(Multi-)Agent Systems in E-Business: Concepts, Technologies and Applications - MASeB’2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Session at KES'2006 conference October 9-11, 2006. Bournemouth, UK http://software.ucv.ro/~badica_costin/maseb2006/ Final Call for Papers --------------- Agents and multi-agent systems are an emergent technology that is expected to have a significant impact in realizing the vision of a global and informational rich services network to support dynamic discovery and interaction of digital enterprises. Moreover, the agent paradigm is expected to give an impetus to all e-business areas including e-commerce, logistics, marketing, manufacturing, recommender systems, tourism, negotiation, a.o. Significant work has already been done for more than a decade since agents have been claimed to be the next breakthrough in software development, resulting in powerfull multi-agent platforms and innovative e-business applications. However, it is currently appreciated that for various reasons agent technologies have not achieved yet that level of maturity as required by advanced e-business applications. Many difficult research challenges remain, and much work is needed to adapt relevant existing agent technologies to the requirements of the new generation e-business systems. The special session welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of agent and multi-agent systems in e-business from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced agent technologies and innovative applications. Topics include, but are not limited to, broadly understood: - (Multi-)Agent concepts, models and architectures for e-business - (Multi-)Agent technologies for e-business including frameworks, benchmarking and performances - (Multi-)Agent languages and algorithms for e-business - (Multi-)Agent applications and experiences in e-business .... Paper Submission ---------------- For paper format and submission please follow the guidelines of the main conference KES’2006. Proceedings will be published with Springer LNAI. You can submit our paper at this URL: http://kes2006is.prosemanager.com/submitpaper.asp Note that our session has indicative IS51. Important Dates --------------- March 12, 2006 Full paper submission April 9, 2006 Notification of acceptance May 1, 2006 Final (camera ready) paper due June 1, 2006 Pre-registration with payment Session Organizers ------------------ Costin Badica, http://software.ucv.ro/~badica_costin University of Craiova, Romania, badica_costin@software.ucv.ro Maria Ganzha, http://www.ganzha.euh-e.edu.pl/ Elblag University of Humanities and Economics, Poland, ganzha@euh-e.edu.pl Marcin Paprzycki, http://mpaprzycki.swps.edu.pl Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland, marcin.paprzycki@swps.edu.pl International Program Committee ------------------------------- Sattar Almaliky, Alnahreen University, Iraq Rafal Angryk, Montana State University, USA Giacomo Cabri, University di Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy Brahim Chaib-draa, Laval University, Canada Gabriel Ciobanu, Univerity of Iasi, Romania Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Research, USA Chris Fox, University of Essex, UK Stan Franklin, University of Memphis, USA Matjaz Gams, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas, USA Liviu Joita, Cardiff University, UK Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Australia Kelley Kranzler, KAN Research, USA Sofiane Labidi, Federal University of Maranha, Brazil Renato Levy, Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Beniamino di Martino, University of Naples, Italy Olivier Marin, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, France Edward Nawarecki, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland Viorel Negru, Institute eAustria, Romania Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Inst. for AI, Austria Thomas E. Potok, Oak Ridge National Lab. USA Mihaela Oprea, University Petroleum-Gas Ploiesti, Romania Shahram Rahimi, Southern Illinois University, USA Stanislaw Stanek, Katowice University of Economics, Poland Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Laurentiu Vasiliu, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland Jacek Wachowicz, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Tatyana Yakhno, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Hong Zhou, Saint Joseph College, USA