[SEWORLD] CFP: 8th International Workshop on Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration (ACEC)

Call for Papers 8th International Workshop on Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration at IEEE WETICE 2010 Dates: June 28 - 30, 2010 Location: Larissa (Greece) http://www.acec.portals.mbs.ac.uk/ http://www.wetice.org/ Important Dates Deadline for Papers: March 02, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: April 02, 2010 Full version of accepted papers due to IEEE: April 14, 2010 WETICE-2009: June 28 - 30, 2010 OVERVIEW The autonomy and intelligence of software agents have greatly enhanced automation in many operational domains. A major benefit of using agents is the ability to assist in the collaboration among humans and software mechanisms, alike. Agent-enacted collaboration can be extremely helpful in areas such as Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Workflow and Supply Chain Management, Automation in Virtual Enterprises, and Automated Distributed Component composition. This year the Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration (ACEC) workshop will concentrate on two main themes: * Agent-based Services * Agent-based Solutions for Dynamic Collaborations These two themes represent important areas where software agents can leverage their distributed nature along with their proactive and autonomous characteristics to provide solutions for complex problems which are difficult to address using traditional/existing technologies. With the popularity and pervasiveness of services in the emerging digital world, enterprises must carefully evaluate how to make their services openly accessible. Furthermore, it is important for enterprises to learn how to exploit the services of others while taking into account the unexpected circumstances and changing scenarios, which frequently occur in business ecosystems. In both of these (above given) contexts, software agents can play an important role. In this respect, ACEC 201o intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications, and trends in this research area. We enthusiastically solicit papers that address agent mediation and management of services and/or products of on-line businesses. TOPICS Topics of interests include but are not limited to: * Agent-mediated workflow, supply chain, or VE * Methodologies and tools to support agent collaboration * Agent-based infrastructures for dynamic collaboration * Agent-based service architectures and infrastructures * Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on agents * Services for dynamic agent collaboration * Agent-to-Human service interactions * Agent-mediated service integration SUBMISSION of PAPERS Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere, and references to related state-of-the art work. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single-spaced, two columns, 10pt Times/Roman font. Papers should include a title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words and no more than eight keywords. Please submit papers, in PDF or PS format, to acec2010@mbs.ac.uk by March 02, 2010. All submitted papers will be peer- reviewed by a minimum of three program committee members. The accepted papers and the summary report produced by each group will be published in the post-conference proceedings (to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press). If you have further questions or remarks, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop organizers. WORKSHOP ORGANISATION Chair ACEC'2010: * Usman Wajid Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester. UK E-mail: acec2010 at mbs.ac.uk Steering Committee: * Federico Bergenti - Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecommunicazioni, Italy * M. Brian Blake - Universit of Notre Dame, USA * Giacomo Cabri - Universita'di Modena e Reggion Emilia, Italy Programme Committee (confirmed so far): * Habin Lee Brunel - University London, UK * Jorg P. Muller - Clausthal University of Technology, Germany * Nikolay Mehandjiev - University of Manchester, UK For additional information, please visit http://www.acec.portals.mbs.ac.uk/ or contact the workshop chair using acec2010 at mbs.ac.uk To contribute to SEWORLD, send your submission to mailto:seworld@sigsoft.org http://www.sigsoft.org/seworld provides more information on SEWORLD as well as a complete archive of messages posted to the list.