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P R E L I M I N A R Y C A LL F O R P A P E R S The Workshop on SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE) http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase/ to be held at the Seventh International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2008) Estoril, Portugal, May 12 - 16, 2008 http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/ DESCRIPTION The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technology, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, and adaptability. The Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE) workshop continues the theme of previous SOCASE workshop successfully held at AAMAS’07, the SOCABE workshops held at AAMAS’06, AAMAS’05 and the WSABE workshops held at AAMAS’04 and AAMAS’03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide spectrum of issues of the cross section between agent-based and service-oriented paradigms. TOPICS We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of agent technology, Semantic Web services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems - Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and Semantic Web development - Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent system design, development and integration - Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes - Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering - Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography - Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery - Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements - Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems - Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned - Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution - Ontology generation, learning and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION Submission is to be done electronically: the detailed instructions can be found on the SOCASE'08 web page http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase/. Contact Quoc Bao Vo (bvo@ict.swin.edu.au) for help if required. The papers should be formatted according to LNCS specification and submitted as PDF files. Instructions and templates can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Two types of submissions are available: regular submissions of length 3000-4000 words (approx. 8-12 printed pages) and position papers of length 1200-2000 words (approx. 4-6 printed pages). Position papers (and some regular papers) may be presented as part of themed discussion panels; preference may be given to position papers that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics. Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers must be of real relevance to the multi-agent research community. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Similarly to the previous year the proceedings are planned to be published with Springer-Verlag’s LNCS, subject to appropriate number and quality of submissions. A selection of best papers will also be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to a special issue of a major international journal. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline 1 February 2008 Acceptance notification 25 February 2006 Camera-ready deadline 05 March 2006 Proceedings ready 19 March 2006 Workshop held 12 or 13 May 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ryszard Kowalczyk Swinburne University, Australia Michael Huhns University of South Carolina, USA Matthias Klusch German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany Zakaria Maamar Zayed University, UAE Quoc Bao Vo Swinburne University, Australia (point of contact: bvo@ict.swin.edu.au) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Youcef Baghdadi, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada Brian M. Blake, Georgetown University, USA Peter Braun, The Agent Factory GmbH, Germany Paul A. Buhler, College of Charleston, USA Bernard Burg, Panasonic Research, USA Jiangbo Dang, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Manuel Núñez García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Mauro Gaspari, University of Bologna, Italy Karthik Gomadam, University of Georgia, USA Slimane Hammoudi, ESEO, France Jingshan Huang, University of South Carolina, USA W.J. van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Patrick Hung, University of Ontario, Canada N.C. Narendra, IBM India Research Lab, India Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Julian A. Padget, University of Bath, UK Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales, Australia Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy Terry Payne, University of Southampton, UK Giovanna Petrone, University of Torino, Italy Debbie Richards, Macquarie University, Australia Marwan Sabbouh, The MITRE Corporation, USA Quan Z. Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China Huaglory Tianfield, Caledonian University Glasgow, UK Kunal Verma, Accenture Technology Labs Palo Alto, USA Steve Wilmott, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
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