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Text Box: Pervasive Computing names a new wave in computing, where the personal computing era appears when technology recedes into the background of our lives. The widespread use of new mobile technology implementing wireless communications such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smart phones enables a new class of advanced applications and heightens the demand for distributed problem solving. In many cases, the design and development of effective services should take into account the characteristics of the context from which a service is requested. The challenges in Pervasive Computing are dominated by i) the ubiquity of a vast manifold of heterogeneous, small, embedded, and mobile devices, which are all enabled to communicate in a seamless way; ii) the self-organization and evolution of their population and interoperation, the ability of perceiving and interpreting their situation locally or via distribute communications; iii) their overcoming of traditional end-to-end paradigm for connections and their ability of taking advantage of communication opportunities; iv) the autonomy of their goal-oriented behaviour, the dynamicity and context-adaptation of services they offer, the ad-hoc interoperability of services, and the different modes of user interaction upon those services. Pervasive Computing Environments are physical environments saturated with computing and communication, yet gracefully integrated with human users These environments involve the construction of massively distributed computing systems that feature a large number of autonomous entities (or agents). These entities could be devices, applications, services, databases, users or other kinds of agents. Agent-oriented technologies and methodologies can be a natural fit for Pervasive Computing. Multi-agent systems are formed from a collection of independent software entities whose collective skills can be applied in complex and real-time domains. The target of such systems is to demonstrate how goal directed, robust and optimal behaviour can arise from interactions between individual autonomous intelligent software agents. These software entities exhibit characteristics like autonomy, responsiveness, pro-activeness, and social ability. Agent-based ubiquitous computing can benefit from joining the agent-based technology and the extensive usage of distributed functionality. It also brings together the research communities in computer science, artificial intelligence, and engineering. This workshop on Agent Technologies for Pervasive Communities aims to gather input and feedback concerning the above challenges, through the collection of the high-quality contributions that reflect and advance the state-of-the art in agent-based ubiquitous and pervasive application systems. We invite submissions that address theoretical, technical, and practical issues of agent-based ubiquitous and pervasive computing.      

Text Box: The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Agent Technologies for Pervasive Communities (ATPC 2009)