[agents] Agent-based Technologies and applications for enterprise interOPerability - ATOP 2009

[James Odell]

                   Call for Papers

          Agent-based Technologies and applications
               for enterprise interOPerability
                  ATOP 2009

          (http://www-ags.dfki.uni-sb.de/~kuf/atop)

              Workshop to be held at the
          Eighth International Joint Conference on
         Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009)
         (http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/workshops.html)

                  Budapest, Hungary
                     11 May 2009
        (date still to be confirmed please check Web pages for changes)
                   
MOTIVATION

Today's  enterprises must  adapt  their  software processes  to  work in
open
settings,  such as  online marketplaces  and, more  generally, the  Web,
where
business  relationships exhibit  a  high degree  of  dynamism. Moreover,
open
settings  are   characterized  by  the  autonomy  and   heterogeneity  of
the
enterprises.  In such  settings, interoperability is a key  concern: how do
we
ensure that diverse enterprises can  work together toward a mutually
desirable
end?

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  infrastructure  level   (the  underlying  information  and
communication
technologies  and  systems).  Agents,  Model-Driven  Architecture  (MDA),
and
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) are complementary approaches to
addressing
the enterprise interoperability  problem.  Agents enable dynamic
collaboration
and  orchestration  in changing  and  unpredictable  situations; MDA
provides
mechanisms  that generate  artifacts  for different  platforms;  SOA gives
us
late-binding  interoperability  between   business  process  requirements
and
providers of  service implementations.  This  workshop aims to  bring
together
research that  combines ideas from MDA  and SOA with agents  in presenting
new
solutions for enterprise interoperability.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

We  would like  to focus  the  ATOP 2009  around modeling  and metamodels
for
interoperability  in agent-based systems  and business  applications.
Ideally
submitted  papers  should  deal   with  model-driven  agent  technologies
and
methodologies 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
     * normative environments for enterprise agents interoperability
     * 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
     * business process modeling, enactment and 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


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 at dfki.de


Acceptable formats  are PDF  and PostScript.  It  is planned to  structure
the
workshops into  invited talks, technical presentations  and panel
discussions.
A publication of  selected workshop papers is planned  in Springer's new
LNBIP
series.       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  2 2009
Notifications sent           February 24 2009
Final papers due           March 11 2009
Workshop                      May  11 2009 (date still to be confirmed)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Arne-Jorgen Berre, SINTEF, Norway
Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany
James Odell, CSC, USA
Joerg P. Mueller, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Sahin Albayrak, TU Berlin, Germany
Bernhard Bauer, University Augsburg, Germany
Amit Chopra, University of Trento, Italy
Michael Georgeff, Monash University, Australia
Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland
Axel Hahn, University Oldenburg, Germany
Christian Hahn, DFKI, Germany
Oystein Haugen, SINTEF, Norway
Sebastian Kaemper, IWi, Germany
Stefan Kirn, Hohenheim University, Germany
Margaret Lyell, IAI, USA
Saber Mansour, Oslo Software, France
Nikolay Mehandjiev, Manchester Business School, UK
Michele Missikoff, LEKS; IASI-CNR, Italy
Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
Herve Panetto, University Nancy, France
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Ralph Ronnquist, Intendico Pty. Ltd., Australia
Rainer Ruggaber, SAP, Germany
Omair Shafiq, Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, Austria
Iain Stalker, Unversity of Teesside, UK
Ingo Timm, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Joerg Ziemann, DFKI-IWi, Germany
Ingo Zinnikus, DFKI, Germany