Topics
 Theory/methodology:
o High-level and declarative agent specification languages for modeling and simulation.
o Agent programming and simulation modeling languages.
o Distributed simulation for multi-agent systems.
o Formal models of agents and agent societies.
o Advanced agent features for agent-directed simulation: e.g.,
 Holonic agents for cooperation and coopetition modeling and simulation.
 Agents with personality, agents with dynamic personality, agents with
emotions, agents having different types of intelligence such as emotional
intelligence, agents with multi-intelligence.
 Influence of cultural backgrounds in agent-directed simulation.
 Agents with several types of understanding abilities such as multivision and
switchable understanding abilities,
 Trustworthy agents, and moral agents in simulation.
 Agent-based simulation to monitor multi-simulation studies.
 Agents in design and monitoring of simulation experiments and analysis of
results.
 Verification, validation, testing; quality assurance; as well as failure
avoidance in agent-directed simulations.

 Technology, tools, toolkits, and environments:
o Agent infrastructures and supporting technologies (e.g., interoperability, agentoriented software engineering environments).
o Modeling, design, and simulation of agent systems based on service-oriented
technologies, pervasive computing, web-services, grid computing, autonomic
computing, ambient intelligence.
o Agent architectures, platforms, and frameworks.
o Standard APIs for agent simulation programming.

 Applications:
o Simulation modeling of agent technologies at the organization, interaction (e.g.,
communication, negotiation, coordination, collaboration) and agent level (e.g.,
deliberation, social agents, computational autonomy).
o Application of agent simulations in various areas such as biology, business,
commerce, economy, engineering, environment, individual, group, and organizational
behavior, management, simulation gaming/training, social systems.
o Conflict management simulation with holonic agents.
o Modeling and simulation of emergence.