[agents] CFP: 8th International Workshop on Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration

[Usman Wajid]

Call for Papers

8th International Workshop on Agent-based Computing for Enterprise
Collaboration

at IEEE WETICE 2010

Dates: June 28 - 30, 2010
Location: Larissa (Greece)

http://www.acec.portals.mbs.ac.uk/
http://www.wetice.org/

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Important Dates

Deadline for Papers:                       March 02, 2010

Notification of Acceptance:         April 02, 2010

Full version of accepted 
papers due to IEEE:                         April 14, 2010

WETICE-2009:                   June 28 - 30, 2010

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OVERVIEW

The autonomy and intelligence of software agents have greatly enhanced
automation in many operational domains. A major benefit of using agents is
the ability to assist in the collaboration among humans and software
mechanisms, alike. Agent-enacted collaboration can be extremely helpful in
areas such as Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Workflow and Supply
Chain Management, Automation in Virtual Enterprises, and Automated
Distributed Component composition.

This year the Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration (ACEC)
workshop will concentrate on two main themes: 

* Agent-based Services 
* Agent-based Solutions for Dynamic Collaborations 

These two themes represent important areas where software agents can
leverage their distributed nature along with their proactive and autonomous
characteristics to provide solutions for complex problems which are
difficult to address using traditional/existing technologies.

With the popularity and pervasiveness of services in the emerging digital
world, enterprises must carefully evaluate how to make their services openly
accessible. Furthermore, it is important for enterprises to learn how to
exploit the services of others while taking into account the unexpected
circumstances and changing scenarios, which frequently occur in business
ecosystems. 

In both of these (above given) contexts, software agents can play an
important role. In this respect, ACEC 201o intends to bring together
researchers and practitioners to discuss the key issues, approaches, open
problems, innovative applications, and trends in this research area. We
enthusiastically solicit papers that address agent mediation and management
of services and/or products of on-line businesses.

TOPICS

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

* Agent-mediated workflow, supply chain, or VE
* Methodologies and tools to support agent collaboration 
* Agent-based infrastructures for dynamic collaboration 
* Agent-based service architectures and infrastructures 
* Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on agents 
* Services for dynamic agent collaboration 
* Agent-to-Human service interactions 
* Agent-mediated service integration 

SUBMISSION of PAPERS

Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted
elsewhere, and references to related state-of-the art work. Authors of
accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Papers
up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted.
Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single-spaced, two columns,
10pt Times/Roman font. Papers should include a title, the name and
affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words and no more than
eight keywords. Please submit papers, in PDF or PS format, to
acec2010 at mbs.ac.uk by March 02, 2010. All submitted papers will be
peer-reviewed by a minimum of three program committee members. The accepted
papers and the summary report produced by each group will be published in
the post-conference proceedings (to be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press). 

If you have further questions or remarks, please do not hesitate to contact
the workshop organizers. 

WORKSHOP ORGANISATION

Chair ACEC'2010: 

* Usman Wajid
Manchester Business School,
The University of Manchester. UK 
E-mail: acec2010 at mbs.ac.uk

 

Steering Committee:

* Federico Bergenti - Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le
Telecommunicazioni, Italy
* M. Brian Blake - Universit of Notre Dame, USA
* Giacomo Cabri - Universita'di Modena e Reggion Emilia, Italy

Programme Committee (confirmed so far):

* Cesar Marin - Manchester Business School, UK
* Habin Lee Brunel - University London, UK
* Jorg P. Muller - Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
* Nikolay Mehandjiev - University of Manchester, UK
* Ramon F. Brena - Centre for Intelligent Computation and Robotics, Mexico

For additional information, please visit http://www.acec.portals.mbs.ac.uk/
or contact the workshop chair using acec2010 at mbs.ac.uk