- From: Ingo Mueller <imueller@ict.swin.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:08:37 +1100
- To: <imueller@ict.swin.edu.au>
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
The Workshop on
Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE 2007)
www.ict.swin.edu.au/conferences/socase2007
to be held at
The Sixth International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007)
Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i.
May 14-18, 2007
www.aamas2007.org
DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent
significant
developments at the intersections of Multiagent Systems, Semantic
Technology,
and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of
techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from
Multiagent 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 workshop
(SOCASE) continues the theme of previous SOCABE workshop successfully held
at
AAMAS'06, AAMAS'05 and 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.
SOCASE 2007 is organized by an extended Organizing Committee giving the
workshop
an additional focus on research in ontology-related topics of
Service-oriented
Multiagent Systems.
TOPICS
We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology,
Semantic Technologies, 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 Multiagent
System
design and development
* Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery,
and
brokering
* Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography
* 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
learnt
* Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration,
composition, and execution
* Ontology learning and ontology reasoning
* Ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents
* Information retrieval and semantic integration by agents
* Automatic generation of ontologies
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Submission is to be done electronically on
www.ict.swin.edu.au/conferences/socase2007.
Submitted papers should be formatted according to ACM specifications. ACM
style
guides, as well as templates and style sheets for Microsoft Word,
WordPerfect,
and LaTeX can be found on
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.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).
The only formats allowed for electronic submission are PostScript or PDF.
Papers
will not be accepted in any other format (e.g., MS Word). However, we
strongly
encourage the submission in PDF format.
Deadline for workshop papers is February 5, 2007, midnight -Hawaii time-
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection
criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality,
technical
soundness, and 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 Multiagent
research
community.
Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed
to
the first author by March 5, 2007. Note that at least one author of each
accepted paper is required to register and to attend the workshop in order
to
present the work. Accepted papers will be made available in electronic form
prior to the workshop and a printed collection will be available at the
workshop. As exercised with previous workshops' best papers, the SOCASE 2007
workshop proceedings may form the basis of a journal special issue, subject
to
appropriate number and quality of submissions.
IMPORTANT DATES
February 5, 2007 workshop paper submission
March 5, 2007 notification of accepted papers
March 19, 2007 camera-ready paper submission
March 26, 2007 workshop proceedings submission
May 14-15, 2007 AAMAS-2007 workshops
WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE
The workshop will aim to foster discussion and develop action outcomes on
key
issues relating to designing, building, and managing systems using software
agents, ontologies, and services. In addition to regular presentations, a
number
of discussion panels on identified important themes are also planned.
Attendance may be restricted by the venue. A separate call for participation
will be distributed at about the time of acceptance notification. If
attendance
needs to be limited then preference will be given first to presenters and
next
to other authors who submitted.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Jingshan Huang University of South Carolina, USA
Ryszard Kowalczyk Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Zakaria Maamar Zayed University Dubai, United Arab Emirates
David Martin SRI International, USA
Ingo Mueller Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Suzette Stoutenburg The MITRE Corporation, USA
Katia Sycara Carnegie Mellon University, USA
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Esma Aimeur University of Montreal, Canada
Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Yacine Atif United Arab Emirates University, United Arab
Emirates
Youcef Baghdadi Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Djamal Benslimane University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Jamal Bentahar Concordia University Montreal, Canada
Brian Blake Georgetown University, USA
Peter Braun the agent factory GmbH, Germany
Paul Buhler College of Charleston, USA
Bernard Burg Panasonic Research, USA
Jiangbo Dang Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Ian Dickinson HP Laboratories Bristol, UK
Chirine Ghedira University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Karthik Gomadam University of Georgia, USA
Slimane Hammoudi ESEO, France
Jingshan Huang University of South Carolina, USA
Patrick Hung University of Ontario, Canada
Nafaa Jabeur University of Windsor, Canada
Jugal Kalita University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
Mikko Laukkanen TeliaSonera, Finland
Sandy Liu NRC Institute for Information Technology, USA
Peter Mork The MITRE Corporation, USA
Nanjangud C Narendra IBM India Research Lab, India
Manuel Nunez Garcia Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Leo Obrst The MITRE Corporation, USA
Julian Padget University of Bath, UK
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 The University of Adelaide, Australia
Pavel Shvaiko University of Trento, Italy
Suzette Stoutenburg The MITRE Corporation, USA
Eleni Stroulia University of Alberta, Canada
Jie Tang Tsinghua University, China
Philippe Thiran University of Namur, Belgium
Huaglory Tianfield Caledonian University Glasgow, UK
Willem-Jan van den Heuvel Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Kunal Verma Accenture Technology Labs Palo Alto, USA
Steve Wilmott Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Soe-Tsyr Yuan National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan
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