- From: Atilla Elçi <atilla.elci@emu.edu.tr>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:02:31 +0200
- To: <semantic-web@w3.org>, <mycolleagues@grid.lrg.ufsc.br>, <kaw@science.uva.nl>
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS- Extended firm due date ================== 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2008) July 28 - August 1, 2008, Turku, Finland In Conjunction with 32nd IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008) (http://www.compsac.org/) co-located with IPSJ/IEEE SAINT Conference (http://saintconference.org/). WORKSHOP THEME -------------- Applying Semantic Web Technologies in Research and Development of Software Agents, Mobile Agents and Multi-Agent Systems towards INTEGRATING THE DISTRIBUTED WORLDS. ESAS workshop series aims at garnering the synergy of both technologies by taking up both the semantic web and the agent aspects of the common research issue. Topics of interest span a wide spectrum in both theory and practice of autonomous semantic agents, context-aware intelligent agents, agents as semantic web services, software agents, mobile agents, agent architectures, multi-agent systems, agent communities, cooperation and goal seeking through sharing policy and ontology, safety & security in systems, other QoS issues, and so on. There are several foci of interest: * Software Agents, Mobile Agents, and MAS * Agent, MAS and Semantic Web Technologies * Ontology for Agents and MAS * Platforms for agent and MAS implementation * Other subjects of relevance in semantic software agents, mobile agents, agent-based and multi-agent systems. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- March 17, 2008: Workshop paper submission due (Extended final) April 10, 2008: Workshop paper notification (electronic) April 30, 2008: All final manuscript and author pre-registration due SUBMISSION ---------- Papers must be submitted electronically via the ESAS 2008 Submission Page (http://rs.cs.iastate.edu/COMPSAC2008Workshops/ESAS2008/). Manuscripts will be limited to 6 pages including all figures, tables, and references. The format of submitted papers must follow the IEEE conference proceedings guidelines (i.e., 8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format (PDF: instruct.pdf; DOC: instruct.doc); Layout Guide (PDF: format.pdf; DOC: format.doc; all under ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/). All accepted papers will be published in the electronic conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society, indexed through INSPEC and EI Index (Elsevier's Engineering Information Index), and automatically included in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the workshop for the paper to be included in the proceedings. Each accepted paper must be presented in person by (one of) the author(s). The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for publication in a special issue of the Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering by Blackwell Publishing. ESAS 2008 is a sequel in the very successful ESAS Workshops Series of the IEEE COMPSAC conferences: acceptance ratio has been less than 35% in both ESAS 2006 and ESAS 2007. Please refer to the Post-Workshop Activity section for information on ongoing journal publication. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ------------------- Atilla ELCI (Chairman) Internet Technology Research Center, and Dept. of Computer Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus, via Mersin 10, Turkey Atilla.Elci at emu.edu.tr Mamadou Tadiou KONE (Co-Chair) Dept. of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Laval University, Quebec, Canada Kone.Mamadou at ift.ulaval.ca Mehmet A. ORGUN (Co-Chair) Department of Computing Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia mehmet at comp.mq.edu.au PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Alia ABDELMOTY, Cardiff University, UK Alex ABRAMOVICH, Gordon College, Israel Khalil A. ABUOSBA, Arab Academy of Banking and Financial Sciences, Jordan Grigoris ANTONIOU, University of Crete, Greece Mehmet Emin AYDIN, University of Bedfordshire, UK Costin BADICA, University of Craiova, Romania Susmit BAGCHI, Samsung Electronics (SISO), India Zeki BAYRAM, Eastern Mediterranean Univ., TRNC Tibor BOSSE, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Stijn CHRISTIAENS, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Frank F. P. DIGNUM, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Tharam S. DILLON, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Weichang DU, University of New Brunswick, Canada Peter EKLUND, The University of Wollongong, Australia Riza Cenk ERDUR, Agean University, Turkey Vadim ERMOLAYEV, Zaporozhye State University, Ukraine Martin GAEDKE, Chemnitz University of Technology,Germany Manolis GERGATSOULIS, Ionian University, Greece M.Adeeb GHONAIMY, Ain Shams University, Egypt Aditya K. GHOSE, University of Wollongong, Australia Paolo GIORGINI, University of Trento, Italy Ibrahim GOKCEN, General Electric Co. Global Research Center, USA Guido GOVERNATORI, The University of Queensland, Australia Giancarlo GUIZZARDI, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy Stijn HEYMANS, TU Vienna, Austria, & University Ghent, Belgium Bo HU, University of Southampton, UK Fu-Ming HUANG, National Central University, Taiwan Joris HULSTIJN, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Ismail Khalil IBRAHIM, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Mustafa JARRAR, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Eui-Hyun JUNG, Anyang University, Korea Rajkumar KANNAN,Bishop Heber College, Trichy, India Ahmad KAYED, Applied Science University, Jordan Natalya KEBERLE, Zaporozhye National Univ., Ukraine C. Maria KEET, University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Michel C. A. KLEIN, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Alexander KOSTIN, Eastern Mediterranean Univ., TRNC Aneesh KRISHNA, Engineering University of Wollongong, Australia Peter KROPF, Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland Mark LAST, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Pieter De LEENHEER, Vrije Universiteit, Belgium Constantine MANTRATZIS, University of Westminster, London, UK Brahim MEDJAHED, University of Michigan, USA Thomas MEYER, Meraka Institute, South Africa Vitaliy MEZHUEV, Berdyansk State University, Ukraine Rym Z. MILI, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Lars MONCH, FernUniversitat in Hagen, Germany Masoud MOHAMMADIAN, University of Canberra, Australia Maurice PAGNUCCO, The University of New South Wales, Australia Michal PECHOUCEK, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic R. RAJESH, Bharathiar University, India Dumitru ROMAN, STI / University of Innsbruck, Austria Ferat SAHIN, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Markus SCHAAL, Bilkent Univ., Turkey Chattrakul SOMBATTHEERA, Mahasarakham University, Thailand Michael STOLLBERG, DERI Innsbruck, Austria Markus STUMPTNER, University of South Australia, Australia Kaile SU, Peking University, China Vijayan SUGUMARAN,Oakland University, USA York SURE, SAP Research, Germany Andreas TOLK, Old Dominion University, USA Jan TREUR, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands M. Osman UNALIR, Egean University, Turkey Rainer UNLAND, University of Essen, Germany Laurentiu VASILIU, DERI Galway, Ireland Dirk VERMEIR, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Lee Eng WAH, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore Levent YILMAZ, Auburn University, USA Sule YILDIRIM, Headmark University College, Norway Pinar YOLUM, Bogazici University, Turkey Mohammed ZAKI, Al-Azhar University, Egypt (being updated) POST-WORKSHOP ACTIVITY ---------------------- The authors of the best selected papers of ESAS 2008 and 2007 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in the Special Issue on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems in the Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering by Blackwell Publishing (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0266-4720&site=1). The full CFP for the special issue is available through the Journal site and from the chairmen. A special issue of the best papers of ESAS 2006 has been finalized and awaiting publication in the first issue of 2009 with the Multiagent and Grid Systems - An International Journal, IOS Press, ISSN 1574-1702. GENERAL INQUIRIES ----------------- For updated information, please refer to the ESAS entry through Workshops tab at www.compsac.org or contact the workshop chairperson Atilla.Elci at EMU.edu.tr. Dated: March 9, 2008.
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