2^nd International Workshop on  
Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration
at 
WETICE-2004

Date: June 14-16, 2004
Location: University of Modena, Italy
Report of the workshop
News
Accepted Papers and agenda
Overview
Topics
Call for Papers
Submission of papers
Important dates
Chairs
Program Committee

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Report of the workshop
The report slides of the workshop are available.

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Accepted papers and agenda
The ACEC workshop will be held on Monday, 14 June 2004.

Morning
10.30 - 11.00: Ismail Khalil-Ibrahim, Gabriele Kotsis, Reinhard Kronsteiner, Substitution Rules for the Verification of Norm-Compliance in Electronic Institutions.
11.00 - 11.30: Giacomo Cabri, Luca Ferrari, Letizia Leonardi, Towards the Use of Mobile Agent Based Message Systems.
11.30 - 12.00: Antonella Di Stefano, Corrado Santoro, Designing Collaborative Agents with eXAT.
12.00 - 12.30: Discussion on presented papers

Afternoon
1.30 - 2.00: Federico Bergenti, Marco Mari and Mercedes Garijo, Collaborator - Enabling Enterprise Collaboration through Agents.
2.00 - 2.30: A.M. Abdoessalam and N. Mehandjiev, Collaborative Negotiation in Web Service Procurement.
2.30 - 3.00: Franco Guidi-Polanco, Claudio Cubillos, The Agent-Based GAP: a Framework for Global Automation Systems.
3.00 - 3.30 Sentil Selliah, Ramana Reddy, Jinqiao Yu, Vijay Bharadwaj, Sumitra Reddy, Eksarva: A Framework for Enabling Agent-Based Collaboration.
3.30 - 4.00: Break
4.00 - 4.30: David P. Heroux, Illuminating Data Sources as Founts of Agent based Collaboration.
4.30 - 5.00: Dario Bianchi and Agostino Poggi, Ontology Based Automatic Speech Recognition and Generation for Human-Agent Interaction.
5.00 - 5.30: Discussion on presented papers
5.30 - 6.30: Wrap-up of the workshop and future directions

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News
We are exploring the possibility of publishing extended versions of WETICE best papers in a journal. Currently we are in contact with the IEEE Transactions of Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. It will be confirmed soon.

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 of 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. The purpose of this workshop is to explore research where protocols for agent control can benefit these domains of collaboration. We also are interested in work that explores competition among agents that interact.

This workshop on Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration (ACEC 2004) is a continuation of an earlier workshop at WETICE 2003 held in Linz, Austria. ACEC 2004 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 agentmediation and management of services and/or products of on-line businesses.

Topics
Topics of interests include but are not limited to:
Agent Computing for Collaborative Electronic Markets

Agent-mediated workflow, supply chain, or virtual enterprises

Agent-based collaboration and communication languages

Methodologies, languages and tools to support agent collaboration

Software agent architectures for B2B or B2C collaboration

Industrial applications using agents for on-line collaboration

Incorporation of Agents in B2B document and interchange standards

Protocols and modeling for Agent-mediated collaboration

Applications for integrating e-markets, Internet, etc.
Agent-to-Human Collaboration

Interface or Middle Agents to Support Business Collaboration

HCI Design issues for Collaborative Agents

New Paradigms for Agent-to-Human Interactions

Industrial applications using proxy agents in Enterprise Collaboration

Call for Papers
PDF version

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 either of the Co-Chairs of the Program Committee by March 12, 2004. All submitted papers will be peerreviewed 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.

Important dates

Deadline for paper submission (EXTENDED):	March 12, 2004
Decision to paper authors (EXTENDED):	April 16, 2004
Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE:	May 21, 2004
WETICE-2004:	June 14-16, 2004
Workshop Chairs' final reports due to IEEE:	July 2, 2004

Co-Chairs:
Dr. Federico Bergenti
Researcher
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni
Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A
43100 Parma, Italy
E-mail: bergenti@ce.unipr.it
Tel.: +39 0521 905708
Fax: +39 0521 905723

Dr. M. Brian Blake

Assistant Professor Dept of Computer Science Georgetown University 234 Reiss Science Building Washington, DC 20057 Phone: (202) 687-3084 Fax: (703) 883-1917 Email:blakeb@cs.georgetown.edu

Lead Software System Engineer Consultant Center for Advanced Aviation System Development The MITRE Corporation (CAASD) 7515 Colshire Drive N420 McLean, VA 22102 (703) 883-7894 bblake@mitre.org

Dr. Giacomo Cabri
Ph.D., Research Associate
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia
e-mail giacomo.cabri@unimo.it
tel. +39-059-2056190
fax +39-059-2056129


Program Committee
Jorge Cardoso, University of Madeira (P)
Scott Cost, UMBC (USA)
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota (USA)
Rune Gustavsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden)
Srinivas Krovvidy, Fannie Mae Corporation (USA)
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University (United Arab Emirates)
Mark Matthews, The MITRE Corporation (USA)
Bruce McLaren, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Jörg Müller, Siemens (D)
Terry Payne, University of Southampton (UK)
Paolo Petta, OEFAI (Austria)
Anita Raja, University of University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA)
Omer Rana, University of Cardiff (UK)
Anca Rarau, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Tom Wagner, Honeywell Labs (USA)