!!!! CELEBRATING 10th EDITION OF DALT AND THE ALAN TURING YEAR !!!! !!! Short position papers submission deadline: 30 March 2012 !!! 10th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT 2012) 4 June 2012 Valencia, Spain (held in conjunction with AAMAS 2012) URL: http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni/DALT-2012/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR SHORT POSITION PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To celebrate its 10th edition and the Alan Turing year, DALT will open to short position papers, to return to its grassroots: a workshop where much discussion took place. To encourage and focus these discussions, we solicit short position papers which might i) present a new line of research; ii) criticize (the lack of) research on topic X; iii) present a problem; or iv) make a case for more research on a particular topic Short position papers will be up to four pages in length, formatted using the LNCS style, and will be subject to a light-weight review process which will focus primarily on their ability to provoke new research and discussion, rather than on their technical contribution. Short position papers will be included the workshop proceedings distributed at AAMAS. This position papers track will facilitate new links between authors. The authors of those position papers that will turn out to stimulate more the discussion during the workshop will be invited to submit a full version for the post-proceedings volume (at that stage, papers will be re-refereed). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DALT topics of interest include, but are not limited to: DALT 2012 special topic: declarative approaches for agent-based social computing * models of social interactions among agents * models of buiness interactions among agents * models of trust, commitments, and reputation for agents * declarative description of contracts and negotiation policies * social environments based on declarative technologies * Semantic Web-aware declarative agents General themes: * specification of agents and multi-agent systems * declarative approaches to engineering agent-based systems Formal techniques: * (constraint) logic programming approaches to agent systems * distributed constraint satisfaction * modal and epistemic logics for agent modeling * game theory and mechanism design for multi-agent systems * semantics of agent communication * model checking agents and multi-agent systems * agent communication and coordination languages * protocol specification, verification, and reasoning Declarative models: * declarative models of agent beliefs, goals and capabilities * declarative models of bounded rationality * declarative approaches for agent-based grid computing * declarative paradigms for the combination of heterogeneous agents * declarative approaches to organizations and electronic institutions * agent-inspired declarative approaches to Web services and service-oriented computing Applications of declarative techniques to: * multi-agent systems for service-oriented computing * agent-based grid computing * security and trust in multi-agent systems * e-health, e-commerce, e-learning, sociotechnical systems, social networks, virtual organizations. Evaluation of declarative approaches: * experimental analysis of declarative agent technologies * industrial experiences with declarative agent technologies Please refer to the workshop site, http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni/DALT-2012/, for more details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SHORT POSITION PAPERS FORMAT AND DEADLINE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Short position papers should be up to 4 pages long, formatted according to the LNCS style. Deadline: March, 30th Notification: April, 6th Camera ready: April, 10th Papers should be submitted via the easychair site, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dalt2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANISERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino, Italy) Louise Dennis (University of Liverpool, UK) Viviana Mascardi (University of Genova, Italy) Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)