[agents] CfP: the 2nd International Workshop on Services and Agents (ServAgents 2011)

[Hoa Dam]

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The Second International Workshop on Services and Agents (ServAgents 2011)
In conjunction with PRIMA 2011 (http://www.prima2011.org<http://www.prima2011.org/>)
Wollongong, Australia, November 14 - 18, 2011
http://www.dsl.uow.edu.au/servagents2011/
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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<mailto:hoa at uow.edu.au>
Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia aditya at uow.edu.au<mailto:aditya at uow.edu.au>

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED)

* Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
* Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Australia, Australia
* Joseph Davis, University of Sydney, Australia
* 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 2011 conference. All papers, submitted as PDF files, must conform the LNCS format and will have no more than 15 pages.

In-principle agreement obtained from Springer for an LNCS/LNAI post-proceedings.

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=servagents2011

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:  August 12, 2011
Notification date:  September 16, 2011
Early registration deadline:  September 27, 2011
Camera-ready papers deadline:  September 30, 2011
Registration deadline:  November 1, 2011
Workshop date:  November 14 - 15, 2011