Eight International
Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2006), May 9
2006
In Conjunction with
AAMAS2006, May 8-12, Hakotade, Japan
!! Submission Deadlines have been
extended !!
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 of the present and the future .
The
workshop encourages submissions on all topics related to AOIS, 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-based requirements engineering
*
agents and knowledge management
*
agent-oriented approaches to data integration
*
agent-based workflow modeling
*
agent orientation and e-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)
*
agent orientation and human computer interaction
Papers
should be limited to approximately 5000-6000 words or 8 pages – please use the ACM
format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
). Due date is 1 February 2006. Notification
of intention to submit should be received by 25 January 2006. Authors will be
advised regarding acceptability of their papers by February 19 2006. Final
versions of accepted papers will be due by approximately March 5 2006. The
workshop will be on May 9 as part of the AAMAS conference in Hakodate in Japan.
Paper
submission is by emailing a PDF file to aois06@isys.ucl.ac.be. 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 aois06@isys.ucl.ac.be.
The deadline for receiving papers is 11:59pm GMT, 1st February.
Notification of intention to submit should be received by 11:59pm GMT, 25th
January.
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 2006 in the Springer LNCS series. [Similar
post-proceedings for previous AOIS events 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.
Important Dates
Abstract,
title, and authors due: 25 January 2006
Paper
submission due: 1 February 2006
Notification
of Acceptance: 19 February 2006
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Co-Chairs:
Alessandro
Garcia
Computing
Department, South Drive - InfoLab 21, Lancaster
University, UK
Email:
garciaa@comp.lancs.ac.uk
Aditya Ghose
Decision
Systems Lab, School of IT and Computer Science, University of Wollongong,
Australia
Email:
aditya@uow.edu.au
Manuel
Kolp
IAG/ISYS
- Information Systems Research Unit, University of Louvain,
Belgium
Email:
kolp@isys.ucl.ac.be
Steering Committee:
Yves
Lesperance, York University, Canada
Gerd
Wagner,
Eric
Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Paolo
Giorgini, University of Trento,
Italy
Preliminary
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 (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
B. Espinasse (Domaine Universitaire de
Saint-Jérôme, France)
S.
Faulkner (University of Namur, Belgium)
B.H.
Far (U. Calgary, Canada)
I.A. Ferguson (B2B Machines, USA)
A. Garcia (Lancaster
University, 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 (
I.
Hawryszkiewycz (University of Technology, Sydney,
Australia)
B.
Henderson-Sellers (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
C.
Iglesias (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
M. Kolp (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
D.E.
O'Leary (Univ. of Southern California, USA)
C.
Li (
C. Lucena (PUC Rio,
Brazil)
G.
Low (UNSW, Australia)
Ph.
Massonet (CETIC, Belgium)
H.
Mouratidis (University of East London, UK)
J.P. Mueller (Siemens, Germany)
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)
K. Taveter (VTT Information Technology,
Finland/Univ. Melbourne, Australia)
N. Tran
(UNSW, Australia)
V. Torres da Silva (PUC Rio, Brazil)
M. Winikoff (RMIT, Australia)
C. Woo (Univ. British Columbia, Canada)
B.
Yu (North Carolina State University, USA)
A.
Zeid (American University of Cairo, Egypt)
Z.
Zhang (Deakin University, Australia)
PRIMARY CONTACT
Aditya Ghose
Director
Decision
Systems Lab
School
of IT and Computer Science
University
of Wollongong
NSW
2522 Australia
Email:
aditya@uow.edu.au
Web:
http://www.uow.edu.au/~aditya
Phone:
+61 2 4221 4051
Fax:
+ 61 2 4221 4170