[agents] ACEC @ WETICE 2017 - Call for Papers

[Federico Bergenti]

ACEC @ WETICE 2017

15th Adaptive Computing (and Agents) for Enhanced Collaboration (ACEC) at
WETICE 2017

 

http://didattica.agentgroup.unimore.it/ACEC2017

 

Call for Papers

 

Aims and Scope

Over its 14 years of 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
2017, 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 such
as collaboration when organizations leverage emerging web techniques such as
Cloud Computing, Crowd-Sourcing and general Social Networking.

In addition to traditional papers, the forthcoming 15th episode 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 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 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 2017
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 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/or 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

*	Paper Submission (extended): February 26, 2017
*	Notification: April 2, 2017
*	Camera Ready: April 15, 2017
*	Conference: June 21-23, 2017

 

Paper submission

Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted
elsewhere, and references to related state-of-the art work. Please submit
your papers in PDF or PS format. 

Papers up to 6 pages (including figures, tables and references) can be
submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format available at:

 

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

 

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. 

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three program
committee members. 

Accepted papers will be published in the post-conference proceedings (to be
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press). 

 

Please note that authors of accepted papers must present their papers at the
conference, and at least one author for each accepted paper should register
and attend WETICE 2017 to have the paper published in the proceedings.

 

The paper submission procedure is carried out using the EasyChair conference
management system

 

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wetice2017