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    LAST CALL FOR PAPERS (extended deadline to 31 Dec 2008)
         Workshop on Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems
                             SOMAS 2009
                                at
                     3rd KES International Symposium on
     AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS - TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS
                            KES AMSTA 2009
                      3 - 5 June 2009, Uppsala, Sweden

1. INTRODUCTION

The aim of the workshop is to bring together, for the second time at KES
AMSTA, researchers working on self-organization and adaptive multi-agent
systems as well as to discuss these issues and to present current research
results.

2. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

The proceedings are planned to be published by Springer in LNAI series.
A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers will be
expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issue of Journal of
Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (APPROVED).

Submitted papers for SOMAS should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and
should be limited to 10 pages. All submissions must be sent electronically
using the PROSE software review system.

3. TOPICS OF INTEREST

Self-organization: paradigms and applications
Self-adaptation and evolution
Topology and performance evaluation
Knowledge propagation and coordination
Robustness and fault tolerance
Dynamic team formation
Nature-inspired approaches
Cellular and organic grids, agent colonies
Social network analysis

4. Workshop Chair

Dariusz Król, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
dariusz.krol (at) pwr.wroc.pl
http://www.ii.pwr.wroc.pl/~krol/eng_index.html

5. International Program Committee

Ajith Abraham, Norwegian Univ of Science and Tech., Norway
Carlos Canal, University of Málaga, Spain
Frantisek Capkovic, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Jason J. Jung, Yeungnam University, Korea
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
Andrea Omicini, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Nir Oren, King's College London, United Kingdom
Jim O'Shea, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Maryam Purvis, University of Otago, New Zealand
Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, University of Otago, New Zealand
Simon See, Nanyang Tech. Univ. and NUS, Singapore
Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock, Germany
Mirko Viroli, Universita di Bologna, Italy

6. Important dates

Deadline for paper submission: 31 Dec 08
Notification of acceptance: 10 Jan 09
Receipt of publication files: 01 Feb 09

For information on conference venue, accommodation, registration and fee,
etc. please refer
to the KES AMSTA 2009 conference site.
http://amsta-09.kesinternational.org/