CfP, AINS Symposium (The First Annual Symposium on Autonomous Intelligent Networks and Systems , UCLA, LA, USA< May 8-9, 2002

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

The First Annual Symposium on Autonomous Intelligent Networks and
Systems

                                                 www.ains.cs.ucla.edu

                                                  UCLA, May 8-9, 2002

The First Annual Symposium on Autonomous Intelligent Networks and
Systems,
sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and by the IEEE Communications
Society (pending approval) will take place at UCLA May 8-9, 2002.

This Symposium will explore research issues in the area of Autonomous
Intelligent Networks and Systems with applications in several
disciplines
including Communications Systems, Controls, Wireless Self-configuring Ad
Hoc
Networks, Battlefield Networks, Biologic Systems and related areas.
Continued
technological advances have brought us to the point where in the near
future
autonomous systems with hundreds or thousands of autonomous agents will
interact with the physical world in a distributed but coordinated
fashion, for
such purposes as defense, security, industrial control, environmental
monitoring, or planetary exploration. One of the key themes will be the
identification of common models, tools and methodologies that may be
transferred from one discipline to another, and of opportunities for
collaboration among engineers and scientists with different backgrounds,
working on related problems with different perspectives. A panel
discussion
will focus on homeland defense applications of such networks and
systems.

This symposium will serve as a forum for intelligent agent technologists
and
visionaries from academia, industry and research labs, to present
current
research, advanced technology, ongoing prototyping efforts, experience 
reports,
case studies, and descriptions of interesting systems.

Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing their future vision
as 
well as practical
technologies of significance and relevance to this area. Papers, written
in
English, should not exceed 3000 words. Papers must be unpublished and
must not
be submitted for publication elsewhere. A selection of the papers will
be
published as a Reference Book by MIT Press Perspective authors should 
submit an
extended abstract (max 3 pages), a complete list of authors and their
affiliations, a contact person for correspondence, and e-mail addresses. 
Papers
may be accepted either for oral or poster presentation. Both Abstract
and
Papers must be submitted in electronic form (Postscript or PDF).

     Topics include, but are not limited to:

o Self-configuring agent-based wireless networks
o Dynamic control of wireless mobile networks
o Distributed sensing and control networks
o Cooperative behavior in natural and artificial systems
o Software architecture for large-scale systems
o Simulation of large scale distributed systems
o Experimental platforms for the study of autonomous agents
o Security in distributed systems
o Fault tolerant distributed agent networks
o Resource management in autonomous systems

     Important Dates

o Electronic Abstract Submission March 1st, 2002
o Acceptance/Rejection Notification March 30th, 2002
o Camera Ready Manuscripts due April 20th, 2002


General Chairs: Allen Moshfegh, ONR, and Mario Gerla, UCLA, Henry
Samueli
School of Engineering and Applied Science

Program Co-Chairs: John Villasenor, Greg Pottie and Izhak Rubin, UCLA,
Henry
Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

Please submit your abstract via email to the following address:
ains@cs.ucla.edu


     Technical Program Committee

o Rajive Bagrodia, UCLA
o Babak Danesrad, UCLA
o Mario Gerla, UCLA
o Allen Moshfegh, ONR
o Greg Pottie, UCLA
o Izhak Rubin, UCLA
o Mani Srivastava, UCLA
o John Villasenor, UCLA
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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