[agents] CfP: 10th Adaptive Computing (and Agents) for Enhanced Collaboration (ACEC) @ IEEE WETICE 2012

[Giacomo Cabri]

10th Adaptive Computing (and Agents) for Enhanced Collaboration (ACEC)
Conference Track @ IEEE WETICE 2012
June 25 - 27, 2012
Toulouse, France
http://acec.portals.mbs.ac.uk/


** Best papers money awards **

As in the past editions, the best paper of the ACEC track will receive 
the "Best paper award".
In addition, this year the best paper and the student best paper will 
receive a money award in the form of reimbursment of expanses up to 400 
euros each.
These awards are sponsored by Awareness (http://www.aware-project.eu/), 
a FET coordination action funded by the European Commission under FP7 
that provides support for researchers interested in Self-Awareness in 
Autonomic Systems.


** Overview **

Over its nine years in existence, ACEC has focused on projects that 
leverage the adaptability, autonomy, and intelligence of first-class 
software agents for the collaboration that occurs across enterprise 
software systems.  In 2012, ACEC celebrates its 10th anniversary.  The 
organizers would like to continue to explore research in  agent--based 
computing, but also we will welcome a wider array of projects that 
leverage adaptive techniques that may not include all the attributes of 
first class software agents.  In addition to our traditional domain 
areas, i.e. Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Workflow and Supply 
Chain Management, Automation in Virtual Enterprises, and Automated 
Distributed Service Composition, we are also interested in new adaptive 
techniques to collaboration when organizations leverage emerging web 
techniques such as Cloud computing, crowd-sourcing, and general social 
networking.

In addition to traditional papers, the forthcoming 10th installment of 
ACEC welcomes papers from two focus areas:

# Adaptive and Agent-Based Services
# Adaptive Techniques for Organizational/Enterprise Use of Emerging Web 
Paradigms (Cloud, Crowd-sourcing, Mobile apps)

These two focus areas 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  at the consumer level 
(crowd-sourcing) while taking into account the unexpected circumstances 
and changing scenarios, which frequently occur in organizational ecosystems.

In both of these (above given) contexts, software agents (and adaptive 
software techniques) can play an important role. In this respect, ACEC 
2012 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:

# Adaptive and/or agent-mediated workflow, supply chain, or virtual 
enterprises
# Methodologies, languages and tools to support agent collaboration
# Agent architectures and infrastructures for dynamic collaboration
# Adaptive and agent-based service architectures and infrastructures
# Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on agents
# Services for dynamic agent collaboration
# Agent-to-Human service interactions
# Autonomous, adaptive, and/or agent-mediated service integration
# Organizational and enterprise systems that leverage Web 2.0
# Adaptive and agent-mediated cloud environments

** Important Dates **

Deadline for paper submission:    16 March 2012
Decision to paper authors         16 April 2012
Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE:    30 April 2012
20th IEEE WETICE-2011 conference:    25 - 27 June 2011

** Paper submission **

Information about the submission of papers will be available on the web 
site.


** Track Chairs: **

Giacomo Cabri
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia
E-mail giacomo.cabri at unimore.it

Usman Wajid
Manchester Business School,
The University of Manchester, UK
Email: usman.wajid at manchester.ac.uk

Federico Bergenti
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni
Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A
43100 Parma, Italy
E-mail:bergenti at ce.unipr.it

M. Brian Blake
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Email:M.Brian.Blake at nd.edu

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| Prof. Giacomo Cabri - Ph.D., Associate Professor
| Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
| Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia
| e-mailgiacomo.cabri at unimore.it
| tel. +39-059-2056190  fax +39-059-2056129
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