[agents] ATOP 2009 Workshop for AAMAS

[James Odell]

                            Call for Participation
 
                 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
                                12 May 2009
      
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
 
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