[agents] ServAgents 2010 - Deadline Extension - September 20

[Hoa Dam]

The First International Workshop on Services and Agents (ServAgents 2010)
In conjunction with PRIMA 2010
Kokata, India, November 12 - 15, 2010
http://www.dsl.uow.edu.au/servagents2010/

*** The paper submission deadline has been extended to the 20th of September. ***
*** News: In-principle agreement obtained from Springer for an LNCS/LNAI post-proceedings. ***

CALL FOR PAPERS 

There are strong connections between intelligent agents and services, and there is increasing crossover between works in the two communities. The new area of services (both in the sense of service science and service-oriented computing) offers exciting new application opportunities for both the concepts and methodologies of intelligent agent systems. Techniques developed in the agent research community promise to have a strong impact on this fast growing field. For instance, agent-oriented modeling techniques can influence the development of service modeling techniques. Agent technology may offer a solution to the critical business imperative of service delivery optimization. Agent systems might provide crucial decision support functionality in the business service delivery.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of services and agents, and engage in the discussion and exchange of ideas. It will serve to highlight the impact of research in agents on the area of services and will help in the identification of practical needs and opportunities. 

The emphasis of this workshop is on the intersection of the rather new, fast growing services science and engineering paradigm with agent technology. We especially encourage papers that deal with the application of agent techniques to challenges in the services area. We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Intelligent Agent Technology and Services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*	Agent-oriented approaches (frameworks, methods, and tools) to business and IT-enabled service modeling, analysis and design 
*	Simulation and optimization of business services and service systems 
*	Service compliance management 
*	Agent technology in business process management 
*	Philosophical foundations of agency and services 
*	Service description, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering 
*	Service composition, orchestration, and choreography 
*	Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling of service delivery 
*	Agent-based negotiation of QoS and SLAs 
*	Service business models and case studies 
*	Ontology applications in services science

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Hoa Khanh Dam, University of Wollongong, Australia hoa at uow.edu.au (primary contact)

Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia aditya at uow.edu.au

Nirmit V Desai, IBM India Research Lab, India nirmit123 at in.ibm.com

Srinivas Narasimhamurthy, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies, India Srinivas_N01 at infosys.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
* Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Australia, Australia
* Joseph Davis, University of Sydney, Australia
* Alan Hartman, IBM India Research Lab, India
* Biplav Srivastava, IBM India Research Lab
* Jane Yung-jen Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
* Nanjangud C. Narendra, IBM India Research Lab, India
* Christian Guttmann, Monash University, Australia
* Tru Hoang Cao, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam
* Ho-fung Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hongkong
* Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
* Nabendu Chaki, Calcutta University, India
* Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
* Soe-Tsyr Yuan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
* Suman Roy, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies, India
* Arijit Laha, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies, India
* Nirmit V Desai, IBM India Research Lab, India
* Srinivas Narasimhamurthy, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies, India


SUBMISSION FORMAT AND PROCEDURE

Submissions will be peer reviewed in line with the standards of the main PRIMA 2010 conference. All papers, submitted as PDF files, must conform the LNCS format and will have no more than 12 pages. 

Proceedings are likely to be published by Springer - under negotiation

Instructions and templates can be found here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Papers should be sent through the Easychair conference manager http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=servagents2010

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: September 20, 2010
Notification date: September 27, 2010
Camera-ready papers deadline: October 11, 2010 
Early registration deadline: September 29, 2010 
Registration deadline: November 1, 2010 
Workshop date: November 12, 2010