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*** 3nd CALL FOR PAPERS ***
6th International Workshop on LOGICS, AGENTS, and MOBILITY (LAM’13),
5 April 2013, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
organised as symposium at the AISB Annual Convention 2013
(http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/computer-science/research/aisb/)
* Important Submission Information *
Please submit your extended abstract by 14th January 2013.
You will be notified of acceptance/rejection by 11 February 2013.
The full version of your papers is then due by 4 March 2013.
Organisers:
Berndt “Bertie” Müller (Farwer), University of Glamorgan
Michael Köhler-Bussmeier, University of Hamburg
Workshop Homepage: http://lam2013.wordpress.com<http://lam2013.wordpress.com/>
* Workshop Purpose *
The aim of this series of workshops is to bring together active researchers in
the areas of logics and other formal frameworks on the one hand, and mobile
systems on the other hand. The main focus is on the field of applications of
logics and calculi for mobile agents, smart intelligent solutions and
multi-agent systems. Many notions used in the theory of agents are derived from
philosophy, logic, and linguistics (belief, desire, intention, speech act,
etc.), and interdisciplinary discourse has proved fruitful for the advance of
this domain. Outside of academia, the deployment of large-scale pervasive
infrastructures (mobile ad-hoc networks, mobile devices, RFIDs, etc.) is
becoming a reality. This raises a number of scientific and technological
challenges for the software modelling and programming models for such
large-scale, open and highly-dynamic distributed systems. The agent and
multi-agent systems approach seems particularly adapted to tackle this
challenge, but there are many issues remaining to be investigated. For
instance, the agents must be location-aware since the actual services available
to them may depend on their (physical or virtual) location. The quality and
quantity of resources at their disposal is also largely fluctuant, and the
agents must be able to adapt to such highly dynamic environments. Moreover,
mobility itself raises a large number of difficult issues related to safety and
security, which require the ability to reason about the software (e.g. for
analysis or verification). Logics and type systems with temporal or other kinds
of modalities (relating to location, resource and/or security-awareness) play a
central role in the semantic characterisation and then verification of
properties about mobile agent systems. There are still many open problems and
research questions in the theory of such systems. The workshop is intended to
showcase results and current work being undertaken in these areas with a focus
on logics for specification and verification of dynamic, mobile systems.
The topics of interest lie in the area of logics and concurrent systems with a
focus on the special application domain of mobile systems and
(multi-)agent-based systems, such as:
* Applications of logics and/or multi-agent systems
* Smart/intelligent solutions
* Models of concurrency
* Models of resource-bounded systems
* Models of location-based reasoning
* Logics for concurrency with a perspective on mobility
* Models of mobile systems
* Verification and analysis techniques
* Related programming models
Scopes of Interest
* applications of MAS
* logics for specification and reasoning about agents, MAS, and mobile systems
* treatment of location and resources in logics
* security (e.g., in ad-hoc networks)
* temporal logics and model checking
* type systems and static analysis
* logic programming
* concurrency theory with a focus on mobility or dynamics in agent systems.
* Previous Workshops *
LAM’08: 4–8 August 2008 at ESSLI in Hamburg, Germany
LAM’09: 10 August 2009 at LICS in Los Angeles, USA
LAM’10: 15 July 2010 at LICS in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
LAM’11: 10 September 2011 at CONCUR in Aachen, Germany
LAM’12: 25 June 2012 at Petri Nets 2012, Hamburg, Germany
* Format of the Workshop *
The workshop will be held as a one day of the convention. There will be a short
introduction and brief survey of the field by the organisers as an introduction
to the workshop.
The workshop will contain invited talks, contributed talks, and will offer
opportunities for discussion. The latter will give the participants a chance to
discuss informally research directions, open problems, and possible
co-operations.
* Invited Speakers *
[To be announced.]
* Submission details *
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (about 2 pages) or a full
paper of original work in the
areas mentioned above. The workshop chair should be informed of closely related
work submitted to a conference or journal in advance of submission. One author
of each accepted paper will be expected to present it at the LAM’13 workshop.
Full papers should not exceed 15 pages, preferably using the LaTeX article or
LNCSS class. The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS.
Please send your submission electronically via EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lam13
The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop’s program committee and
additional reviewers.
Accepted papers will appear in electronic proceedings and authors will be
encouraged to re-submit papers to formal proceedings to be published as a
separate publication, e.g. as a special journal issue.
* Important Dates *
Abstract Submission Deadline: 14th January 2013
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 11 February 2013
Final version of full papers due: 4 March 2013
Workshop: at AISB 2013, 5 April 2013
