AP2PC'2003: Call for Papers - Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing

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              Second International Workshop on
             Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
                        (AP2PC 2003)

                 http://p2p.ingce.unibo.it/

            held in conjunction with AAMAS 2003
                International Conference on
          Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems

                    Melbourne, Australia
                      July 14-15, 2003


CALL FOR PAPERS
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is attracting enormous media attention,
spurred by the popularity of file sharing systems such as Napster,
Gnutella, and Morpheus. The peers are autonomous, or as some call 
them, first-class citizens.
P2P networks are emerging as a new distributed computing paradigm for
their potential to harness the computing power of the hosts composing 
the network and make their under-utilized resources available to 
others.
This possibility has generated a lot of interest in many industrial
organizations recently, and has resulted in the creation of a P2P
working group for undertaking standardization activities in this area
(<http://www.peer-to-peerwg.org/>).
Although researchers working on distributed computing, multi-agent
systems, databases and networks have been using similar concepts for 
a long time, it is only recently that papers motivated by the current 
P2P paradigm have started appearing in high quality conferences and 
workshops. Research in agent systems in particular appears to be most 
relevant because, since their inception, multi-agent systems have 
always been thought of as networks of peers.
The multi-agent paradigm can thus be superimposed on the P2P
architecture, where agents embody the description of the task
environments, the decision-support capabilities, the collective 
behavior, and the interaction protocols of each peer. The emphasis in 
this context on decentralization, user autonomy, ease and speed of 
growth that gives P2P its advantages, also leads to significant 
potential problems. Most prominent among these problems are
coordination and scalability, which means the ability of an agent to 
make decisions on its own actions in the context of activities of 
other agents, and ability to scale along several dimensions, 
including complexity, heterogeneity of peers, robustness, traffic 
redistribution, and so on. 
It is important to scale up coordination strategies along multiple 
dimensions to enhance their tractability and viability, and thereby 
to widen the application domains. These two problems are common to 
many large-scale applications. Without coordination, agents may be 
wasting their efforts, squander resources and fail to achieve their 
objectives in situations requiring collective effort.
This workshop will bring together researchers working on agent 
systems and P2P computing with the intention of strengthening this 
connection. Researchers from other related areas such as distributed 
systems, networks and database systems will also be welcome (and, in 
our opinion, have a lot to contribute).
We seek high-quality and original contributions on the general theme 
of "Agents and P2P Computing". The following is a non-exhaustive 
list of topics of special interest:

- Intelligent agent techniques for P2P computing
- P2P computing techniques for multi-agent systems
- The Semantic Web, Semantic Coordination Mechanisms and P2P systems
- Scalability, coordination, robustness and adaptability in P2P 
  systems
- Self-organization and emergent behavior in P2P networks
- E-commerce and P2P computing
- Participation and Contract Incentive Mechanisms in P2P Systems
- Computational Models of Trust and Reputation
- Community of interest building and regulation, and behavioral 
  norms
- Intellectual property rights in P2P systems
- P2P architectures
- Scalable Data Structures for P2P systems
- Services in P2P systems (service definition languages, service
  discovery, filtering and composition etc.)
- Knowledge Discovery and P2P Data Mining Agents
- P2P oriented information systems
- Information ecosystems and P2P systems
- Security issues in P2P networks
- ad-hoc networks and pervasive computing based on P2P architectures 
  and wireless communication devices


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline:    7 April 2003
Acceptance notification:     27 May 2003
Workshop:                    14 or 15 July 2003
Camera ready of revised
papers for post-proceedings: 31 August 2003


REGISTRATION
Accomodation and workshop registration will be handled by the AAMAS 
2003 organization along with the main conference registration.


SUBMISSION
Unpublished papers should be submitted electronically by e-mailing
submission-1MuM8gz4j2XYW6CxDGNXxA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx specifying in the message 
body the paper's
author(s), title, contact author and at most 5 keywords/topics.
Submitted papers should be formatted according to the LNCS author
instructions (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)
for proceedings and they should not be longer than 12 pages (about 
5000 words including figures, tables, references, etc.). Only 
postscript or PDF (preferred) formats will be accepted. The papers 
should be attached to the e-mail and named as: 
contactauthorsurname.pdf (.ps).


PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be distributed to the workshop participants as
workshop notes. Post-proceedings of the revised full papers will be
published by an International Publisher (for the first edition of 
the workshop was Springer - Lecture Notes in Computer Science series
vol. no. 2530).


ORGANIZERS

  PANEL CHAIR
  Aris M. Ouksel
  Dept. of Information and Decision Sciences,
  University of Illinois at
  Chicago, USA
  2411 University Hall
  Tel: 312-996-0771 - Fax: 312-413-0385
  E-mail: aris-KQhtac8ZjM8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
  Gianluca Moro
  Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems,
  University of Bologna, Italy
  Via Rasi e Spinelli, 176 - I-47023 Cesena (FC)
  Tel. +39 0547 614560 - Fax: +39 0547 614517
  E-mail: gmoro-POLwrCJ7d1P/JJ79RJBNBA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  Claudio Sartori
  CNR-CSITE, University of Bologna, Italy
  Viale Risorgimento, 2 - I-40136 Bologna (Bo)
  Tel. +39 051 2093554 - Fax. +39 051 2093540
  E-mail: csartori-POLwrCJ7d1P/JJ79RJBNBA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  Munindar P. Singh
  Dept. of Computer Science,
  North Carolina State University, USA
  Venture I, Suite 110 / Box 7535 - Raleigh, NC 27695-7535
  Tel. +1 919 515.5677 - Fax +1 919 515.7896
  E-mail: mpsingh-m0h39xL79c72fBVCVOL8/A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


STEERING COMMITTEE
Karl Aberer, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy
Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Paul Marrow, BTexact Technologies, UK
Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy
Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Claudio Sartori, University of Bologna, Italy
Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Karl Aberer, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy
M. Brian Blake, Georgetown University, USA
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Ooi Beng Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy
Costas Courcoubetis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Yogesh Deshpande, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Boi V. Faltings, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
Chihab Hanachi, University of Toulouse, France 
Mark Klein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany
Yannis Labrou, PowerMarket Inc., USA
Tan Kian Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Dejan Milojicic, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Alberto Montresor, University of Bologna, Italy
Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneve, Switzerland
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy
Maria Orlowska, University of Queensland, Australia
Aris. M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 
Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Terry R. Payne, University of Southampton, UK
Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria,
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, UK
Dimitris Plexousakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece
Martin Purvis, University of Otago, New Zealand
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Katia Sycara, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Douglas S. Reeves, North Carolina State University, USA
Thomas Risse, Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany
Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy
Christophe Silbertin-Blanc, University of Toulouse, France
Maarten van Steen, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia, Australia
Peter Triantafillou, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, USA
Vijay K. Vaishnavi, Georgia State University, USA
Francisco Valverde-Albacete, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Maurizio Vincini, University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy
Fang Wang, BTexact Technologies, UK
Gerhard Weiss, Technische Universitaet, Germany
Bin Yu, North Carolina State University, USA
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