Important Dates:

• May 15, 2010       Abstract   due

• May 31, 2010       Notice   of   acceptance

REGISTRATION,   General   Information:     www.iias.edu

Focus of the Symposium:

The symposium invites all kinds of contributions and presentations dealing with modeling in the highly interdisciplinary and very large fields mentioned in the title of the symposium. Work in the interplay and interaction of theory and practice - including industrial applications - is welcome.

The notion Multiagent System (MAS) meanwhile can be considered as a universal modeling paradigm - assuming that the definition of agent and communication and cooperation can be very general (typed objects and relations). Multiagent Systems are almost everywhere, there is a huge variety of systems that can be interpreted as a MAS. A physicist might tend to say that a MAS is a many-particle system with interaction.
The symposium organizer works with an own new general mathematical model of a MAS using Category Theory. This is the basis for current and future work on MAS in his working group (cf. e.g.   the notion of Base Diagram of a MAS and application of Graph Transformation methods).
More details can be found in the links mentioned below.

TOPICS include (but are not limited to):

• Multiagent Systems (MAS),   General Modeling Aspects
  
• Artificial, Technical Agents and Human Agents
  
• MAS, ROBOT Simulation and Simulation of Human Agents
  
• Agent Technology and Software Systems
  
• Human and Robot Cooperation and Interaction
  
• RFID Technological Ascepts
  
• Knowledge-based Systems, Knowledge Management, Information Retrieval
  
• MAS and the Semantic Web
  
• Automated Reasoning, Logical Inference Systems
  
• Decision Support Systems and MAS
  
• Scheduling and Planning
  
• Categorical, Algebraic, Geometric, Topological Modeling Aspects
  (c.f. ACCAT,   Applied and Computational Category Theory,
  and c.f.   Topological Psychology Topology.
  Geometry of Network Structures,   cf. NOTA below).
  
• Petri Nets, Process Algebras, Activity Networks
  
• Logical Modeling, Unifying Frameworks
  
• Connectionist Network Techniques
  
• Learning and Selforganization in Systems
  
• Coalgebraic Methods in Systems Theory
  
• Communication and Cooperation,   Swarm Intelligence
  
• Soft Computing Techniques and Approaches,   Hybrid Systems Modeling
  
• Symbolic Computation Approaches
  
• Generalized Automata,   Categorical Methods
  
• Computational MAS
  
• Cybernetic Systems with Intention and Subjectivity
  
• Simulation of Emotional Behavior
  
• Humanoid Robots
  
• Trends in Future Service Robots Construction
  
• Cognitive Aspects of Technological Systems: Cognitive Factory
  
• Production Automation Scenarios,   Virtual Reality
  
• Industrial Projects and Applications

    Some LINKS of INTEREST for the Symposium Topics:

http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~jpfalz/ROBOTICS.html     ROBOTICS

http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~jpfalz/EUROCAST.html     EUROCAST

Multiagent Systems (MAS):
      Modeling Aspects from Category Theory (CAT) and Logical Fiberings (LogFib),
      Base Diagram of a MAS,     CAT and LogFib modeling in MAS

http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~jpfalz/ETAPS-2010.html     5th ACCAT Workshop 2010

Institute for Topological Psychology.   Tucson, Arizona:
      Remark on Connectionist Networks and Simplicial Topology,
      "Why Topological?"   Topology

http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~jpfalz/MATHmod.html     MATH Modeling Aspects

NOTA:   Categorical and Geometric Aspects in Artificial Neural Network Structure Modeling and Learning.
Cf. the corresponding section in the ACCAT Tutorial held at KI-2004   ( ACCAT Tutorial)
and the abstract of a talk given at ETAPS-2007   ACCAT and Theoretical Neurobiology   and the article   ACCAT and Neural Networks.

Call for Papers (Abstracts):

Abstracts of approximately 200 words may be submitted   (Microsoft Word or .pdf files)   by Email   to the Symposium Chairman.
Extended Abstracts and even Long Abstracts are welcome as well.

Review Process and Conference Proceedings:

All submitted abstracts will be reviewed.
It is intended to edit a Proceedings Book with invited contributions after the Symposium.
Information of the Editors:   Final papers are limited to max. 5 pages.

Collection of Symposium ABSTRACTS:

A Collection of ABSTRACTS of the Symposium Talks will be distributed as hard copies at the Symposium.

Schedule of Presentations:

The List of Talks can be found on the InterSymp-2010 page of IIAS as soon as the Symposium Program will be complete.

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Symposium Book (Proceedings of the Symposium)

The Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Multiagent Systems, Robotics and Cybernetics: Theory and Practice (held August 1, 2005, Baden-Baden, Germany)   appeared as a Book:

"ADVANCES in MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS, ROBOTICS and CYBERNETICS:   Theory and Practice"   (Volume I)
  Edited by:   George E.LASKER   and   Jochen PFALZGRAF
  Published by:   The INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDIES in
  SYSTEMS RESEARCH and CYBERNETICS   (2006).
ISBN   1-897233-36-1

The Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Multiagent Systems, Robotics and Cybernetics: Theory and Practice (held August 1 - 2, 2007, Baden-Baden, Germany)   appeared as a Book:

"ADVANCES in MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS, ROBOTICS and CYBERNETICS:   Theory and Practice"   (Volume II)
  Edited by:   George E.LASKER   and   Jochen PFALZGRAF
  Published by:   The INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDIES in
  SYSTEMS RESEARCH and CYBERNETICS   (2008).
ISBN   978-1-897233-61-0

The Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Multiagent Systems, Robotics and Cybernetics: Theory and Practice (held August 5 - 6, 2009, Baden-Baden, Germany)   shall appear as a Book.
Work is in progress.