AGERE! Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications based on
Agents, Actors, and Decentralized Control
(http://agere2011.apice.unibo.it)

International Workshop to be held at SPLASH 2011, Portland, USA
(http://splashcon.org/2011/)

Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN

IMPORTANT DATES:

Papers can be submitted in two different moments:

[Early Submissions]

Paper Submission: Friday, 19 August 2011
Notification: Monday, 19 September 2011
Early SPLASH registration: Friday, 23 September 2011
Final version: Monday, 10 October 2011

This submission time is for whom would like to have the time to apply for the early SPLASH registration (23 Sept) if the paper is accepted.

[Late Submissions]

Paper Submission: Friday, 9 September 2011
Notification: Monday, 3 October 2011
Final version: Monday, 10 October 2011

[Demo]

Demo submission: Friday, 9 September 2011
Demo notification: Monday, 19 September 2011

Workshop date: Monday, 24 October 2011

RESUME
The fundamental turn of software into concurrency and distribution is not only a matter of performance, but also of design and abstraction, calling for programming paradigms that would allow more naturally than the current ones to think, design, develop, execute, debug and profile programs exhibiting different degrees of concurrency, reactiveness, autonomy, decentralization of control, distribution. This workshop aims at exploring programming approaches explicitly providing a level of abstraction that promotes a decentralized mindset in solving problems and programming systems. To this end, the abstractions of agents and actors (and systems of agents and actors) are taken as a natural reference: the objective of the workshop is then to foster the research in all aspects of agent-oriented programming and actor-oriented programming as evolution of mainstream paradigms (such as OOP), including the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on the models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications.

Read more at: http://agere2011.apice.unibo.it

Join the group: https://groups.google.com/group/agere-at-splash
to contribute to ongoing discussions about the AGERE! topics and workshop organization
("Starting the workshop Now!" initiative)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Rafael H. Bordini, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
(in alphabetic order, to be completed)

Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Joe Armstrong, SICS / Ericsson, Sweden
Olivier Boissier, LSTI ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Rafael Bordini, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Jean-Pierre Briot, LIP6, Paris 6, France
Rem Collier, UCL, Dublin
Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Jurgen Dix, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany
Koen Hindriks, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jomi Hubner, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Jamali Nadeem, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Ravi Pandya, Microsoft
Jens Palsberg, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
Birna van Riemsdijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein Technologies
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, LIP6 - University Pierre and Marie Curie
Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
Akinori Yonezawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
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