ROLES05 tracks: Roles in MAS; Ontology of roles; Roles in programming languages

We invite extended extended abstracts and position statements for three trac
ks of the 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium on Roles, an interdisciplinary perspectiv
e:

Track 1. Roles in multiagent systems
Track 2. Ontologies of roles
Track 3. Roles in programming languages and software engineering

Submission deadline: June 1. Accepted extended abstracts will be published i
n the proceedings and offer the opportunity to give a presentation at the sy
mposium. Accepted position statements are invited to the discussion.


Track descriptions.

Track 1. Roles in multiagent systems. In agent oriented software methodologi
es and programming languages like GAIA, TROPOS, 3APL, etc, roles are used to
 define the organizational structure of the multiagent systems: roles allow 
to distribute responsibilit
ies and obligations, and to require the suitable know how to their players. 
Open problems are how to transform organizational theories of roles in compu
tational theories and exploring mechanisms about how to assign agents to rol
es, how to design organizat
ions in terms of roles, monitoring of roles, etc.

Track 2. Ontologies of roles. Besides the notions of relation and individual
, which are present in most knowledge representation languages, more recentl
y ontologies postulate that the notion of role is another fundamental basic 
concept. Many questions rem
ain open on the role of roles in knowledge representation: Which are the pro
perties distinguishing roles from relations and individuals? How do these pr
operties help in costructing well founded ontologies? Can thematic roles, fu
nctional roles and social r
oles find a common foundation?

Track 3. Roles in programming languages and software engineering. Roles are 
usually modelled as dynamic classification (e.g., the Fibonacci language) or
 as instances to be adjoined to the entities which play the role (e.g., DOOR
). However, no consensus ye
t has been reached on how roles can be introduced as a construct in programm
ing languages, which are their properties, what roles are useful for, and ho
w they are compatible with the current Object Oriented systems. Finally, how
 do ontologically well foun
ded definitions of roles help in introducing roles in programming languages?


Submission information

All submissions should be uploaded at http://roles05.di.unito.it/

Questions should be sent to Guido Boella (guido [at] di.unito.it).

Abstract will be published in the symposium proceedings and the best papers 
of the symposium will be selected for publication on some renowed journal. P
articipants from all parts of the AI community as well as from other fields 
are encouraged. Instruction
s for authors can be found at website http://aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fall-...ia.
html


Deadlines

* June 1, 2005: Submission due to organizers
* June 10, 2005: Notifications of acceptance sent by organizers
* November 3-6, 2005: Symposium


Symposium information

2005 AAAI Fall Symposium
Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective
November 3-6, 2005, Hyatt Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia

With this symposium we propose to gather researchers working across the boun
daries of their subfields to explore new formal and computational techniques
 and research methodologies for integrating research results. For this reaso
n this symposium will provi
de time for discussion besides paper presentations.

http://normas.di.unito.it/zope/roles05

<http://normas.di.unito.it/zope/events/roles05.pdf>


Organizing Committee

Guido Boella - Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Torino
guido[at]di.unito.it

James Odell - Agentis, Ann Arbor (MI) USA
mailbox[at]jamesodell.com

Leendert van der Torre - CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands
torre[at]cwi.nl

Harko Verhagen - DSV, KTH/SU, Sweden
verhagen[at]dsv.su.se