notification: 27 April 2008 Preliminary programme: 1 May 2008 ESSLLI early registration: 1 May 2008 Final papers for proceedings: 17 May 2008 Final programme: 21 June 2008 Workshop dates: 4-8 August 2008 Local Arrangements: All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Further Information: About the workshop: http://www.dur.ac.uk/berndt.farwer/lam08 About ESSLLI: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/