CFP - IWATSOC2009

International Workshop on Agent Technology for Service-Oriented Computing (IWATSOC) To be held at the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA2009) Nagoya, Japan Dec. 13-16, 2009 http://www.prima2009.org/ Overview: Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) represents a paradigm for development of distributed applications that is receiving more and more attention in the enterprise world, with major software vendors responding with offerings that support SOC. The uniqueness of SOC is that it enables software development in which the externally observable behaviours of the business applications are semantically described and advertised as services. Due to their nature, the services do not have to be deployed in one location. These distributed services can then be discovered, deployed, invoked, composed, and orchestrated to create dynamic business processes and agile applications within and across organisational boundaries. Software agents offer abilities of autonomous operations, interaction, cooperation, and decision making that can be used in areas such as automated negotiation, complex service contracting, coordinated service and resource sharing, intelligent service adaptation, and service exception handing. It is believed that leveraging agents and multi-agent technologies with the service technology will have a significant impact on realizing the vision of SOC. The objective of the International Workshop on Agent Technology for Service-Oriented Computing is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to report advances in leveraging the agent technology for SOC. Topics of interests: The workshop will cover the broad spectrum of research relevant to agent technology for SOC, including, but not limited to, the following: Agent-based SOC architecture and infrastructure Agent technology for modeling and design of service-oriented applications Agent technology for service discovery, provision, and monitoring Agent technology for service composition, orchestration, and coordination Agent technology for service adaptation and exception handling Agent technology for service level agreement management Agent technology for service simulation and testing Agent technology for grid computing and cloud computing Application of the agent technology for SOC based on use cases Important Dates: Paper submission: September 30, 2009 Notification of paper acceptance to authors: October 16, 2009 Camera-ready of accepted papers: November 2, 2009 Workshop day:  December 13, 2009 Submission: Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwatsoc2009 Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 16 pages in the Springer SCI format (see the Springer Author Guidelines at http://www.springer.com/series/7092). All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to domain, originality, significance and clarity. Proceedings and Post-workshop Publications: Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) book series http://www.springer.com/series/7092 by Springer. Organising committee: Dr Jun Yan School of Information Systems and Technology University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW, Australia 2522 jyan@uow.edu.au Dr Marek Kowalkiewicz SAP Research, Australia marek.kowalkiewicz@sap.com Programme Committee: Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine Jiangbo Dang, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Qiang He, Huazhong University of Technology, China Monika Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Yinsheng Li, Fudan Univeristy, China André Ludwig, University of Leipzig, Germany Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia More to be confirmed Contacts: Dr Jun Yan, jyan@uow.edu.au Dr Marek Kowalkiewicz, marek.kowalkiewicz@sap.com