ATOP 2010

Call for Papers 2010

Agent-based Technologies and applications for enterprise interOPerability

To be held at
The Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS 2010)

Toronto, Canada

May 10 or 11 2010

Motivation

Today's enterprises must adapt their software processes to work in open settings, such as online marketplaces and, more generally, the Web, where business relationships exhibit a high degree of dynamism. Moreover, open settings are characterized by the autonomy and heterogeneity of the enterprises. In such settings, interoperability is a key concern: how do we ensure that diverse enterprises can work together toward a mutually desirable end?

Interoperability problems occur at different levels: at the business level (how organizations do business together, what needs to be described and how?), at the knowledge level (different formats, schemas, and ontologies), and at the infrastructure level (the underlying information and communication technologies and systems). Agents, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) are complementary approaches to addressing the enterprise interoperability problem. Agents enable dynamic collaboration and orchestration in changing and unpredictable situations; MDA provides mechanisms that generate artifacts for different platforms; SOA gives us late-binding interoperability between business process requirements and providers of service implementations. This workshop aims to bring together research that combines ideas from MDA and SOA with agents in presenting new solutions for enterprise interoperability.

Workshop Topics

We would like to focus the ATOP 2010 around modeling and metamodels for interoperability in agent-based systems and business applications. Ideally submitted papers should deal with model-driven agent technologies and methodologies in the context of:

• simulation and validation of business systems
• decision-support in value creation networks
• enterprise and business process modeling
• case studies of implemented interoperability solutions and systems
• coordination and negotiation in distributed business networks
• cross-organizational business processes
• normative environments for enterprise agents interoperability
• decentralized and peer-to-peer models and enactment of business processes
• goal-driven and adaptive business process management
• semantic annotations of business process descriptions
• intelligent enterprise application integration
• business process modeling, enactment and integration
• intelligent execution, monitoring, management, and optimization of business processes
• service-oriented architectures and related topics like service choreography, orchestration, composition, brokering, and mediation
• autonomic computing and adaptive autonomous architectures
• model-driven architectures for business processes and systems
• models and meta-models for agent-based systems
• platform-independent models and their relation to agent models
• model-to-model and model-to-text transformations
• knowledge representations and ontologies in the context of (collaborative) business processes
• agent communication languages and standards
• self-organization and adaptation in the context of interoperable systems

The discussion of agent technologies is recommended as it relates with the interoperability objective. However, a proposal of new, preferably model driven, techniques or technologies to increase interoperability of business applications without direct reference to agent technologies is acceptable, too. Still it is recommended that such work should be related to agent-oriented approaches if such approaches already exist. Workshops specializing in some of the topics mentioned in the above list will be held at AAMAS 2010. Authors of papers that are dealing with such topics without much discussion of interoperability aspects are encouraged to submit their papers to the more specialized workshops. The workshop organizers will closely collaborate in the evaluation of the papers. Therefore, multiple submissions do not increase the chance of a paper to be accepted.

Submission Details

Authors should submit original research papers (must not exceed 12 pages including all figures and tables) including an abstract of about 200 words or position papers (must not exceed 3 pages). In any case submission of preliminary abstracts some time before the official submission deadline is very much appreciated. All submissions must be sent electronically to

Klaus.Fischer@dfki.de

Acceptable formats are PDF and PostScript. It is planned to structure the workshops into invited talks, technical presentations and panel discussions. A publication of selected workshop papers is planned in Springer's LNBIP series. Formatting instructions can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and should be strictly followed. The first page should include the full name and contact details of at least one author (email and full postal address).

Important Dates

Organizing Committee

Joerg P. Mueller, Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany (main contact, email joerg DOT mueller AT tu-clausthal DOT de )
Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany
Renato Levy, Intelligent Automation, Inc, Rockville, USA

Program Committee

Sahin Albayrak, TU Berlin, Germany
Arne Berre, Sintef, Norway
Bernhard Bauer, University Augsburg, Germany
Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland
Axel Hahn, University Oldenburg, Germany
Christian Hahn, DFKI, Germany
Oystein Haugen, SINTEF, Norway
Stefan Kirn, Hohenheim University, Germany
Margaret Lyell, IAI, USA
Saber Mansour, Oslo Software, France
Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
Herve Panetto, University Nancy, France
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Ralph Ronnquist, Intendico Pty. Ltd., Australia
Omair Shafiq, University of Calgary, Canada
Carles Sierra, IIIA, Spain
Ingo Timm, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Joerg Ziemann, IWi, Germany
Ingo Zinnikus, DFKI, Germany

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