[agents] CFP - Agent Supported Collaborative Work for Knowledge Management

[hilaire]

Second International Workshop on
Agent Supported Collaborative Work for Knowledge Management (ASCWKM 2009)

In conjunction with the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Digital 
Information Management (ICDIM 2009)

November, 2009, Michigan, USA

Workshop organizers

Contact Point: Vincent Hilaire vincent.hilaire at utbm.fr

Workshop Chairs:

•	Massimo Cossentino, ICAR-CNR (Italy) and UTBM (France)
•	David Faure, Thales Group (France)
•	Vincent Hilaire, UTBM (France)
•	Sebastian Rodriguez, FRT-UTN (Argentine)

workshop website: http://set.utbm.fr/index.php?pge=402

1 - Description

Building on top a first successful edition in 2007, a second edition of 
the ACW workshop is now being proposed. This new edition resumes the 
topics proposed in the previous edition of the workshop and it aims at 
renewing the success in terms of quality of submitted paper and 
discussion during the event. It is now more focussed on knowledge 
management issues underlying collaborative works and it aims at a 
broader range of applications from business intelligence to eLearning.
In today’s challenging global market, companies have to innovate in 
order to improve competitiveness and business performance. They must 
bring innovative products to market more effectively and more quickly to 
maximize customer interest and sales. The pressures to reduce time, 
improve product quality, and lower costs have not gone away; they are 
being reaffirmed and folded into programs that focus on delivering the 
“right” product. Companies must continue to enter new markets with 
innovative products. This requires leveraging and reusing the 
product-related intellectual capital created by partners working 
together. Business innovation must occur in several dimensions: project 
organization, product definition, production engineering, ergonomics 
design, environmental impacts, etc.
Several approaches exist for supporting companies in this innovation 
challenge. They are mainly based upon Knowledge Management techniques. 
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems may offer solutions to model (multiple) 
organisations involved in collaborative design activities. Agents may 
also support the capitalization process and constitute knowledge bases 
transparently for the users.
This workshop will focus on the use of agents and multi-agent systems 
for modelling and supporting collaborative activities in all working 
contexts, such as, design activities, eLearning, etc.
2 - Topics

A non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop includes the following:

•	Methods and Models:
1.	Agent based CSCW
2.	Agent oriented analysis and design methods for CSCW systems
3.	Agent based models of collaborative activities
4.	Ontologies and theories about collaborative activities
5.	Agent based capitalization
6.	Agent based reuse of knowledge
7.	Collaborative design of products and software
8.	Formal models of agent-based CSCW
9.	Organizational applications of agent use in CSCW
•	Implementation of CSCW systems:
1.	Agent-oriented architecture for multi-enterprise or 
multi-organization collaborations
2.	Architectures and platforms for agent-based CSCW deployment
3.	Human-computer interaction in CSCW
4.	CAD and virtual reality design-helper agents
5.	Practical application examples
•	Annotations
1.	Agent based automatic annotations techniques
2.	Semantic annotations
3.	Reasoning techniques for annotations
•	eLearning
1.	Agent based eLearning
2.	Agent Knowledge capitalization and reuse in an eLearning context
•	Industrial cases

3 - Program Committee:

Emmanuel Adam, LAMIH, France	
Frédéric Armetta, LEIS,	France
Achraf Ben Miled, SeT France
Carole	Bernon, IRIT, France
Anarosa	Brandão, ITL, Brasil
Valerie	Camps, IRIT, France	
Ricardo Choren, IME, Brasil
Ernesto	Damiani, DTI, Italy
Jorge Gomes-Sanz, SIP, Spain
Zahia Guessoum, LIP6, France
Miniar	Hemaissia-Jeannin, Thales, France
Abderraffiâa Koukam, SeT, France
Gaëlle Lortal, Thales, France
Davy Monticolo, SeT, France
Vito Morreale, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Italy
Andrea Omicini, DEIS, Italy
Ludger Van Elst, KMRG, Germany


Other researchers/practitioners in the field have been contacted and 
theirs answers are waited soon.

4 - Submission

Submissions must be made through the submission website 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ascwkm09.
You are invited to submit full length papers, not exceeding 4-6 pages 
(3000-4000 words) in length, in two-column format including diagrams and 
references, following IEEE publication guidelines. Papers that do not 
follow these guidelines may be rejected without consideration of their 
merits. Papers must be submitted electronically to the contact point in 
PDF format.  All accepted papers will be published by IEEE and fully 
indexed by IEEE Xplore.
All papers will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members 
on the basis of technical quality, originality, clarity, and relevance 
to the track topics listed below. Accepted papers will be published in 
the conference proceedings. At least one author of each paper must 
attend the workshop to present the paper.
Camera Ready papers should follow the IEEE conference templates . 
(http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/confstandards/pdfexpress/index.html)

5 – Important dates

Submission deadline : june 30
Notification : july 31
Final date for camera-ready copy : september 1
Conference : november 1-4