ISC’06

The Industrial Simulation Conference 2006 (ISC-2006) aims to give a complete overview of industrial simulation related research and
to provide an annual status report on present day industrial simulation research within the European Community and the rest of the world. The exchange of techniques and ideas among the different disciplines, universities and industry, which support the integration of simulation in the everyday workplace, is the basic premise at the heart of ISC'06.
ISC'06 is sponsored by the EUROSIS (The European Multidisciplinary Society for Modeling and Simulation Technology), and is hosted by the University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.

Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S)

Multi-agent systems (MAS) provide powerful models for representing real-world environments with an appropriate degree of complexity and dynamism. Several industrial experiences have already shown that the use of MAS offers advantages in manufacturing processes, e-Commerce, and network management. Since MAS in such contexts are to be tested before their actual deployment and execution, methodologies that support validation through simulation of the MAS under development are highly required. In fact, MAS simulation cannot only demonstrate that a MAS correctly behaves according to its specifications but can also support the analysis of emergent properties of the MAS under-test.
In this special track we are interested in the combined issues of multi-agent systems and simulation particularly in the context of Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE).

Program Chairs

Giancarlo Fortino - University of Calabria - g.fortino@unical.it

Massimo Cossentino - ICAR/CNR  (Palermo) - cossentino@pa.icar.cnr.it

Wilma Russo - University of Calabria - w.russo@unical.it