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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Call for
Papers and Demos<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">2nd
Workshop on Multi-agent Based Applications for Smart Grids and
Sustainable
Energy Systems (MASGES) <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">as part
of<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">12th
Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (PAAMS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Salamanca
(Spain), 4th-6th June, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:24.0pt"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Important dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="tab-stops:127.6pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Submission
date papers, 20th January, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="tab-stops:127.6pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Submission
date papers, 24th February, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="tab-stops:127.6pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Notification
of acceptance, 24th February, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="tab-stops:127.6pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Camera-ready
deadline, 10th March, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;tab-stops:127.6pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Conference
dates, 4th-6th June, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:24.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Workshop motivation and topics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">After the explicit
commitment of many countries to support the installation and
operation of (small)
renewable energy production sources, energy grids need to become
more
intelligent and flexible. Such so called smart grids probably
need to rely on
decentralized control and a highly efficient, flexible and
reliable management.
Smart grids need to be capable of autonomously and intelligently
configuring
themselves to exploit available resources as efficiently as
possible, to be
robust to all kinds of failures and energy production
deviations, and to be
extendable and adaptable in the light of rapidly changing
technologies and
requirements. The distributed nature of the underlying control
structure of
such systems, and the autonomous behaviour expected from them
points towards
multi-agent systems as a possible underlying implementation
platform for the
management software of such grids. But not only energy
production and provision
have to change. The house as well as the <a
name="_Hlk374385153">transportation
means </a>of the future need to be smoothly integrated into
such a smart grid
concept, requiring houses and transportation means to be smart
as well. On the
economic side, the electrical power industry was traditionally
intensively
regulated with led to a lack of market-price mechanisms. After
the introduction
of new regulations it has evolved into a distributed and
competitive industry
in which market forces dictate electricity prices. Electricity
markets (EMs)
are an evolving new reality, meaning that researchers lack
insight into
numerous open problems associated with them, e.g. the technical
difficulties to
understand the internal dynamics of EMs and the additional
complexity in
coordinating economic and financial issues. Thus, the focus of
this workshop is
on applications of multi-agent systems technology in smart
grids, smart homes
and electricity markets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Additionally, we are
planning various “demo sessions” to give participants from
academia an
opportunity to present their latest developments on practical
applications of
agent technology. Project coordinators as well as PhD students
are encouraged
to submit the description of valuable demos resulting from their
work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:24.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">List of Topics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">The
focus of this workshop is on the application of multi-agent
systems in smart
grids, smart homes, and electricity markets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Examples
of areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">Agent-based
prediction, adaption and
optimization of energy use within homes, buildings,
organisations and
micro-grids<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">Coalition
formation strategies for
coordinated energy use across multiple consumers, forming
virtual power
stations, and performing intelligent demand management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">Interactions
and exchange between networks
for electricity, gas and heat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:34.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-17.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">Multi-agent
based simulations of energy
grids and markets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">Multi-Agent
based Smart Grids Testbeds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:34.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-17.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">Experiences
with MAS-based Smart Grid
implementations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:34.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-17.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">Applications
of MAS-based Smart Grid
technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:34.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-17.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">MAS-based
real time adaptation of energy
networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:34.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-17.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">MAS-based
self-configuration or
self-healing of energy systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:34.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-17.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">MAS-based
load modelling and control<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:34.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-17.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">MAS-based
applications for electrical vehicles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:34.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-17.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">MAS-based
control and management of
electrical car fleets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:34.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-17.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">MAS-based
s</span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"
lang="EN-AU">mart home (building) applications and services</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:34.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-17.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">MAS-based
control and management of s</span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"
lang="EN-AU">mart homes</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">MAS-based
control and management of
appliances<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:34.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-17.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">MAS-based
c</span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"
lang="EN-AU">ommercial and industrial applications for smart
homes</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">Intelligent
Monitoring, Protection, Communication,
Control <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>or Diagnosis in
Smart Grids<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">Agent-based
Approaches in Energy Markets;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">Market
Monitoring and Forecasting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">Novel
Energy Markets and Trading Strategies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">Smart
sensors and advanced metering infrastructure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:24.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Structure of MASGES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">MASGES
will be a full one or two day(s) workshop and demo presentation
and discussion.
It will include several presentation sessions for the accepted
paper and
possible demos as well as invited talks on topics of overall
workshop interest
in order to kick off intense and lively discussions. It is
intended to end the
workshop with a panel/discussion round in which the relevant
results of the
workshop will be discussed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:24.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Submission of papers <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">All
papers and demo descriptions must be formatted according to the
LNCS/LNAI
template (see PAAMS homepage – paper submission for templates
etc.), with a
maximum length of 8-12 pages, including figures and references
for papers and
2-4 pages for demos. Both, accepted papers and demos, will be
included in the
PAAMS 2014 Proceedings, published by Springer. Papers must be
formatted
according to the Springer LNCS formatting instructions and must
be submitted in
electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission System.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:24.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Grants<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">The
BISITE research group (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bisite.usal.es">http://bisite.usal.es</a>) of the University
of Salamanca,
organiser of PAAMS 2014, offers 40 grants to facilitate the
attendance to
doctoral and young doctors both to the event itself (including
Workshops and
Special Sessions) and to the parallel collocated events. More
information can
be found here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.paams.net/grants">http://www.paams.net/grants</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:24.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Review Process<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Submissions
will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 Program Committee members.
Selection
criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact,
originality, technical
soundness, quality of presentation, practical applicability.
Some preference
may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or
important common
themes. In general, papers to be acceptable, must be of
substantial relevance for
the multi-agent systems research community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Demo
applications will be reviewed by the PC chairs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:24.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">Journal publication of excellent
papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
New"" lang="EN-AU">It
is intended to invite authors of excellent papers to submit an
extended version
of their paper to the IOS Multiagent and Grid Systems journal
(MAGS). This
journal has a high reputation and is often classified as a
B-class journal. If
enough high quality papers will be submitted it is planned to
publish them as a
special issue, otherwise as regular papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"
style="margin-top:24.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">Fernando
Lopes, LNEG National Research Institute, Portugal, <a
href="mailto:fernando.lopes@lneg.pt">fernando.lopes@lneg.pt</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-AU">Rainer
Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rainer.unland@icb.uni-due.de">rainer.unland@icb.uni-due.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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Fernández, Universidad
Rey Juan Carlos, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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Sardinha, Technical
University of Lisbon, Portugal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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Symeonidis, University
of Thessaloniki, Greece<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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Hochschule
Offenburg, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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Innovation Centre (EBTIC), UAE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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Augsburg, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Jørgensen , Mærsk
Mc-Kinney Møller Instituttet, Denmark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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Duisburg-Essen, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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Weber, Universität
Duisburg-Essen, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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University of
Craiova, Craiova, Romania<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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Gerstner
Laboratory, Czech Republic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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Stuttgart, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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Aldewereld, Universiteit
Utrecht, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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JW
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hamburg Energie
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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TU Delft, The
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Hagen, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Vasirani, Universidad
Rey Juan Carlos, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Rotterdam School
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Rey Juan Carlos, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Rey Juan Carlos, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Maamar, Zayed
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“Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the
mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!”
“Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler
sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.”
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Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland
University of Duisburg-Essen
Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)
Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and
Knowledge Representation
Schuetzenbahn 70
45117 Essen, Germany
Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421
IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460
Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de
WWW: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/">http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/</a>
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