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The Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing and Agent-Based Engineering (SOCABE'2005)
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/conferences/socabe2005/
to be held at
The Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS'2005)
25 - 29 July
2005,
Utrecht , The Netherlands
The purpose of this workshop is to discuss recent and significant developments in the general areas of Service Oriented Computing and Multi Agent Systems, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques between these areas. The Service Oriented Computing approach to building complex software systems bears many similarities to approaches based on software agents. Many important issues are relevant to both areas, and solutions to these may draw on techniques from both. Possible topics of interest include: architectural approaches; modelling and design techniques; service discovery, brokering and selection; service composition and workflows; service level agreement negotiation and quality-of-service management; semantic services; security models; standards.
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a newly emerging paradigm for distributed computing and e-business processing that utilizes services as fundamental elements to enable building agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries. Services are self-contained, platform-independent computational elements that can be described, published, discovered, orchestrated and deployed for the purpose of developing distributed applications across networks, including the Internet. Service-based approaches include Web services, Semantic Web services, and Grid services.
While a service need not fulfill all characteristics of a strong definition of agency, the SOC approach to building complex software systems bears many similarities to the development of agent-based systems. In particular, large systems are assembled from distributed heterogeneous software components providing specialized services and communicating using agreed-upon protocols. Similarly to certain multi-agent engineering paradigms, the design process of such systems focuses on the declarative characterization of the agents' capabilities and on a message-based paradigm of interoperation. Also similarly to multi-agent systems, management of the service provision processes is dynamic and distributed, and takes into account the requirements both at the individual services and system levels of the composed application. It also needs to be adaptive in response to the changing requirements, services and exceptions in the dynamic Web and Grid environments.
The area of Service Oriented Computing offers much of real interest to the Multi Agent System community, including similarities in system architectures and provision processes, powerful tools, and the focus on issues such as quality of service, security and reliability. Similarly, techniques developed in the MAS research community promise to have a strong impact on this fast growing technology.
This workshop continues the theme of the former WSABE workshops held at AAMAS'03 (http://agentus.com/WSABE2003) and AAMAS'04 (http://agentus.com/WSABE2004), with an expanded theme reflecting the broader scope encompassed by Service Oriented Computing.
The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the recent and significant developments in the general area of Service Oriented Computing and Software Agents and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. We seek original and high quality submissions that apply Multi Agent research to Web Service frameworks, and vice versa, in innovative and interesting ways.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Two types of submissions are
available: regular submissions of length 3000-4000 words (approx. 8-12 printed
pages) and position papers of length 1200-2000 words (approx. 4-6 printed
pages). Position papers (and some regular papers) may be presented as part of
themed discussion panels; preference may be given to position papers that take
strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics.
Full papers must not exceed 15 pages and follow the author instructions of
Springer-Verlag that can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF) or PostScript
format. Authors should submit a full
paper via electronic submission to imueller@it.swin.edu.au.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by multiple reviewers. Selection criteria will
include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness,
quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which
address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of
workshop topics.
Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers must be of
real relevance to the multi-agent research community.
Camera-ready Papers
Please send your camera-ready paper as .doc (or .tex) and .pdf files to imueller@it.swin.edu.au on or before 14 May. Note that we cannot include any paper sent after that deadline in the workshop proceedings.
All papers for the workshop must be submitted in an electronic format which conforms to ACM specifications according to general AAMAS conference policies. The page limit is
8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers. Formatting instruction can be found on
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~byu/SubmissionInstructions-AAMAS.htm.
Camera-ready papers will be made available in an electronic form prior to the
workshop and a workshop proceedings printed by AAMAS will be available at the workshop. The former WSABE2003
workshop formed the basis of a volume in Kluwer's MASA Series (http://www.wkap.nl/prod/s/MASA);
the proceedings of SOCABE2005 are also planned to form the basis for publishing
a post-workshop volume with Kluwer or Springer, and/or a special issue of an
international journal, subject to appropriate quality.
Please note that to be included in the proceedings all the papers need to be presented at the workshop by one of their authors. The authors can register on-line at AAMAS web site at http://www.aamas2005.nl/registration.php (SOCABE is a full-day workshop).
The workshop will aim to foster discussion and develop action outcomes on key
issues relating to designing, building and managing systems using Services and
Software Agents. As well as regular presentations, a number of discussion panels
on identified important themes are also planned.
Attendance may be restricted by the venue. A separate call for participation
will be distributed at about the time of acceptance notification. If attendance
needs to be limited then preference will be given first to presenters and next
to other authors who submitted.
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Submission due |
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Notification sent |
18 April 2005 |
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Final papers due |
14 May 2005 |
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Workshop |
Tuesday 26 July 2005 |
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Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (point of contact) |
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Ingo Mueller |
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Monash University, Australia |
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TeliaSonera, Finland |
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| Andreas Polze | HPI, Germany |
