[sem-grd] CFP: First International Workshop on Smart Grid Technologies (SGT05)

[David De Roure]

					LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
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				First International Workshop on 
				Smart Grid Technologies (SGT05)
				 www.iw.uni-karlsruhe.de/sgt05


To be held at the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (www.aamas2005.nl) July 25 - 29, 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands


Description
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Grid Computing is a novel and active research domain for complex, dynamic, distributed, and flexible resource sharing. Recent research on Grid has largely focused on issues of performance, scalability, and standardization. Yet, little has been done on aspects of intelligence and adaptability. Agent and multi-agent technologies provide a promising approach to make Grid technologies and solutions based on Grid technologies smarter, more flexible, and adaptable.
The kind of questions which arise in this research area are twofold: On the one hand, technical questions concerning the Grid have to be solved, including advanced Grid architectures, semantically enhanced service descriptions, and the specification of resources. On the other hand issues related to autonomy, collaboration, and economic models need to be tackled. Key issues here are market-based allocation and scheduling of resources, pricing, payment, automated negotiation, market mechanisms, self-organization and learning, engineering of Grid marketplaces and many others. 

Topics of Interest
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This workshop focuses on the combination of agent-based research approaches and the Grid technology. Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:
*	Modeling of Grid environments 
*	Agent-based mechanisms for Grid markets 
*	Resource allocation in Grid scenarios using agent-based approaches 
*	Automated negotiation for Grid resource allocation 
*	Agent-based simulation of Grid environments and markets 
*	Agent-based Computational Economics for Grid 
*	Engineering of Grid markets and Grid architectures 
*	Technical research on future application domains 
The workshop particularly welcomes interdisciplinary papers and those reporting on industry experiences and implementations.

Submission Details
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Authors should submit original contributions electronically in PS or PDF format to Daniel Veit (veit at iw.uka.de). In addition, authors should submit an ASCII abstract (max. 300 words), with the following information: title of paper; names and affiliations of authors; name, email, snail mail, phone number, and fax number of primary contact; abstract. The same information should be included on the first page of submitted papers. Papers must be written in English, with a maximum length of 16 pages. Please format papers according to the Springer LNCS style. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. All correspondence will be with Daniel Veit (veit at iw.uka.de). 
We envisage formal post-workshop publication of selected and revised contributions. Therefore, we are negotiating with publishers.

Important Dates
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March 28, 2005 (EXTENDED) 	Submission of papers
April 18, 2005	 	 	Notification of acceptance

Program Committee
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*	Bernhard Bauer (University of Augsburg, Germany) 
*	Martin Bichler (Technical University Munich, Germany) 
*	Monique Calisti (Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland) 
*	Mauro Gallegati (University of Ancona, Italy) 
*	Wolfgang Gentzsch (MCNC Grid Computing and Networking Services, USA) 
*	Sven Graupner (HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA) 
*	Chris Kenyon (IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland) 
*	Leandro Navarro (University of Catalonia, Spain) 
*	James Odell (Agentis, USA) 
*	Fethi Rabhi (University of New South Wales, Australia) 
*	Omer F. Rana (University of Cardiff, UK) 
*	Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz, Germany) 
*	Craig Thompson (University of Arkansas, USA) 
*	Christof Weinhardt (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) 
*	Floriano Zini (ITC-irst, Trento, Italy) 


Workshop Organizers
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Torsten Eymann
University of Bayreuth
Chair for Information Systems, Germany
eymann at uni-bayreuth.de

Nick R. Jennings
School of Electronics & Computer Science 
University of Southampton 
Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK 
nrj at ecs.soton.ac.uk 

Joerg P. Müller
Intelligent Autonomous Systems 
Siemens AG, Germany
joerg.p.mueller at siemens.com

Daniel J. Veit (Primary Contact)
University of Karlsruhe
Information Management and Systems, Germany
veit at iw.uka.de 
+49-721-608-8372



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