Workshop on Servise-Oriented Computing and Multi-Agent Systems (SOCMAS 2010)

   IEEE 2010 First International Workshop on Servise-Oriented Computing and Multi-Agent Systems (SOCMAS 2010)

Miami, Florida, USA, one day between July 5-10, 2010
in conjunction with SERVICES 2010

Description

The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technologies, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote the cross-fertilization between these research areas. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, flexibility, and adaptability.

List of Topics:

We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology, Semantic Web services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems
* Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and Semantic Web development
* Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent system design, development and integration
* Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes
* Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering
* Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography
* Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery
* Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements
* Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems
* Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned
* Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution
* Ontology generation, learning and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents
* Use of agent-based technology in service-oriented computing (applications)

Important Dates

• Submission deadline 15 April 2010
• Acceptance notification April 22 2010
• Camera-ready deadline 30 April 2010
• Workshop held on 5-10 July 2010

 

Paper Submission, Review Process, and Publication

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Please note that the same paper should NOT be submitted to other conferences or events simultaneously. Such duplicate submissions will be rejected without review.

Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings Formatting Information page. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at www.servicescongress.org. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the workshop and present the paper.

Only the accepted and presented papers will appear in the CD proceedings of the workshop. It is intended to publish after workshop proceedings with Springer LNCS. Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for potential publication in the IOS Press International Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems (MAGS).

Workshop Organizers

Rainer Unland (primary contact), University of Duisburg-Essen,
Email: Rainer.Unland   at  icb.uni-due.de
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology

CfP: Active Media Technology 2010

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            Active Media Technology 2010

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2010 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2010)

August 28-30, 2010, Toronto, Canada

Homepage: http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi10/
Mirror page: http://www.yorku.ca/amtbi10 

Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) 
                IEEE Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
Co-sponsored by York University, Toronto, Canada
                Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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In the great digital era, we are witnessing many rapid
scientific and technological developments in human-centred,
seamless computing environments, interfaces, devices, and
systems with applications ranging from business and communication
to entertainment and learning. These developments are collectively
best characterized as Active Media Technology (AMT), a new area
of intelligent information technology and computer science that
emphasizes the proactive, seamless roles of interfaces and systems
as well as new media in all aspects of digital life. An AMT based
system offers services to enable the rapid design, implementation
and support of customized solutions.

The first International Conference on Active Media Technology
(AMT01) was held in Hong Kong in 2001, the second International
Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT04) was held in Chongqing,
China in May 29-31 of 2004, the third International Conference on
Active Media Technology (AMT05) was held in Kagawa, Japan in May
2005, the fourth International Conference on Active Media
Technology (AMT06) was held in Brisbane, Australia in June 7-9,
2006, and the fifth International Conference on Active Media
Technology (AMT09) was jointly held with the 2009
International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2009).
Following the success of AMT01, AMT04, AMT05, AMT06 and AMT09,
the Sixth International Conference on Active Media Technology
(AMT10) will be held in Toronto, Canada from August 28-30, 2010.

Active Media Technology 2010 will be jointly held with the 2010
International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2010).  The two
conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend sessions, exhibits and demonstrations across the
two conferences.

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Topics of Interest
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CONFERENCE TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO

* Active Computer Systems and Intelligent Interfaces
* Adaptive Web Systems and Information Foraging Agents
* Agent-Based Software Engineering and Multi-Agent Systems
* AMT for Semantic Web and Web2.0
* Cognitive Foundations for AMT
* Conversational Informatics
* Data Mining, Ontology Mining and Web Reasoning
* Digital City and Digital Interactivity
* E-Commerce and Web Services
* E-learning
* Entertainment and Social Applications of Active Media
* Evaluation of Active Media and AMT Based Systems
* Human-Web Interaction
* Human Factors in AMT
* Information Retrieval
* Machine Learning and Human-Centred Robotics
* Multi-Modal Processing, Detection, Recognition, and
  Expression Analysis
* Network, Mobile and Wireless Security
* Personalized, Pervasive, and Ubiquitous Systems and their
  Interfaces
* Semantic Computing for Active Media and AMT Based Systems
* Sensing Web
* Smart Digital Media
* Trust on Web Information Systems
* Web Based Social Networks
* Web Mining, Wisdom Web and Web Intelligence

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all AMT related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive
review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of
technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. 

The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a
volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI).
Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be
considered for publication in special issues of international journals,
including Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Springer, 
http://www.editorialmanager.com/jiis/).

Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript
submission guidelines (available at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) for their initial
submissions (a maximum of 12 pages in Springer LNCS/LNAI style file). 
All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format
only, using the conference management tool. 

We will also have poster, demonstration, and late breaking result
paper sessions. Detailed instructions and a paper submission form
can be found the AMT'10 Web page at http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi10/

A selected number of the best papers from AMT'10 will be expanded
and revised for possible inclusion in "Knowledge and Information Systems:
An International Journal" (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) by Springer
and "Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal"
(http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) by IOS Press.

