Agents'99 and CAiSE'99 International Bi-Conference Workshop on
AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AOIS'99)
1 May 1999, Seattle (USA) and
14-15 June 1999, Heidelberg (Germany)
 

Submission  +  Important Dates  +  Program Committee

Invited Speakers
Program of AOIS@Agents'99
Preliminary Program of AOIS@CAiSE'99

This bi-conference workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the Information Systems and Agents communities who will be shaping the future of information systems engineering.

Topics of Interest

Technical issues to be addressed include, but are not restricted to:

Workshop Format

To foster greater communication and interaction between the Information Systems and Agents communities, we are organizing 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 technical program will include invited talks by leading experts in the field, one or more panel discussions, and contributed papers. Poster sessions are also being planned.  Authors of accepted papers who present their paper at one location will also be invited to present their papers as a poster in the other location.

To mitigate the geographic and temporal separation of the two parts of the workshop, electronic discussion will be strongly encouraged. Accepted papers will be posted on the workshop website.  There will be designated discussants for each paper. Discussants' comments will also be posted on the website.
 

Submission of Papers

To submit a regular paper, authors should place it as a html, postscript or pdf file on a web server and send its URL along with the title, author names, affiliations, contact information and an abstract by email to one of the workshop chairs by February 15, 1999. Papers must be of reasonable size (not exceeding 20 pages). All submissions must be clearly related to an explicit agent concept and should explain what is the benefit from the proposed agent-oriented approach compared to more traditional approaches.

Position papers should be submitted by email to  gw@informatik.uni-leipzig.de in plain text or html by March 12 for participation at the Agents'99 workshop location, and by April 12 for participation at the CAiSE'99 location. Please have a look at our preliminary list of research questions.

Together with each submission, each individual author should indicate which part of the workshop he or she will be able to attend:

 a) AA only
 b) CAiSE only
 c) both AA and CAiSE
 d) either one but prefer AA
 e) either one but prefer CAiSE
 f) either one but not both, no preference
 g) cannot attend (but other author/s will)
 

Important Dates

Regular Paper Submission  February 15, 1999 
Late Submission (CAiSE only) March 31, 1999 
Position Paper for Agents'99 March 12, 1999
Position Paper for CAiSE-99 April 12, 1999
Notification Regular Papers March 15, 1999 
Accepted papers due March 29, 1999
Web presentation  April 15, 1999
AOIS Workshop at Agents'99  May 1, 1999 
Agents'99 Conference May 1-5, 1999
AOIS Workshop at CAiSE-99 June 14-15, 1999
CAiSE Conference June 15-18, 1999
 

AOIS'99 Invited Talks

Katia Sycara 
Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA		 Middle Agents for Open Information Systems
Cristiano Castelfranchi 
National Research Council, Italy		 How and why should agents trust each other
Michael Huhns 
Univ. S. Carolina, USA		 Interaction-Oriented Programming via Agent Teams
John Mylopoulos
Univ. Toronto, CA		 Requirements-Driven Information Systems Development (NEW)
Stefan Kirn
Techn. Univ. Ilmenau, DE		 (to be announced) (NEW)
Mike Papazoglou 
Tilburg Univ., The Netherlands		 (withdrawn)
 

 AOIS'99 Workshop Chairs

Gerd Wagner gw@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Institute of Computer Science 
University of Leipzig
Eric Yu eric.yu@utoronto.ca
Faculty of Information Studies 
University of Toronto
 

AOIS'99 Program Committee

H.-D. Burkhard (Humboldt Univ., DE)
I. Ferguson (Active On-line Systems, UK)
A. Gal (Rutgers Univ., USA)
W. Hesse (Univ. Marburg, DE)
M. Huhns (Univ. S. Carolina, USA)
F. Dignum (Eindhoven Univ., NL)
M. Jarke (RWTH Aachen, DE)
G. Karakoulas (CIBC and Univ. Toronto, CA)
G. Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen, DE)
Y. Lesperance (York Univ., CA)
F. Matthes (TU Harburg, DE)
J.P. Mueller (Wiley, UK)
J. Mylopoulos (Univ. Toronto, CA)
D.T. Ndumu (BT Labs, UK)
H. Nwana (BT Labs, UK)
M.P. Papazoglou (Tilburg Univ., NL)
K. Sycara (CMU, USA)
M. Schroeder (City Univ. London, UK)
Y.-H. Tan (Univ. Rotterdam, NL)
B. Thalheim (Univ. Cottbus, DE)
G. Wagner (Univ. Leipzig, DE)
C. Woo (Univ. British Columbia, CA)
E. Yu (Univ. Toronto, CA)
 

 

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