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Dear Colleague,
Due to many requests we extended the Submission Deadline to 20 MARCH.
For more information about ABA please visit : http://www.aba-rd.org
We are looking forward to receiving your papers.
Best Regards and Wishes,
Hanh Pham
( Please do not reply to this message. To contact us please use
[log in to unmask]@newpaltz.edu . Thanks)
Call for Papers
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* AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING and AGENTS for BUSINESS AUTOMATION *
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June - October, 2004
Las-Vegas (USA), Wellington (New Zealand), The Hague (The Netherlands)
http://www.aba-rd.org/
http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA/all/index.html
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Submission Deadline for Draft Papers is March 20, 2004
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TOPICS:
AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING and particularly AGENT technology can help us to
process heterogeneous information, knowledge, manufacturing data, and
business transactions in an automatic, flexible, intelligent, and
efficient way. The goals of this International Workshop are to gather
ACADEMIC and INDUSTRIAL researchers to exchange new ideas and experiences,
to initialize new contacts or to strengthen existing collaborations. We
hope to create a dynamic forum and effective connections among
RESEARCHERS, USERS, and DEVELOPERS in this field.
This year we plan to have the following tracks:
+ Track-A: " Agents for Autonomous Information and Knowledge Processing "
(at IKE) June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA.
+ Track-B: " Distributed & Parallel Computing Techniques for Agents "
(at PDPTA) June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA.
+ Track-C: " Intelligent Agents for Autonomous Processing "
(at IC-AI) June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA.
+ Track-D: " Internet Agents for Autonomous Processing "
(at IC) June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA.
+ Track-E: " Agents for Business and Engineering Systems"
(at KES) September 20-24, Wellington, New Zealand.
+ Track-G: " Agent-based Systems for Autonomous Processing"
(at IEEE SMC) October 10-13, The Hague, The Netherlands
We welcome papers on architectures, protocols, algorithms, design,
evaluation, implementation techniques, and applications of autonomous and
agent-based systems. Technical issues to be addressed include, but are not
limited to:
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Autonomous Computing and Agents for Business Automation in:
+ Interface to Human Users
+ Text and Data Retrieval for Automatic Formation of Demands and Supplies
+ Matching Demands/Supplies and Transaction Formation
+ Transaction Implementation & Validation
+ Logistics & Workflow Management
+ Monitoring, Control, and Visualization of Agent-based Business Automation
+ Modeling, Simulation, Design, & Evaluation of Agent-based Business
Systems
+ Problems Statements/Descriptions of Challenging Scenarios
in Business Automation
APPLICATIONS
Autonomous Computing and Agents for:
+ Virtual Offices
+ Personal and Professional Assistants
+ Processing Text, Multimedia, and Heterogeneous Information
+ Distributed Documents
+ E-Marketing and E-Advertising
+ E-Management and E-Control
+ E-Trade and E-Marketplace
+ E-Payment and E-Banking
+ E-Government and E-Administration
+ Financial & Investment Management
+ Supply Chains & B2B systems
+ Games on the Internet
+ Wireless Systems
+ Semantic Webs
+ Large-Scale Heterogeneous and Distributed Systems
METHODOLOGIES & IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUES
+ Agent Architectures and Multi-agent Infrastructures
+ Agent Learning
+ Agent Negotiation
+ Agent Trusts & Trust-based Actions
+ Agent Cooperation/Competition
+ Soft Computing (Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, GA ...) for Agents
+ Agent Communication
+ Agent Interaction/Coordination
+ Agent Mobility
+ Real-Time Agents
+ Agent Security and Authentication
+ Agent Reliability and Fault Tolerance
+ Agent Visualization
+ Distributed and Parallel Techniques for Agents and Autonomous Computing
SUBMISSION:
You are invited to submit papers through the http://www.aba-rd.org/ site.
If the files are more than 10Mb even after zipping then please email
them to the contact address below. Please use the IEEE-format with less
than 7 pages for draft papers. After being reviewed, papers may be
accepted in the following categories:
+ RESEARCH Papers for presentations (7 pages) and for posters (4 pages);
+ REPORT Papers for System/Software/Product descriptions, analysis,
and demos (7 or 4 pages);
+ POSITION Papers for stating problems and issues of Challenging
business scenarios (2 pages).
accepted papers of all categories will be published in the conference
proceedings.
FORMAT & PUBLICATION:
This International Workshop consists of Technical Tracks held at several
International Conferences. Our workshop papers will be published in those
corresponding Conference Proceedings in hard copy (ISBN). In addition to
that, we also plan to publish the revised versions of papers of ALL tracks
in a book. In the past, selected papers from our previous workshops were
extended and published in two journal issues:
+ " ASPECTS of INTERNET AGENT-BASED E-BUSINESS SYSTEMS ", Journal of
Electronic Commerce Research, Volume 3:3-4, July-October 2003,
Kluwer Publisher;
http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA/papers/J1/
+ " SOFTWARE AGENTS for BUSINESS AUTOMATION ", Journal of E-commerce
Research and Applications, Vol.2, N.3, July-October 2003, Elsevier
Publisher.
http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA/papers/J2/
CONFERENCE EVENTS:
Our technical tracks are planned to be held at the following conferences:
IKE: The 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Engineering (*)
IT: The 2004 International Conference on Internet Computing (*)
PDPTA: The 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Processing Techniques and Applications (*)
IC-AI: The 2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (*)
KES: The 8th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent
Information & Engineering Systems, KES, September 20-24,
Wellington, New Zealand.
IEEE SMC: The 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man &
Cybernetics, October 10-13, The Hague, The Netherlands
( Conferences with (*) are among the 18 Conferences of the 2004
International MultiConference IMCSCE, June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA)
PARTICIPATION:
For the authors who may not be able to present their papers at the
conference site, we plan to make post-conference on-line interactive
forums & presentations (all other authors will also be invited to
participate). This is for introduction, questions/answers about papers and
related projects, discussions about possible cooperation ... Minutes of
all discussions will be distributed to the participants.
IMPORTANT DATES:
February 29, 2004: Draft papers
March 27, 2004: Notification of acceptance
April 21, 2004: Camera-Ready papers
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
( Please visit http://www.aba-rd.org/ for an update list )
CONTACT:
Dr. Hanh Pham
Department of Computer Science
State University of New York
75 S. Manheim Blvd. Suite 6, FOB-08
New Paltz, NY 12561, USA
E-mail: aba <at> cs <dot> newpaltz <dot> edu
phamh <at> newpaltz <dot> edu
URL: http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/
Tel: 1-845-257-3574
Fax: 1-845-257-3996
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