Seventh International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2005 @ AAMAS)

Call for papers

Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of active information systems. They offer higher level abstractions and mechanisms which address issues such as knowledge representation and reasoning, communication, coordination, cooperation among heterogeneous and autonomous parties, perception, commitments, goals, beliefs, intentions, etc. On the one hand, the concrete implementation of these concepts can lead to advanced functionalities, e.g., in inference-based query answering, transaction control, adaptive workflows, brokering and integration of disparate information sources, and automated communication processes. On the other hand, their rich representational capabilities allow more faithful and flexible treatments of complex organizational processes, leading to more effective requirements analysis and architectural and detailed design. The workshop will focus on how agent concepts and techniques will contribute to meeting information systems needs today and in the future.

To foster greater communication and interaction between the Information Systems and Agents communities, we are aiming to organize the workshop as a bi-conference event. It is intended to be a single “logical” event with two “physical” venues. It is hoped that this arrangement will encourage greater participation from, and more exchange between, both communities.
The workshop encourages submissions on all topics related to agent-oriented information systems, including (but not limited to) the following:

agent-oriented modeling and design methods
models and architectures for agent-oriented/active information systems
novel information system technologies based on software agents
agent-oriented requirements engineering
agents and knowledge management
agent-oriented approaches to data integration
agent-based workflow modeling
agent orientation and e-services/web services
agent orientation in web information systems
agent-oriented enterprise and business process modeling
agent communication languages for business communication
ontologies and agents
managing trust and reputation
automated business-to-business interaction (including negotiation and contracting)

Papers should be limited to approximately 5000-6000 words or 8 pages – please use the IEEE format (see AAMAS website for details). Due date 14 March 2005. Authors will be advised regarding acceptability of their papers by April 18 2005. Final versions of accepted papers will be due by approximately May 19. The workshop will be on either July 25 or 26 as part of the AAMAS conference in Utrecht.

Paper submission is by emailing a PDF file to winikoff@cs.rmit.edu.au. In addition, we ask authors to notify the workshop organizers of their intention to submit by emailing a title, list of authors, and an abstract to winikoff@cs.rmit.edu.au. The deadline for receiving papers is 11:59pm GMT, 14th March. Notification of intention to submit should be received by 11:59pm GMT, 11th March.

Submitted papers must be original, have not been published elsewhere, and not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. If a paper is accepted, an author must attend the workshop to present the paper.

Important Dates

Abstract, title, and authors due	11th March (11:59pm GMT)
Paper submission due	14th March (11:59pm GMT)
Notification of Acceptance	18th April
Camera ready copies due	19th May (TBC)
AOIS-2005 @ AAMAS Workshop	25 or 26th July

Review Process

All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee. It is anticipated that approximately 10-15 papers will be accepted for presentation and publication.

Publication

Workshop notes (copies of all accepted papers) will be made available to workshop participants. Following the conference, we intend to publish a post-proceedings for AOIS 2005 in the Springer LNCS series. [Similar post-proceedings for AOIS2003 and AOIS2004 are available in the LNCS series.]. For these post-proceedings, authors will be invited to extend their papers, which will be re-reviewed for the LNCS publication.

Unlike previous post-proceedings, for which only some of the papers were invited to be submitted, this year we will be inviting all papers accepted to the workshop to be revised and re-submitted for the post-proceedings.

For further information, visit the workshop web site: http://www.aois.org.

Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs:

Brian Henderson-Sellers (primary workshop organizer to contact)
Faculty of Information Technology
University of Technology, Sydney
P.O. Box 123
Broadway
NSW 2007
Australia
Phone: +61 2 9514 1687
Fax: +61 2 9514 4535
Email: brian@it.uts.edu.au
Web page: http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~brian

Michael Winikoff
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia
Email: winikoff@cs.rmit.edu.au
Web page: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~winikoff

Steering Committee

Yves Lesperance, York University, Canada
Gerd Wagner, Eindhonven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy

Program Committee

C. Bernon (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)
B. Blake (Georgetown University Washington, DC, USA)
P. Bresciani (ITC- irst, Italy)
J. Castro (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
L. Cernuzzi (Univ. Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Paraguay)
M. Cossentino (ICAR-CNR, Palermo, Italy)
L. Cysneiros (York University, Toronto)
J. Debenham (University of Technology, Sydney)
S. DeLoach (Kansas State University, USA)
F. Dignum (Univ. of Utrecht, Netherlands)
P. Donzelli (Univ. Maryland, USA)
B. Espinasse (Domaine Universitaire de Saint-Jérôme, France)
B.H. Far (U. Calgary, Canada)
I.A. Ferguson (B2B Machines, USA)
S. Faulkner (University of Namur, Belgium)
A. Garcia (University of Lancaster, UK)
C. Ghidini (ITC-irst, Italy)
A.K. Ghose (Univ. of Wollongong, Australia)
M.-P. Gleizes (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)
C. Gonzalez-Perez (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
G. Guizzardi (University of Twente, Netherlands)
I. Hawryszkiewycz (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
C. Iglesias (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
M. Kolp (Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
C. Li (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
C. Lucena (PUC Rio, Brazil)
Ph. Massonet (CETIC, Belgium)
H. Mouratidis (University of East London, UK)
J.P. Mueller (Siemens, Germany
D.E. O'Leary (Univ. of Southern California, USA)
A. Omicini (Universitá degli Studi di Bologna, Italy)
J. Pavón (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain)
O. F. Rana (Cardiff University, UK)
O. Shehory (IBM Haifa Labs, Israel)
N. Szirbik (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
V. Torres da Silva (PUC Rio, Brazil)
N. Tran (UNSW, Australia)
C. Woo (Univ. British Columbia, Canada)
B. Yu (North Carolina State University, USA)
A. Zeid (American University of Cairo, Egypt)
Z. Zhang (Deaking University, Australia)