[agents] CFP - AWeSoMe'08

[Gonzalo Méndez]

[Apologies for cross and multiple posting]



4th International Workshop On Agents and Web Services
Merging in Distributed Environments (AWeSoMe '08)

Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 9 - 14, 2008

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=awesome2008cfp

MOTIVATION

Web services are a rapidly expanding approach to building distributed
software systems across networks such as the Internet. A Web service is
an operation typically addressed via a URI, declaratively described
using widely accepted standards, and accessed via platform-independent
XML-based messages.

Agents, on the other hand, are autonomous software entities that inhabit
an environment and interact with each other in order to achieve their
own goals on behalf of their owners.

Agents and multi-agent systems can benefit from this combination, and
can be used for web service discovery, use, composition and
implementation. In addition, web services and multi-agent systems bear
certain similarities, such as a component-like behaviour, that can help
to make their integration much easier.

The AWESOME workshop is an interdisciplinary workshop based on research
and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the
development of an intelligent service Web.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Possible topics include, but are not limited to::

     * Agent-based modelling and design techniques to address problems
in web service system development;
     * Agent-based applications to web services;
     * Agent-based resource and service management in grid environments;
     * Architectures and infrastructure for distributed agent- or
service- based frameworks;
     * Architectures for supporting agents and web services within the
semantic web;
     * Autonomic computing applications to web servcices;
     * Capability matching and matchmakers;
     * Communication patterns for web services;
     * Composing agents and web services (on the grid);
     * Distributed Environments and grid environments
     * Intelligent matchmaking and service brokering;
     * Interoperability of web services;
     * Issues of trust for web services, agents and ontologies;
     * Multi-agent techniques to describing, organizing, and discovering
web services;
     * Process modeling for service/agent composition, orchestration and
coordination;
     * Scaleable service composition for heterogeneous environments;
     * Security support for agents and services, and agent-based
approaches to service security;
     * Software engineering for agent-based semantic web services;
     * Supporting service discovery and service management using
agent-based approaches;
     * Use of agent-based approaches for web service personalization;
     * Use of context and conversations for Web services composition;
     * Use of web service infrastructure and tools for building
multi-agent systems;


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline  	June 15, 2008
Paper Submission Deadline 	June 30, 2008
Acceptance Notification 	August 15, 2008
Camera Ready Due 		August 25, 2008
Registration Due 		August 25, 2008
OTM Conferences 		November 9 - 14, 2008

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers submitted to AWeSOMe’08 must not have been accepted for
publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference.

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, clarity of expression. All
submissions must be in English. Submissions should be made in PDF format
and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Detailed
formatting instructions will be announced

Additionally, the best papers of the workshop will be invited to submit
revised and extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the
Multiagent and Grid Systems (MAGS) journal:
http://www.iospress.nl/html/15741702.php


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

     * Jörg Denzinger
       Department of Computer Science
       University of Calgary
       Calgary, Alberta, Canada
       Tel: (+1) 403 220 5574
       Fax: (+1) 403 284 4707
       Email: denzinge at cpsc.ucalgary.ca

     * Pilar Herrero
       Facultad de Informática
       Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
       Madrid (Spain)
       Tel: (+34) 91.336.74.56
       Fax: (+34) 91.336.65.95E
       Email: pherrero at fi.upm.es

     * Gonzalo Méndez
       Facultad de Informática
       Universidad Complutense de Madrid
       Madrid (Spain)
       Tel: (+34) 91.394.75.99
       Fax: (+34) 91.394.75.29
       Email: gmendez at fdi.ucm.es

     * Rainer Unland
       Inst. for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)
       University of Duisburg-Essen
       Essen, Germany
       Tel: (+49) 201-183 3421
       Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460
       Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de