_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ SARC2009 _/ _/ Second International Workshop on _/ _/ Self-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation _/ _/ in Holonic Multi-Agent Systems _/ _/ and in Multi-Agent Systems _/ _/ _/ _/ http://sarc.workshop.free.fr/2009/ _/ _/ http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/congres/SARC2009/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Located at the third IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems San Francisco, California, September 14-18, 2009 http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/saso2009/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ OBJECTIVES _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Holonic Multi-Agent Systems, mainly used and developed in manufacturing systems, are more and more used in other fields such as complex system simulations, information systems, cooperative work... Holonic Multi-Agent Systems are flexible; the only strict obligation is to follow a pyramidal structure. They really have an interesting potential, however, methods and tools to facilitate their design and management, in particular regarding to their Self-Adaptation and Self-Organization properties, are required. Indeed, the main characteristics of an Holonic Multi-Agent System, that are the robustness and the cooperation, are dependent of the dynamic of the multi-agent system. Robustness enables Multi-Agent Systems to cope with perturbations, faults and hard constraints. Implementing such a property is typically a self-organization problem where regeneration of faulty agents, generation of new agents and/or migration of agents between Holonic Multi-Agent Systems are some examples of the proposed answers. Cooperation means that even if each agent has classically its own goals and strategies in the pyramidal organization, all agents taken together have to collectively lead the Holonic Multi-Agent System to its intended global goal. This property is generally processed by letting the agents locally and autonomously modifying their roles or behaviors, by adapting their strategies to work with other agents; it is a self-adaptation property. Emergence of behaviors, roles or organization is a reality and a need in Holonic Multi-Agent Systems and has to be analyzed and controlled. Second International Workshop on Self-Adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation proposes a framework to discuss on models and methods linked to robustness and cooperation in holonic multi-agent systems, and multi-agent systems, enabling emergence of new behaviors and sub-organizations. The workshop also aims to establish links between searchers that come from the Information Technologies field and searchers working in the holonic manufacturing systems domain. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ TOPICS OF INTEREST _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ We seek contributions on ongoing innovative work and applications on robustness and cooperation issues in multi-agent system based on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organization capacities. Specifically, the workshop topics include, but are not limited to: * holonic multi-agent system, * fault-recovery in holonic multi-agent systems, * models of cooperation and coordination for autonomous holonic agents, * predicting and controlling emergence of behavior in holonic multi-agent systems, * self-adaptation of roles and/or services in holonic multi-agent systems, * delegation tasks, reconfiguration tasks in holonic multi-agent systems, * self-organization of pyramidal-structured holonic multi-agent systems, * case studies that shows self-adaptation or self-organization in holonic multi-agent systems, * models of self-management for holonic multi-agent systems, * models and meta-models of self-organizing holonic multi-agent systems, * models and meta-models for hybrid multi-agent systems. A particular attention will be given to papers which address case studies, and which present self-adaptation or self-organization mechanisms in holonic multi-agent systems. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ IMPORTANT DATES _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Paper submission deadline: July 10th, 2009 Paper notifications: August 5th, 2009 Workshop: September 14th or 15th, 2009 just before the technical tracks of the conference. *****!!! Workshop attendees are requested to register for the main conference. !!!***** _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Authors Guidelines and Submission _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ A particular attention will be given to papers which address case studies, and which present self-adaptation or self-organization mechanisms in holonic multi-agent systems. Each paper will be reviewed by three members of the program committee. The submission should be 6 pages in length, including figures and references. The paper must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide 8.5" x 11" Two-Column Format. //Submission: Authors can submit their propositions before July 10th 2009, in pdf format, through the EasyChair URL on the web site http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/congres/SARC2009/ // Publication Channels // A selection of articles will be published as post-proceedings. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ ORGANIZING COMITTEE _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Emmanuel Adam (contact), LAMIH - UMR CNRS 8530, Universite de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambresis - FRANCE Email: emmanuel.adam@univ-valenciennes.fr Vincent Hilaire SET - UTBM Belfort, France Email: vincent.hilaire@utbm.fr Paulo Leitao Department of Electrical Engineering Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal email : pleitao@ipb.pt Paul Valckenaers Division of Production Engineering, Machine Design and Automation (PMA) KUL, Leuven, Belgium email : Paul.Valckenaers@mech.kuleuven.be _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ PROGRAM COMITTEE _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Frederic Armetta, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Jose Barata, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Carole Bernon, IRIT Toulouse, France Valerie Camps, IRIT Toulouse, France Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italie Zahia Guessoum, LIP6, CReSTIC-Reims Viviana Mascardi, Universita di Genova, Italy Andrea Omicini, Universita di Bologna, Italy Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Gauthier Picard, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France Leon Van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece Alois Zoitl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria