1^st International Workshop on  
Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration
at 
WETICE-2003

Date: June 9-11, 2003
Location: University of Linz, Linz, Austria

Paper submission deadline extended to March 17, 2003

Report of the workshop
Accepted Papers
Information
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
Here you can find the accepted papers.
1) Daniel Frey, Tim Stockheim, Peer-Oliver Woelk, Roland Zimmermann, Integrated Multi-agent-based Supply Chain Management
2) Stefan Kirn, Christian Heine, Rainer Herrler, Karl-Heinz Krempels, Agent.Hospital - agent-based open framework for clinical applications
3) Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Gabriele Kotsis and Wieland Schwinger, Mapping Abstractions of Norms in Electronic Institutions
4) Giacomo Cabri, Luca Ferrari, Letizia Leonardi, A Case Study in Role-based Agent Interactions
5) Zakaria Maamar, An Agent-based Approach for Specifying a Web Service-oriented Environment

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Information
Details with very useful/important information such as the building, rooms, and maps of the workshop venue.

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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 2003) is a more general continuation of workshops that addressed agents for B2B (business-to-business) collaboration, that have taken place over the last couple of years (http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~blakeb/AgentB2B). As such, 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 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-Agent Collaboration

Protocols for Multiple Agents Collaboration and Negotiation

Agents engaged in competition during interactions

Methodologies, languages and tools to support agent collaboration
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
ACEC 2003 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications, and trends in this research area. 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, 10 pt 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. Authors should also provide contact addresses, if different from the submitting electronic address.

Please submit papers, in PDF or PS format, to either of the Co-Chairs of the Program Committee by March 7, 2003. 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 17, 2003
Decision to paper authors:	April 11, 2003
Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE:	May 16, 2003
WETICE-2003:	June 9-11, 2003
Workshop Chairs' final reports due to IEEE:	June 27, 2003

Co-Chairs:
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
Federico Bergenti, University of Parma (I)
Christoph Bussler, Oracle (USA)
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)
Wathiq Mansoor, Zayed University (United Arab Emirates)
Mark Matthews, The MITRE Corporation (USA)
Bruce McLaren, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Jörg Müller, Siemens (D)
Paolo Petta, OEFAI (Austria)
Anita Raja, University of Massachusetts (USA)
Omer Rana, University of Cardiff (UK)
Anca Rarau, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Jie Xing, IBM (USA)