Workshop on the Internet of Agents(IoA)

CALL FOR PAPERS:

First International Workshop on the Internet of Agents(IoA), Omaha, Nebraska United States, October 13 2016.

 

Co-located with WI-16

 

Workshop Webpage: http://www2.cs.siu.edu/~salqithami/ioa/index.html

Important Time Line:

Workshop Announcement:
April 15, 2016

Submission Deadline:
June 1, 2016

Notification of acceptance:
June 25, 2016

Workshop Day:
October 13, 2016

On the confluence between Multi-AgentSystems (MAS) and the Internet of Things (IoT), there is a strongongoing trend for the IoT to seize the intelligent nature/architecture of theMAS. In the Internet of Agents (IoA) workshop, we aim to understand thecurrent range of nascent network centric agents. At one end of the spectrum,this includes agents’ efforts to form collaborative units. On the other end ofthe spectrum, we seek to understand techniques and methodologies forconstructing online agents that represent interests of their actual counterpartsand take actions autonomously. This workshop will reflect the impacts of thedynamic network proliferation and start of smart agent systems that exploit andexplore opportunities heralded by the fast social-pace of interconnectivity.

Smart agents are aware of the socialclimate of their environment while performing their design tasks or multitasks.They account for interactions with other agents so as to perform social acts inorder to complement their physical and speech acts. This workshop emphasizes onthe operational elements of the dynamic network that facilitate intelligence onthe Internet. Social and cognitive foundations surrounding IoA that includenature of interactions among agents engaged in a meaningful exchange are ofspecial interest.

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Objectives:

The workshop seeks to attract papersconcerning:

• Discussing general challenges of IoA and potential solutions,
• Presenting a novel architecture of IoA,
• Describing experiments or prototype design for IoA, or
• Presenting successful applications combining IoT and MAS.

This can be through theoretical analyses or simulationmethods.

Topics of Interest: (Not exhaustive)

• Agents-based interactive environments
• Architectures of cognitively reasoned interactions
• Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms
• Collective benefits of political fallouts and economic externalities
• Computational models of distributed technologies
• IoT/M2M applications and services employing MAS
• Globalized networks and grid alliances
• Network-centric warfare, individualism or organizations
• Smart societies and cities deploying protocols of an IoA.