4^th International Workshop on  
Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration
Agent-Oriented Workflows and Services
at 
WETICE-2006

Date: June 26-28, 2006
Location: The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.
Deadline extended to February 24
News
Accepted Papers and agenda
Overview
Topics
Call for Papers
Submission of papers
Important dates
Chairs
Program Committee

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Accepted papers and agenda
The ACEC workshop will be held on Tuesday, 27 June 2006.

11.00 - 11.15 ACEC introduction

11.15 - 11.45 "Agent Interaction Protocols And Flexible Agent Interaction in Dynamic Environments", Usman Wajid, Nikolay Mehandjiev
11.45 - 12. 15 "A Multi-Agent Framework to Join DTV and Virtual Communities", Federico Bergenti, Lorenzo Lazzari, Agostino Poggi
12.15 - 12.45 "Supporting a territorial emergency scenario with Services and Agents", Giacomo Cabri, Francesco De Mola, Raffaele Quitadamo
12.45 - 13.00 Discussion

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 14.30 "WebService = E + F + I", Zakaria Maamar, Djamal Benslimane, Emad Batineh
14.30 - 15.00 "Multi-Dimensional Performance Framework for Enterprise Knowledge Infrastructures", Joe Bolinger, Jay Ramanathan

15.00 - 15.30 Discussion and workshop conclusions

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News
The accepted papers and the agenda are online
The ACEC Web page is online


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 amoung 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.
This year, the Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration (ACEC) workshop will concentrate on two main themes:
- Agent Oriented Workflow
- Agent Oriented Services
These two themes have emerged as important in the past years at WETICE. Workflow is relevant to enterprises, and implies important issues related to collaboration. Workflow models incorporate the interaction between software mechanisms in addition to the organizational collaboration that takes place among human stakeholders. With the popularity and pervasivenes 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. In both of these contexts, software agents can play an important role.
ACEC 2006 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
Topics of interests include but are not limited to:
Agent Oriented Workflow

Agent-mediated workflow, supply chain, or virtual enterprises

Methodologies, languages and tools to support agent collaboration

Agent architectures and infrastructures for collaboration

Agent-based collaboration

Agent-based workflow applications
Agent Oriented Services

Agent-based service architectures and infrastructures

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on agents

Services for agent collaboration

Agent-to-Human service interactions

Agent-mediated service integration

Call for Papers
TXT version

Submission of papers
Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere, and references to related state-of-theart 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 singlespaced, 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 Feb 10, 2006. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed 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):	February 24, 2006
Decision to paper authors:	April 7, 2006
Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE:	May 26, 2006
Advance Registration discount:	June 2, 2006
WETICE-2006:	June 26-28, 2006
Workshop Chairs' final reports due to IEEE:	July 12, 2006

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

Associate 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
Scott Cost, UMBC (USA)
Rune Gustavsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden)
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University (United Arab Emirates)
Anita Raja, University of University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA)
Anca Rarau, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University (Canada)