C A L L  F O R  P A P E R S		

		    Agent-Based Computing 2003 (ABC'03)
                Special Session in conjunction with
  The 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics

  July 27-30, 2003 ~ Orlando, Florida, USA, http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003
              Session URL: http://www.cs.siu.edu/~abc03/


Agent-based computing has been hailed as the next significant breakthrough
in software development, with the potential to affect many aspects of 
computer science, from artificial intelligence to the technologies and 
models of distributed computation. Agent-based systems are capable of 
autonomous action in open, dynamically-changing environments. Agents are 
currently being applied in domains as diverse as business information 
systems, computer games and interactive cinema, information retrieval and 
filtering, user interface design and industrial process control. The aim 
of the ABC'03 is to bring together researchers and developers from 
industry and academia in order to report on the latest scientific and 
technical advances, discuss and debate the major issues, and showcase the 
latest systems.

The special session welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all 
aspects of software agents.  Submissions involving both implementation and 
theoretical issues are encouraged.  

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Agent architectures
- Agent-based software engineering
- Agent benchmarking and performances
- Agent communication, coordination and cooperation
- Agent languages
- Agent learning and planning
- Agent mobility
- Agent modeling, calculi, and logics
- Agent security
- Applications and Experiences
- Simulating and verifying agent systems


*Submission and Publication:

Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Papers should 
be a maximum of six single-spaced typed pages. Accepted submissions will 
be presented orally in the conference and published by means of paper and 
electronic proceedings by the International Institute of Informatics and 
Systemics (IIIS). In addition, selected and additionally refereed papers 
will be published after the meeting as a special issue of a journal (more 
details will be provided later).

Submit your papers to: sag@cs.siu.edu



*Conference Fees:   

The conference fees will be $370 before the Camera Ready deadline and 
$420 after the Camera Ready deadline. Participants will receive a CD-ROM 
version of the proceedings and one volume of the hard copy version of 
the Conference Proceedings. 

For more information, please refer to http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003/


* Important Dates:

- Paper submissions: December 27, 2002
- Acceptance notification: February 19, 2003
- Camera-ready final papers: April 9, 2003

* Program Committee:

Dia Ali, Univ. of S. Mississippi, USA
Giacomo Cabri, Univ. of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy 
Gabriel Ciobanu, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
Maria Cobb, Univ. of S. Mississippi, USA
Sabin Corneliu Buraga, Univ. of Iasi, Romania
Stan Franklin, Univ. of Memphis, USA
Violetta Galant, Wroclaw Univ. of Economics, Poland
Henry Hexmoor, Univ. of Arkansas, USA
Sofiane Labidi, Federal University of Maranhão, Brasil
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Armin R. Mikler, Univ. of North Texas, USA
Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State Univ., USA
Fred Petry, Tulane Univ., USA
Tomas E. Potok, Oak Ridge National Lab. USA
Stanislaw Stanek, K. Adamiecki Academy of Economics, Poland
Ron Sun, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA  
Tatyana Yakhno, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey

* Session Organizer and Chair:

Shahram Rahimi, Southern Illinois University, USA
rahimi@cs.siu.edu