[agents] ASCWKM Workshop @ IEEE ICDIM 2009

[Massimo Cossentino]

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
http://www.icdim.org/default.php

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)



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  
engineering 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
Carole    Bernon, IRIT,    France
Anarosa    Brandão, ITL,  Brasil
Valerie    Camps, IRIT,    France
Ricardo     Choren, IME, Brasil
Ernesto    Damiani, DTI, Italy
Jacques    Ferber, LIRMM, France
Ruben    Fuentes, SIP, Spain
Jorge    Gomes-Sanz    SIP,   Spain
Zahia    Guessoum, LIP6, France
Miniar    Hemaissia-Jeannin, Thales, France
Abderraffiâa    Koukam, SeT, France
Gaëlle    Lortal, Thales, France
Vito    Morreale, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Italy
Andrea    Omicini, DEIS, Italy
Luca    Sabatucci, IRST - FBK, Italy
Valeria    Seidita,    DII-University of Palermo,    Italy
Ludger    Van Elst, KMRG, Germany

  Other researchers/practitioners in the field have been contacted and  
their answer is 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