Originally from: Gerd Wagner <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: agents & information systems
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Last Call for Papers & Call for Participation
Second International Bi-Conference Workshop on
AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AOIS-2000)
http://www.AOIS.org
5-6 June 2000, Stockholm (Sweden) at CAiSE*00
30 July 2000, Austin (Texas, USA) at AAAI-2000
IMPORTANT DATES
1 March 2000, deadline for submitting title and abstract
10 March 2000, deadline for submitting full paper
INVITED TALKS
William E. McCarthy (Michigan State Univ, USA)
REA Economic Agents as Homines Economici in an
Agent-Oriented Information Systems Environment
James Odell (James Odell Associates, USA)
Extending UML for Agent-Based Representation
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Agent-Orientation is emerging as a powerful new paradigm
in computing. Agent-oriented concepts and techniques
could well be the foundations for the next generation of
mainstream information systems.
Information systems have become the backbone of all kinds
of organizations today. Yet the inflexibilities in current
technologies and methods have also resulted in poor
performance, incompatibilties, and obstacles to change.
As many organizations are reinventing themselves to meet
the challenges of global competition and e-commerce,
there is increasing pressure to develop and deploy new
technologies that are flexible, robust, and responsive
to rapid and unexpected change.
Agent concepts, which originated in artificial intelligence
but which have further developed and evolved in many areas
of computing, hold great promise for responding to the new
realities of information systems. The workshop will focus
on how agent concepts and techniques will contribute to
meeting information systems needs today and tomorrow.
TOPICS
Topics include (but are not limited to):
- agent-oriented modeling and design methods
- models/architectures for agent-oriented information systems
- novel information system technologies based on software agents
- agent-oriented requirements engineering
- agent-oriented approaches to data integration
- agents and knowledge management
- ontologies in agent-oriented information systems
- agent-based workflow management systems
- agent-oriented enterprise and business process modeling
- agent communication languages for business communication
- agents in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
WORKSHOP FORMAT
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.
SUBMISSION
To submit a regular paper as a html, postscript or pdf file,
authors should either send it by email (or place it on a web
server and send its URL) to one of the workshop chairs by
10 March 2000. A separate message with the title, author
names, affiliations, contact information and an abstract
has to be sent by 1 March 2000. Papers must be of reasonable
size, not exceeding 15 pages. Both work-in-progress and
completed research papers are welcome. All accepted papers
of AOIS-2000 will be published in a book (the AOIS'99
proceedings are going to be published by MIT Press).
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Yves Lespérance
Department of Computer Science, York Univ, CA
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Gerd Wagner
Institute of Informatics, Free Univ of Berlin, DE
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Eric Yu
Faculty of Information Studies, Univ of Toronto, CA
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PROGRAM COMMITEE
H.-D. Burkhard (Humboldt Univ, DE), F. Dignum (Eindhoven Univ, NL),
I. Ferguson (Active On-line Systems, UK), T. Finin (UMBC, USA),
A. Gal (Rutgers Univ, USA), M. Huhns (Univ. S. Carolina, USA),
M. Jarke (RWTH Aachen, DE), A.G. Karakoulas (CIBC and Univ Toronto,
CA), G. Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen, DE), S. Kirn (TU Ilmenau, DE),
F. Matthes (TU Harburg, DE), J.P. Mueller (Siemens, DE),
J. Mylopoulos (Univ Toronto, CA), M.P. Papazoglou (Tilburg Univ,
NL), M. Schroeder (City Univ London, UK), M. Singh (North Carolina
State Univ, USA), K. Sycara (CMU, USA), C. Woo (Univ British
Columbia, CA)
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