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CALL FOR PAPERS
SIMULTECH 2014 Special Session on Agent-Directed Simulation (ADS'14)
Vienna, Austria
August 28-30, 2014
http://www.simultech.org/ADS_specialsession.aspx
Manuscript Submission: June 23, 2014.
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In conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Simulation and
Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - SIMULTECH 2014,
http://www.simultech.org/
the special session on Agent-Directed Simulation (ADS'14) is a premier
platform to explore all three aspects of the synergy of simulation and
agent technologies. Hence, it has a special place within simulation and
agent conferences, including agent-based (social) simulation conferences.
Therefore ADS fills a gap in the agent community as well as
the simulation community.
The purpose of the ADS special session is to facilitate dissemination of
the most recent advancements in the theory, methodology, application, and
toolkits of agent-directed simulation. Agent-directed simulation is
comprehensive in the integration of agent and simulation technologies,
by including models that use agents to develop domain-specific
simulations, i.e., agent simulation (this is often referred to as
agent-based simulation -when other two important aspects are not
considered), and by also including the use of agent technology to
develop simulation techniques and toolkits that are subsequently
applied, either with or without agents.
Hence, agent-directed simulation consists of three distinct, yet
related areas that can be grouped under two categories as follows:
1. Simulation for Agents (agent simulation): simulation of agent
systems in engineering, human and social dynamics, military
applications etc.
2. Agents for Simulation (which has two aspects): agent-supported
simulation deals with the use of agents as a support facility to
enable computer assistance in problem solving or enhancing
cognitive capabilities; and agent-based simulation that focuses
on the use of agents for the generation of model behavior in a
simulation study.
Through the theme of agent-directed simulation, the special session will
bring together agent technologies, tools, toolkits, platforms,
languages, methodologies, and applications in a pragmatic manner. In
this special session, established researchers, educators, and students
are encouraged to come together and discuss the benefits of agent
technology in their use and application for simulation. It is a way
for people to discuss why and how they have used agent technology in
their simulations, and describe the benefit of having done so.
The theme of ADS'14 is based on the observation of the following
premises.
* The growth of new advanced distributed computing standards along
with the rapid rise of e-commerce are providing a new context that
acts as a critical driver for the development of next generation
systems. These standards revolve around service-oriented
technologies, pervasive computing, web-services, Grid, autonomic
computing, ambient intelligence etc. The supporting role that
intelligent agents play in the development of such systems is
becoming pervasive, and simulation plays a critical role in the
analysis and design of such systems.
* The use of emergent agent technologies at the organization,
interaction (e.g., coordination, negotiation, communication) and
agent levels (i.e. reasoning, autonomy) are expected to advance
the state of the art in various application technologies is
difficult. Using agent-supported simulation techniques for
testing complex agent systems is up and coming field.
* To facilitate bridging the gap between research and application,
there is a need for tools, agent programming languages, and
methodologies to analyze, design, and implement complex,
non-trivial agent-based simulations. Existing agent-based
simulation tools are still not mature enough to enable developing
agents with varying degrees cognitive and reasoning capabilities.
ADS'14 will provide a leading forum to bring together researchers and
practitioners from diverse simulation societies within computer science,
social sciences, engineering, business, education, human factors, and
systems engineering. The involvement of various agent-directed
simulation groups will enable the cross-fertilization of ideas and
development of new perspectives by fostering novel advanced solutions,
as well as enabling technologies for agent-directed simulation
KEY DATES
Paper Submission: June 23, 2014
Authors Notification: July 7, 2014
Camera Ready and Registration: July 15, 2014
PAPER SUBMISSION
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats)
are available at:
http://www.simultech.org/GuidelinesTemplates.aspx
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission
system at:
http://www.insticc.org/Primoris
PUBLICATIONS
All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the
conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM
support - and submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference
Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and
Scopus.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
Special Session Co-Chairs
Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University
Tuncer Oren, University of Ottawa
Publicity Chair
Yu Zhang, St. John's University
Special Session Program Committee
Fernando Barros, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Paul Davis, RAND and RAND Graduate School, USA
Julie Dugdale, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
Bernard Espinasse, Universit d'Aix-Marseille, France
Claudia Frydman, LSIS, France
Norbert Giambiasi, LSIS, France
Xiaolin Hu, Georgia State University, USA
C. Anthony Hunt, UCSF, USA
Andras Jvor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Glen Ropella, UCSF, USA
Charles Santoni, LSIS, France
Hessam Sarjoughian, Arizona State University, USA
Andreas Tolk, Old Dominion University, USA
Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada
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