(MMAS2006)

 May 9, 2006
Future University -- Hakodate, Japan
(In conjunction with AAMAS2006)
http://www.entia.org/MMAS2006/


MMAS2006/LSMAS2006 Program
MMAS2006 and LSMAS2006 will be jointly held on May 9th, 2006.


We are today in the era of ubiquitous computing and networking: millions of electronic devices with computing facilities are connected with each other in ad hoc ways, and are required to behave coherently.

Massively multi-agent systems can be a major design paradigm or an implementation method for ubiquitous computing and networking. As infrastructure of massively multi-agent systems, technologies such as grid computing together with semantic annotation can be combined with agent technologies. A new system design approach -- society-centered design -- may be realized by embedding participatory technologies in human society. Applications include large-scale navigation, scientific or social simulations, e-science, e-home, e-offices and e-cities.

MMAS2006 will build on the great success of its predecessor, MMAS2004, which was held at Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan, December 10 - 11, 2004. The aim of this second workshop is to encourage existing activity in this field; to bring together computer science, information science and social science experts concerned with massively multi-agent systems and applications; and to share thier perceptions and explore future research challenges.

Areas of Interest are: (we would prefer not to rigorously limit topics under the general category of the workshop.)

        * Massively Multi-Agent Infrastructures
        * Massively Multi-Sensor Systems
        * Self-Organization Technologies
        * Design and Analysis of Massively Multi-Agent Systems
        * Large-scale Participatory Technologies
        * Integrating Massively Multi-agent Systems and Social Worlds
        * Applications of Massively Multi-Agent Systems
        * Massively Multi-Agent Simulation
        * Mega-Scale Navigation

The workshop will consist of oral presentations and/or invited talks.

Submit your full paper (ps or pdf, pdf is preferable) written in English, by e-mail to MMAS2006-workshop@entia.org. Full papers should be submitted camera-ready in Springer Lecture Note Series (LNCS/LNAI) format. Please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer Web page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Submitted full papers should be 12 to 15 pages long in the LNCS/LNAI format. Surface mail address, e-mail addresses should be included for all contributing authors.

Important Schedule
      Deadline for submitting full paper: Feburary 1, 2006
      Author notification: February 19, 2006
      Deadline for camera ready paper: March 12, 2006
      Workshop: May 9, 2006

All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two or three reviewers from the program committee. The program committee will evaluate each research paper based on relevance (to the workshop), significance, clarity, originality and correctness. Accepted papers will be printed and distributed to registered participants during the workshop.

MMAS2006 Organizers

Alexis Drogoul Research Institute for Development, France
Les Gasser University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Koiti Hasida Information Technology Research Institute, AIST, Japan
Toru Ishida Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
Nadeem Jamali University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Hideyuki Nakashima Future University - Hakodate
Toshiharu Sugawara NTT Communication Science Laboratory, Japan

MMAS2006 Program Committee

PC Co-Chairs:
Alexis Drogoul Research Institute for Development, France
Nadeem Jamali University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Toshiharu Sugawara NTT Communication Science Laboratory, Japan
PC Members
Gul Agha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Robert Axtell The Brookings Institution
Dan Corkill University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Satoru Fujita Internet System Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation
Les Gasser University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Zahia Guessoum University of Paris 6
Koiti Hasida Information Technology Research Institute, AIST, Japan
Toru Ishida Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
WooYoung Kim Motorola Inc., USA
Yasuhiko Kitamura Kwansei Gakuin University
Kazuhiro Kuwabara ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories
Satoshi Kurihara Osaka University
Koichi Kurumatani Information Technology Research Institute, AIST
Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Jiming Liu Hong Kong Baptist University
Hideyuki Nakashima Future University - Hakodate
Akihiko Ohsuga TOSHIBA Corporation
Ei-ichi Osawa Future University - Hakodate
Van Parunak ALTARUM
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein Hebrew University
Larry Rudolph Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab., MIT
Norman M. Sadeh School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Ichiro Satoh National Institute of Informatics
Paul Scerri Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Olivier Simonin University of Belfort, France
Walt Truszkowski NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Tom Wagner DARPA
Gaku Yamamoto IBM Research, Tokyo Research Lab.
Jung-Jin Yang The Catholic University of Korea
Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University
Franco Zambonelli Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy