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Call for Papers
Agent-based Technologies and applications
for enterprise interOPerability
ATOP 2006
(http://www.dfki.de/~kuf/atop/)
Workshop to be held at the
Fifth International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006)
(http://www.fun.ac.jp/aamas2006/)
Future University-Hakodate, Japan
8th May 2006
MOTIVATION
Today's enterprises operate in a dynamic environment which is characterized by
global outsourcing, shrinking product life-cycles, and unstable demand. To
prosper in this environment, enterprises face a growing need to share
information and to collaborate with each other at all levels of the value
chain. As organizations are gradually transforming into "networked
organizations", interoperability becomes the main challenge to realize the
vision of seamless business interaction across organizational boundaries.
Interoperability problems occur at different levels: at the business level
(how organizations do business together, what needs to be described and how?),
at the knowledge level (different formats, schemas, and ontologies), and at
the level of the underlying information and communication technologies (ICT)
and systems.
Agent technologies provide a cross-cutting approach promising to enable
intelligent and proactive automation, adaptive planning and execution,
decentralized coordination, and semantic interoperability. The Model-Driven
Architecture (MDA) is another promising approach for the support of
interoperability due to its promise of providing consistent models at
different abstraction layers with well-defined mappings in between these
layers. As a third thread of activity Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
try to reach interoperability, focusing upon, but not restricted to, the
information and communication technology (ICT) level. The main contribution
and goal of SOA is to achieve loose coupling among software entities
representing business objects (processes, organizational units, etc.).
Agents, MDA, and SOA provide complementary solution components to parts of the
enterprise interoperability problems. It is unlikely that any of these
approaches will succeed stand-alone in achieving the degree of
interoperability that will be necessary to successfully construct, run, and
optimize networked organizations. It is rather likely that a combination of
these basic technologies will evolve in the next years to provide an
appropriate basis for interoperability. Therefore the workshop aims at
bringing together researchers and foster interaction and collaboration to work
jointly on solutions to achieve interoperability.
ATOP is set up as a workshop series which was first introduced to AAMAS in
2005. The workshop focuses on technologies that support interoperability in
networked organizations, on successful applications of these technologies, and
on lessons learned. The main goal is to discuss in how far agent technologies
can support interoperability in this context and to compare current trends in
the development of agent technologies with recent developments in
service-oriented and model-driven system design with respect to their ability
to solve interoperability problems. A publication of selected workshop papers
is planned in Springer's LNAI series.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
Ideally submitted papers should deal with agent technologies in the context of:
* simulation and validation of business systems
* decision-support in value creation networks
* enterprise and business process modeling
* case studies of implemented interoperability solutions and
systems
* coordination and negotiation in distributed business networks
* cross-organizational business processes
* decentralized and peer-to-peer models and enactment of
business processes
* goal-driven and adaptive business process management
* semantic annotations of business process descriptions
* intelligent enterprise application integration
* intelligent execution, monitoring, management, and optimization
of business processes
* service-oriented architectures and related topics like service
choreography, orchestration, composition, brokering, and mediation
* autonomic computing and adaptive autonomous architectures
* model-driven architectures for business processes and systems
* models and meta-models for agent-based systems
* platform-independent models and their relation to agent models
* model-to-model and model-to-text transformations
* knowledge representations and ontologies in the context of
(collaborative) business processes
* agent communication languages and standards
* self-organization and adaptation in the context of interoperable systems
While discussing these topics, papers should make clear in how far the
technologies or the proposed approach is able to foster interoperability of
business systems. While the discussion of agent technologies is recommended, a
proposal of new techniques or technologies to increase interoperability of
business applications without direct reference to agent technologies is
acceptable in exceptional cases. Still it is recommended that such work should
be related to agent-oriented approaches if such approaches already
exist. Researchers interested in submitting a paper to ATOP are encouraged to
visit the Web page http://www.dfki.de/~kuf/atop/ and check the paper regarding
the topics that were discussed during the ATOP 2005 workshop. Workshops
specializing in some of the topics mentioned in the above list will be held at
AAMAS 2006. Authors of papers that are dealing with such topics without much
discussion of interoperability aspects are encouraged to submit their papers
to the more specialized workshops. The workshop organizers will closely
collaborate in the evaluation of the papers. Therefore, multiple submissions
do not increase the chance of a paper to be accepted.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Authors should submit original research papers (must not exceed 12 pages
including all figures and tables) including an abstract of about 200 words or
position papers (must not exceed 3 pages). In any case submission of
preliminary abstracts some time before the official submission deadline is
very much appreciated. All submissions must be sent electronically to
Klaus.Fischer@dfki.de
Acceptable formats are PDF and PostScript. It is planned to structure the
workshops into invited talks, technical presentations and panel
discussions. Formatting instructions can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and should be strictly
followed. The first page should include the full name and contact details of
at least one author (email and full postal address).
IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions due February 1 2006
Notifications sent February 19 2006
Final papers due March 13 2006
Workshop May 8 2006
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Arne-Jorgen Berre, SINTEF, Norway
Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany
Joerg P. Mueller, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Asier Azaceta, European Software Institute, Spain
Sahin Albayrak, TU Berlin, Germany
Bernhard Bauer, University Augsburg, Germany
Gorka Benguria, European Software Institute, Spain
Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University, Germany
Amit Chopra, NC State University, USA
Michael Georgeff, Monash University, Australia
Timo Kahl, IWi, Germany
David Kinny, Melbourne University, Australia
Stefan Kirn, Hohenheim University, Germany
Michele Missikoff, LEKS, Italy
Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
Alan Powell, IBM UK Labs, England
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Ralph Ronnquist, Agent Oriented Software, Australia
Rainer Ruggaber, SAP, Germany
Carles Sierra, IIIA, Spain
Donald Steiner, Quantum Leap Innovations, USA
Joerg Ziemann, IWi, Germany
Ingo Zinnikus, DFKI, Germany
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