From: Lawrence Cavedon (lcavedon@csli.Stanford.EDU)
Date: 03/15/05
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
---- Extended deadline: 20 March 2005! ----
The Workshop on
SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING AND AGENT-BASED ENGINEERING (SOCABE-2005)
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/conferences/socabe2005/
to be held at
The Fourth International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems
AAMAS-2005
http://www.aamas2005.nl/
Utrecht, The Netherlands
25 - 29 July 2005 (SOCABE date TBC)
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AIMS AND SCOPE
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a newly emerging paradigm for
distributed computing and e-business processing that utilizes
services as fundamental elements to enable building agile networks of
collaborating business applications distributed within and across
organizational boundaries. Services are self-contained, platform-
independent computational elements that can be described, published,
discovered, orchestrated and deployed for the purpose of developing
distributed applications across networks, including the Internet.
Service-based approaches include Web services, Semantic Web services,
and Grid services.
While a service need not fulfill all characteristics of a strong
definition of agency, the SOC approach for building complex software
systems bears many similarities to the development of agent-based
systems. In particular, large systems are assembled from distributed
heterogeneous software components providing specialized services and
communicating using agreed-upon protocols. Similarly to certain
multi-agent engineering paradigms, the design process of such systems
focuses on the declarative characterization of the agents'
capabilities and on a message-based paradigm of interoperation. Also
similarly to multi-agent systems, management of the service provision
processes is dynamic and distributed, and takes into account the
requirements both at the individual services and system levels of the
composed application. It also needs to be adaptive in response to the
changing requirements, services and exceptions in the dynamic Web and
Grid environments.
The area of Service Oriented Computing offers much of real interest
to the Multi Agent System community, including similarities in system
architectures and provision processes, powerful tools, and the focus
on issues such as quality of service, security and reliability.
Similarly, techniques developed in the MAS research community promise
to have a strong impact on this fast growing technology.
It continues the theme of the former WSABE workshops held at AAMAS'03
(http://agentus.com/WSABE2003) and AAMAS'04
(http://agentus.com/WSABE2004), with an expanded theme reflecting the
broader scope encompassed by Service Oriented Computing.
TOPICS
The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the recent and significant
developments in the general area of Service Oriented Computing and
Software Agents and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. We
seek original and high quality submissions that apply Multi Agent
research to Web Service frameworks, and vice versa, in innovative and
interesting ways. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Architectures and infrastructure for distributed agent- or service-
oriented frameworks;
* Agent-based modeling and design techniques in service-oriented
system development;
* Multi-agent techniques to describing, organizing, and discovering
services;
* Process modeling and planning for service/agent composition,
orchestration and coordination;
* Security support for agents and services, and agent-based
approaches to service security;
* Intelligent matchmaking, service brokering and service level
agreement negotiation;
* Services and the Semantic Web, including initiatives such as OWL-S;
* Deployment, packaging, and distribution of services and software
agents;
* Agent-based quality of service management;
* Intelligent services and service agents;
* Agent and service interoperability and integration
* Functional and non-functional aspects of agents and services;
* Agent-based service business models and applications (e.g. in e-
Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom etc.)
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Two types of submissions are available: regular submissions of length
3000-4000 words (approx. 8-12 printed pages) and position papers of
length 1200-2000 words (approx. 4-6 printed pages). Position papers
(and some regular papers) may be presented as part of themed
discussion panels; preference may be given to position papers that
take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics.
Full papers must not exceed 15 pages and follow the author
instructions of Springer-Verlag that can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html . All papers should be
in Adobe portable document format (PDF) or PostScript format. Authors
should submit
a full paper via electronic submission to imueller@it.swin.edu.au.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by multiple reviewers. Selection
criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality,
technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may
also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important
common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics.
Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers
must be of real relevance to the multi-agent research community.
Accepted papers will be made available in electronic form prior to the
workshop and a printed collection will be available at the
workshop. The former WSABE2003 workshop formed the basis of a volume
in Kluwer's MASA Series (http://www.wkap.nl/prod/s/MASA); the
proceedings of SOCABE2005 may also be used as the basis of a published
volume, subject to appropriate quality.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission due: March 20, 2005 (extended)
Notification sent: April 18, 2005
Final papers due: May 20, 2005
Workshop: July 25-26, 2005 (TBC)
ORGANIZERS COMMITTEE
* Ryszard Kowalczyk (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
* Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, UAE)
* Lawrence Cavedon (Stanford University, USA)
* David Martin (SRI International, USA)
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
* Ingo Mueller (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
* Djamal Benslimane (Lyon 1 University, France)
* M. Brian Blake (Georgetown University, USA)
* Peter Braun (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
* Bernard Burg (Panasonic Research, USA)
* Jonathan Dale (Fujitsu, USA)
* Steve Goschnick (University of Melbourne, Australia)
* Jun Han (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
* W.J. van den Heuvel (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Ying Huang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
* Patrick Hung (University of Ontario, Canada)
* Shonali Krishnaswamy (Monash University, Australia)
* Mikko Laukkanen (TeliaSonera, Finland)
* Seng Loke (Monash University, Australia)
* Anne Ngu (Southwest Texas State University, USA)
* Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
* Lin Padgham (RMIT University, Australia)
* Terry Payne (University of Southampton, UK)
* Giovanna Petrone (University of Torino, Italy)
* Andreas Polze (HPI, Germany)
* Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia)
* Quan Z. Sheng (University of New South Wales, Australia)
* Kwang Mong Sim (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
* Eleni Stroulia (University of Alberta, Canada)
* Jeff Sutherland (PatientKeeper, Inc., USA)
* Philippe Thiran (Eindhoven University of Technology, the
Netherlands)
* Hua Tianfield (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
* Steve Wilmott (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Jun Yan (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
* Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia)
* Yun Yang (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
* Soe-Tsyr (Yuan National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
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