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| In the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2009) to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 8 - 12, 2009 |
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The 2nd Event in the APSLA activities |
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Submission deadline is extended to August 23rd (Midnight, Pacific Time) | ||
IntroductionAPSLA aims at investigating how multi-agent technologies can contribute to the engineering of complex software systems. The inherent distribution of resources and processes, and the frequently changing operational conditions in the requirements of modern systems emphasize the need for decentralized control, and open and adaptive software, where multi-agent technologies provide suitable models and techniques. Also check the previous event to see the aim and directions of APSLA.
TopicsThis second edition of APSLA focuses on two topics of interest identified after the present state of research, the outcomes of the first edition, and related events in the agent community: Theme 1: Engineering Self-Adaptive SystemsThis theme focuses on adaptive systems. Agent technologies are used increasingly to the purpose of self-adaptation, as can be observed in Autonomic Computing. The aim of this theme is to gather research that discusses self-adaptation in system engineering with multi-agent technologies. Papers of particular interest in the theme should report on the engineering of self-adaptive mechanisms, and state the relations and differences with selforganizing mechanisms. Theme 2: "Pragmatic programming": Let's talk about debugging, testing, and validating agent systemsThis theme focuses explicitly on pragmatics in programming systems based on multi-agent technologies. The current state of the art shows a certain amount of work related to practice with multi-agent technologies, but also limited investigations in topics such as debugging, testing, and validation of multi-agent-based systems. Agile and formal methods are two aspects that are particularly relevant to this theme. Papers may address any stage of software development that pertains to the two themes of this year edition, including requirement analysis, architectural design, detailed design, implementation, and testing. Papers may report on processes and methods in addition to tools and techniques. Of particular interest are papers with perspectives that cut across the traditional boundaries of languages, systems and applications in the development of complex distributed software systems and focus on the aspects of decentralized control, openness, adaptability, and concurrency. |
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SubmissionSubmissions will be considered as full-papers in the review process. High quality submissions will be selected as full-papers and eligible for best paper award. Other submissions will be considered either as short papers (posters), or rejected if they do not meet theme or quality requirements. APSLA aims at a high quality event and the first edition featured an acceptance rate inferior to 18%. This second edition will follow the same quality target, and the organizing team is considering inviting the best papers of the track to a special issue of an international journal on the two themes of this year edition. Paper templates (Word, PDF, Latex) will be publihsed at ACM SAC 2009 Website. Submission site will appear later. |
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Important DatesIn accordance with ACM SAC 2009 organization: Aug 16, 2008Aug 23, 2008 : Submission of papers by authors |
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