LAM'09: Call far Participation (Logics, Agents, Mobility)

[Berndt Farwer-2]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 

Workshop on Logics for Agents and Mobility (LAM'09) http://www.dur.ac.uk/lam.09 

10 August 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA

organised as satellite workshop at the Twenty-Fourth Annual IEEE

Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2009), 11–14 August

2009, Los Angeles, California, USA

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          EARLY REGISTRATION CLOSES JULY 26

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          Invited Speakers: 

           Dale Miller (INRIA), 

           Frédéric Peschanski (Paris 6), 

           Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon)

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The aim of this 2nd workshop on Logics, Agents, and Mobility is

to bring together active researchers in the area of logics and

mobile systems, especially in the field of logics and calculi for

mobility, agents, and multi-agent systems. Many notions used in

the theory of agents are derived from philosophy, logic, and

linguistics (belief, desire, intention, speech act, etc.), and

interdisciplinary discourse has proved fruitful for the advance

of this domain. Outside of academia, the deployment of

large-scale pervasive infrastructures (mobile ad-hoc networks,

mobile devices, RFIDs, etc.) is becoming a reality. This raises a

number of scientific and technological challenges for the

software modelling and programming models for such large-scale,

open and highly-dynamic distributed systems. The agent and

multi-agent systems approach seems particularly adapted to tackle

this challenge, but there are many issues remaining to be

investigated. For instance, the agents must be location-aware

since the actual services available to them may depend on their

(physical or virtual) location. The quality and quantity of

resources at their disposal is also largely fluctuant, and the

agents must be able to adapt to such highly dynamic environments.

Moreover, mobility itself raises a large number of difficult

issues related to safety and security, which require the ability

to reason about the software (e.g. for analysis or verification).

Logics and type systems with temporal or other kinds of

modalities (relating to location, resource and/or

security-awareness) play a central role in the semantic

characterisation and then verification of properties about mobile

agent systems. There are still many open problems and research

questions in the theory of such systems. The workshop is intended

to showcase results and current work being undertaken in these

areas with a focus on logics for specification and verification

of dynamic, mobile systems.

The main topics of interest are

- logics for specification and reasoning about agents, MAS, and 

  mobile systems in a broader sense 

- treatment of location and resources in logics (e.g. Linear  

  Logic, BI-Logic, ambient calculus, spatial logics) 

- security in ad-hoc networks 

- temporal/modal logics and model checking 

- type systems and static analysis 

- logic programming.

Format of the Workshop:

The workshop will be held as a one day event before LICS. There

will be a general introduction and brief survey of the field by

the organiser as an introduction to the workshop.

The workshop will contain invited talks, contributed talks, and a

discussion session. The latter is meant to give the participants

a chance to discuss informally research directions, open

problems, and possible co-operations.

Invited Speakers:

Dale Miller (INRIA, France) 

Frédéric Peschanski (Paris 6, France) 

Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon, USA)

Programme Committee:

Thomas Agotnes, Bergen, Norway 

Matteo Baldoni, Torino, Italy

Marina De Vos, Bath, UK 

Louise Dennis, Liverpool, UK 

Jürgen Dix, Clausthal, Germany 

Berndt Farwer (chair), Durham, UK 

Michael Fisher, Liverpool, UK 

Didier Galmiche, Nancy, France 

Paul Harrenstein, München, Germany 

James Harland, Melbourne, Australia

Andreas Herzig, Toulouse, France 

Wojtek Jamroga, Clausthal,Germany 

Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, Hamburg, Germany 

João Leite, Lisbon, Portugal 

Alessio Lomuscio, London, UK 

Dale Miller, INRIA, France 

Frédéric Peschanski, Paris, France 

Vladimiro Sassone, Southampton, UK 

Mark-Oliver Stehr, Menlo Park, USA 

Wamberto Vasconcelos, Aberdeen, UK

Further Information:

About the workshop: http://www.dur.ac.uk/lam.09 

Registration is via the LICS web site:

http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics09/

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