[ecoop-info] AOIS workshop

[Brian Henderson-Sellers]

17th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems 
(AOIS-2007), June 11th 2007

In Conjunction with CAiSE 2007, June 11-15, Trondheim, Norway


Important Dates

Abstract, title, and authors due: 26th of February 2007 (23:59 GMT)
Full Paper Submissions due: 1st of March 2007 (23:59 GMT)
Notification of Acceptance: 1st of April 2007 (23:59 GMT)
Camera Ready Submission: 15th of April 2007 (23:59 GMT)

To contact the organizing committee please send an email to info at aois.org.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Information systems have become the backbone of all kinds of 
organizations today. In almost every sector - manufacturing, education, 
health care, government, and businesses large and small - information 
systems are relied upon for everyday work, communication, information 
gathering and decision-making. Yet, the inflexibilities in current 
technologies and methods have also resulted in poor performance, 
incompatibilities 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-Orientation is emerging as a powerful new paradigm in computing. 
Concepts and techniques from the agent paradigm could well be the 
foundations for the next generation of mainstream information systems, 
which we might term "active computing". Agent concepts hold great 
promise for responding to the new realities of active information 
systems. They offer higher level abstractions and mechanisms that 
address issues such as knowledge representation and reasoning, 
communication, coordination, cooperation among heterogeneous and 
autonomous parties, perception, commitments, goals, beliefs, intentions 
etc. On the one hand, the concrete implementation of these concepts can 
lead to advanced functionalities, e.g., in inference-based query 
answering, transaction control, adaptive workflows, brokering and 
integration of disparate information sources, as well as automated 
communication processes. On the other hand, their rich representational 
capabilities allow for more faithful and flexible treatments of complex 
organizational processes, leading to more effective requirements 
analysis and architectural and detailed design. This also allows a 
natural way of considering mobility of information system users and the 
situation where information system activities span across multiple 
locations and organisations.
The workshop will focus on how agent concepts and techniques will 
contribute to meeting information systems needs today and tomorrow. The 
workshop encourages submissions on all topics related to AOIS, including 
(but not limited to) the following:

* agent-oriented modelling and design methods
* models and architectures for agent-oriented/active information systems
* novel information system technologies based on software agents
* agent-based requirements engineering
* agents and knowledge management
* agent-oriented approaches to data integration
* agent-based workflow modelling
* agent orientation and e-services
* agent orientation in web information systems
* agent-oriented enterprise and business process modelling
* agent communication languages for business communication
* ontologies and agents
* managing trust and reputation
* automated business-to-business interaction (including negotiation and 
contracting)
* agent orientation and human computer interaction

Paper Submission
Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 
15 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). 
Submissions that do not conform to the LNCS format and/or that exceed 15 
pages will be rejected without review.

Information about Sringer LNCS format can be found at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

There is a two stage submission system. In the first stage we ask 
authors to notify the workshop organizers of their intention to submit 
by emailing a title, list of authors (and corresponding author) and an 
abstract to abstract at aois.org (please enter “Intention to submit for 
AOIS at CAiSE” in the subject field. In the second stage, we ask authors to 
send their full papers by emailing the PDF file to submit at aois.org 
(please enter “Submission for AOIS at CAISE” in the subject field). Please 
note that the two emails (abstract and full paper) should be sent from 
the same email address and by the same author. This is to avoid confusion.

Workshop notes (copies of all accepted papers) will be made available to 
workshop participants. Following the conference, we intend to publish a 
post-proceedings for AOIS 2007 in the Springer LNCS series. [Similar 
post-proceedings for previous AOIS events are available in the LNCS 
series.]. For these post-proceedings, authors will be invited to extend 
their papers, which will be re-reviewed for the LNCS publication.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Co-Chairs:

Paolo Bresciani
Institute for Scientific and Technological Research (IRST), Trento, Italy
Email: pb at aois.org
Web page: http://sra.itc.it/people/bresciani

Brian Henderson-Sellers
Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney
P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia,
Phone: +61 2 9514 1687
Fax: +61 2 9514 4535
Email: brian at it.uts.edu.au
Web page: http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~brian

Haralambos Mouratidis
School of Computing and Technology, University of East London, England
Email: H.Mouratidis at uel.ac.uk
Web page: http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/H.Mouratidis

Steering Committee:

Yves Lesperance, York University, Canada