CFP: 1st Intl WS on Smart Grid Technologies (SGT05)

["Huhns, Michael" <huhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

                             1st Call for Papers
                        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

Grid Computing is a novel and active research domain for complex,
dynamic,  distributed, and flexible resource sharing. Recent reserach 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
 
   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
 
Authors should submit original contributions electronically in PS or PDF
format to Daniel Veit (veit@xxxxxxxxx). In addition, authors should
submit 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@xxxxxxxxx).

We envisage formal post-workshop publication of selected and revised
contributions. Therefore, we are negotiating with publishers.

Important Dates

March 10, 2005                       Submission of ASCII abstracts
March 14, 2005                       Submission of papers
April 18, 2005                       Notification of acceptance

Program Committee

    * Bernhard Bauer (University of Augsburg, Germany)
    * Martin Bichler (Technical University Munich, Germany)
    * Monique Calisti (Whitestein Technologies, Swizerland)
    * 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

Torsten Eymann
University of Bayreuth
Chair for Information Systems, Germany
eymann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Nick R. Jennings
School of Electronics & Computer Science
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
nrj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

J=F6rg P. M=FCller
Intelligent Autonomous Systems
Siemens AG, Germany
joerg.p.mueller@xxxxxxxxxxx

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

Professor Nick Jennings
Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group    t: +44 (0) 23 8059 7681
Electronics and Computer Science          f: +44 (0) 23 8059 2865
University of Southampton                 e: nrj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.                
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nrj