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             FUTURE OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
	 
                               FOSE-MAS 2008 
         
    	       
                        Special Session at AAMAS 2008
                      Estoril, Portugal, May 15-17, 2008  
 

            C A L L   F O R   P O S I T I O N   S T A T E M E N T S 
		

The AAMAS 2008 program will include a session dedicated to the future of 
software engineering and multi-agent systems (FOSE-MAS). The goal of the 
session is to reflect on the state of the art in software engineering and 
multi-agent systems and explore key directions for future research in the 
field. The session will run as an interactive panel discussion. Input for 
the discussion will be provided by four panelists that are invited by the
advisory board and a selection of position statements from the community.

PANEL

  - Van Parunak: Chair
  - Scott DeLoach: Moving Multi-Agent Systems from Research to Practice
  - Monique Calisti: Opportunities to Support Wide-spread Adoption of
                     Software Agents
  - Danny Weyns: How to Get Multi-Agent Systems Accepted in Industry?
  - Michael Georgeff: The MAS – SE Gap: Bridging the Divide
  - Onn Shehory: Wrap up


We solicit position statements from the community. Two types of postition
statement are invited:

  - Type 1: the authors take a position against a postion put forward by
            one or more invited panelists
  - Type 2: the authors put forward a position for discussion related to
            software engineering and multi-agent systems that is not
            considered by the position statements of the invited panelists

Authors should clearly state the type of their position statement. Each
position statement must be provided with a title that summarizes the
authors position. Position statements are limited to 500 words and should
be send in pdf format to fose-mas [at] cs.kuleuven.be. All submissions
will be evaluated by members of the advisory board and additional reviewers.
Authors of a limited number of position statements will be invited to
present their position during the FOSE-MAS session. In addition, a
selection of position statements will be made available online and serve as
input for the discussion. Criteria for invitations and selection are
relevance and clarity of the position statement.


IMPORTANT DATES

  - Submission Position Statements: April 15 (extended)
  - Notification: May 2 (delayed)
  - FOSE-MAS session: May 15


ORGANIZATION

  Coordination: Danny Weyns
  Advisory board: Mike Luck, On Shehory, Michael Winikoff,
                  Alessandro Ricci, John Thangarajah, Mehdi Dastani

INFO

  FOSE-MAS: http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~danny/fose-mas.php
            fose-mas [at] cs.kuleuven.be
  AAMAS 2008: http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/


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