Date: June 18-20, 2007
Location: Paris, France

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Accepted papers and agenda

The ACEC workshop will be held on Tuesday, 19 June 2007.


9:00 - 9:30 Middle-Agents Interactions As Finite State Processes: Overview and Example (FULL)
Amelia Badica, Costin Badica, Valentin Litoiu

9:30 - 10:00 Intelligent Agent Communication and Collaboration for Web Services Management (FULL)
Michael F. Nowlan, M. Brian Blake

10:00 - 10:30 Service-Oriented Agent Methodologies (FULL)
Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Mariachiara Puviani

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30 Collaborative Trust in Multi-Agent System (FULL)
M. R. Mokhtar, U. Wajid, W. Wang

11:30 - 12:00 Practical Approach to Secure and Trusted Negotiation in MASs (FULL)
Federico Bergenti

12:00 - 12:30 On the Modeling of Agent-based Adaptive Information Systems: An Integration of Operational Roles and Performance Indicators (FULL)
Nora Houari, Behrouz H. Far

12:30 -1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:00 First-Class Protocols for Agent-Based Coordination of Scientific Instruments (FULL)
Tim Miller, Peter McBurney, Jarred McGinnis, Kostas Stathis

2:00 - 2:20 Interaction Context Based Flexible Agent Interactions (SHORT)
Usman Wajid, Nikolay Mehandjiev

2:20 - 3:30 Discussion and ACEC conclusions

3:30 - 4:30 Coffee break

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News
Jun 1^st, 2007: The ACEC agenda is online
Feb 14^th, 2007: The deadline has been extended to March, 4^th
Dec 1^st, 2006: 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.
Following the last year trend, also 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 2007 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
PDF 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 15, 2007. 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):	March 4, 2007
Decision to paper authors:	April 13, 2007
Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE:	May 12, 2007
Advance Registration discount:	June 1, 2007
WETICE-2007:	June 18-20, 2007
Workshop Chairs' final reports due to IEEE:	July 9, 2007

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

Prof. 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

Prof. Giacomo Cabri
Ph.D., Assistant Professor
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
Paul Buhler, College of Charleston
R. Scott Cost, John Hopkins University
Mark Matthews, The MITRE Corporation (USA)
Anca Rarau, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University (Canada)