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Awards
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AMT 2010 best paper awards and student paper awards will be
conferred on the authors at the conference.

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Important Dates
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Electronic submission of full papers 
(12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file):  
*** 31 March 2010 *** 

Notification of paper acceptance: June 1, 2010
Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 24, 2010
Conference:  August 28-30, 2010

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Conference Organization
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Conference General Chairs:
 * Sheela Petty, University of Regina, Canada
 * Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan

Program Chairs:
 * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
 * Aijun An, York University, Toronto, Canada

Organizing Chair:
 * Jimmy Huang, York University, Toronto, Canada

Publicity Chairs:
 * Daniel Tao, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
 * Jian Yang, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China

IEEE-CIS-TFBI Chair
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

WIC Advisory Board:
 * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
 * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
 * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
 * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
 * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
 * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
 * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
 * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
 * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
 * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
 * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
 * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
 * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
 * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
 * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada


*** Contact Information ***

Email: Pawan Lingras  pawan@cs.smu.ca
       Aijun An  aan@cse.yorku.ca

The 8th International Workshop on SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE)

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The 8th International Workshop on

SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE)

http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2010/

to be held at the 9th International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND

MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2009) Toronto Canada, May 10-14 2010,

(http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/)

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Please realize that we had to shorten the submission deadline by a week. For those who cannot make it till the 28 February we will still accept the paper till 7 March as long as we are informed about the possible paper submission till 28 February. The problem is that the AAMAS organizers need the final version of the papers by 28 February. Moreover, the deadline for early registration will end on 12 March. We will try our best to inform you about the outcome of our review process by 11 March but cannot guarantee that, especially not if we get the paper pretty late. Thus, be prepared to have to pay a slightly higher fee if you don't want to register for the workshop and AAMAS without knowing the result of the review process for your paper. Also, make sure that you can revise your paper till 28 March. This deadline cannot be extended any further.

 

Submission Deadline Acceptance Notification Final Version Submission Deadline Workshop held

28 Feb 2010 (7 March 2010 (see above)) 20 March 2010 27 March 2010 11 May 2010

 

DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technology, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, and adaptability.

The Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE) workshop continues the theme of the previous SOCASE workshops successfully held at AAMAS’09, AAMAS’08 and AAMAS’07, the SOCABE workshops held at AAMAS’06, AAMAS’05 and the WSABE workshops held at AAMAS’04 and AAMAS’03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide spectrum of issues of the cross section between agent-based and service-oriented paradigms.

 

TOPICS

We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology, Semantic Web Services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems

* Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and

Semantic Web development

* Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent system design, development, and integration

* Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes

* Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering

* Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography

* Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery

* Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements

* Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems

* Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned

* Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution

* Ontology generation, hearing and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents

 

SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION

Submission is to be done electronically. The detailed instructions are provided at the SOCASE'10 web page https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=socase10.

Contact Zakaria Maamar (Zakaria.Maamar@zu.ac.ae) for help if required.

Submitted papers have a page limit of 15 pages and should be formatted according to LNCS specification. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. Instructions and templates can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. 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 published in the workshop proceedings. Similarly to the previous years the SOCASE 2010 post-proceedings will be published with Springer’s LNCS, subject to an appropriate number and quality of submissions. A selection of best papers will also be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of the papers to a special issue of a major international journal.

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

* Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

  (point of contact: rainer.unland@icb.uni-due.de)

* Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University, Australia

* Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA

* Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE

* Quoc Bao Vo, Swinburne University, Australia

* Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Swinburne University, Australia

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

* Taleb Bendiab, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

* M. Brian Blake, University of Notre Dame, USA

* Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

* Cherif Branki, University of West Scotland - Paisley, UK

* Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

* Owen Cliffe, University of Bath, UK

* Christian Derksen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

* Frank Dignum, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

* Virginia Dignum, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

* Antonio Garcia Dominguez, University of Cadiz,

* Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany

* Christian Guttmann, Monash University, Australia

* Benjamin Hirsch, Berlin University of Technology, Germany

* Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany

* Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany

* Tim Lessner, University of Scotland - Paisley, UK

* Wathiq Mansoor, American University of Dubai, Dubai

* Lars Moench, University of Hagen, Germany

* Ganna Monakova, University of Stuttgart, Germany

* Volker Nissen, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany

* Andreas Oberweis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

* Guadalupe Ortiz-Bellot, University of Cadiz, Spain

* Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Span

* Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK

* Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

* Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania

* Thomas Quillinan, Thales Netherlands, Netherlands

* Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA

* Sebastian Stein, University of Southampton, UK

* Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

* Ingo Timm, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

* Alexander Walz, University of Stuttgart, Germany

* Danny Weyns, K.U. Lueven, Belgium

* Franco Zambonelli, Universita' di Modena e Reggiio Emilia, Italy