Due the COVID-19 pandemic, the 29th WETICE edition will be co-located with the 30th edition held on June 9-11, 2021 in Bayonne (French Basque country), France.

First-round process

Submission deadline: March 22, 2020 (Closed)
Notification to authors: April 25, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: May 5, 2020
Authors registration deadline: September 10, 2020

Second-round process

Submission deadline: July 22, 2020 (extended)
Notification to authors: August 15, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: September 10, 2020
Authors registration deadline: September 10, 2020
This is the link to attend the ACEC track by MS Teams

Each full paper will have 20 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for questions.
Each short paper will have 10 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for questions.

9:30 Track opening
9:40 Walid Younes, Sylvie Trouilhet, Françoise Adreit and Jean-Paul Arcangeli. Agent-mediated application emergence through reinforcement learning from user feedback
10:05 Alejandro Rodríguez-Arias, Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas and Noelia Sánchez-Maroño. A FIPA-ACL based communication utility for Unity
10:30 Maxime Houssin, Stephanie Combettes, Marie-Pierre Gleizes and Berangere Lartigue. SANDMAN: a Self-Adapted System for Anomaly Detection in Smart Buildings Data Streams
10:55 Afef Selmi and Zaki Brahmi. PEA: Predicting Expert Agents approach
11:10 Omar Iraqi and Hanan El Bakkali. Immunizer: A Scalable Loosely-Coupled Self-Protecting Software Framework using Adaptive Microagents and Parallelized Microservices
11:25 Closing remarks
FULL PAPERS

• Walid Younes, Sylvie Trouilhet, Françoise Adreit and Jean-Paul Arcangeli. Agent-mediated application emergence through reinforcement learning from user feedback
• Alejandro Rodríguez-Arias, Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas and Noelia Sánchez-Maroño. A FIPA-ACL based communication utility for Unity
• Maxime Houssin, Stephanie Combettes, Marie-Pierre Gleizes and Berangere Lartigue. SANDMAN: a Self-Adapted System for Anomaly Detection in Smart Buildings Data Streams

SHORT PAPER

• Afef Selmi and Zaki Brahmi. PEA: Predicting Expert Agents approach
• Omar Iraqi and Hanan El Bakkali. Immunizer: A Scalable Loosely-Coupled Self-Protecting Software Framework using Adaptive Microagents and Parallelized Microservices

Over its 17 years in existence, ACEC has focused on projects that leverage the adaptability, autonomy and intelligence of first-class software agents for the collaboration that occurs across enterprise software systems. In 2020, the organizers would like to continue to explore research in agent-based computing, but also we will welcome a wider array of projects that leverage adaptive techniques that may not include all the attributes of first class software agents. In addition to our traditional domain areas, i.e. Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Workflow and Supply Chain Management, Automation in Virtual Enterprises, and Automated Distributed Service Composition, we are also interested in new adaptive techniques such as collaboration when organizations leverage emerging web techniques such as Cloud Computing, Crowd-Sourcing and general Social Networking.
In addition to traditional papers, the forthcoming 16th episode of ACEC welcomes papers from two focus areas:

• Adaptive and Agent-based Services
• Adaptive Techniques for Organizational/Enterprise Use of Emerging Web Paradigms (Cloud, Crowd-sourcing, Mobile Apps)

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 at the consumer level (crowd-sourcing) while taking into account the unexpected circumstances and changing scenarios, which frequently occur in organizational ecosystems.

In both of these (above given) contexts, software agents and adaptive software techniques can play an important role. In this respect, ACEC 2020 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 of interests include but are not limited to:

• Adaptive and/or agent-mediated workflow, supply chain, or virtual enterprises
• Methodologies, languages and tools to support agent collaboration
• Agent architectures and infrastructures for dynamic collaboration
• Adaptive and/or Agent-based service architectures and infrastructures
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on agents
• Services for dynamic agent collaboration
• Agent-to-Human service interactions
• Autonomous, Adaptive and/or Agent-mediated service integration
• Organizational and enterprise systems that leverage Web 2.0
• Adaptive and Agent-mediated cloud environments