3rd IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2008)

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS- Extended firm due date 
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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
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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 
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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
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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 
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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
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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
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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.

Received on Monday, 10 March 2008 21:03:23 UTC