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Agents and Web Services
Merging in
Distributed Environments |
MOTIVATION
Web services are a rapidly expanding approach to building distributed software systems across networks such as the Internet. A Web service is an operation typically addressed via a URI, declaratively described using widely accepted standards, and accessed via platform-independent XML-based messages.
Agents, on the other hand, are autonomous software entities that inhabit an environment and interact with each other in order to achieve their own goals on behalf of their owners.
Agents and multi-agent systems can benefit from this combination, and can be used for web service discovery, use, composition and implementation. In addition, web services and multi-agent systems bear certain similarities, such as a component-like behaviour, that can help to make their integration much easier.
The AWESOME workshop is an interdisciplinary workshop based on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the development of an intelligent service Web.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Possible topics include, but are not limited to::
- Agent-based modelling and design techniques to address problems in web service system development;
- Agent-based applications to web services;
- Agent-based resource and service management in grid environments;
- Architectures and infrastructure for distributed agent- or service- based frameworks;
- Architectures for supporting agents and web services within the semantic web;
- Autonomic computing applications to web servcices;
- Capability matching and matchmakers;
- Communication patterns for web services;
- Composing agents and web services (on the grid);
- Distributed Environments and grid environments
- Intelligent matchmaking and service brokering;
- Interoperability of web services;
- Issues of trust for web services, agents and ontologies;
- Multi-agent techniques to describing, organizing, and discovering web services;
- Process modeling for service/agent composition, orchestration and coordination;
- Scaleable service composition for heterogeneous environments;
- Security support for agents and services, and agent-based approaches to service security;
- Software engineering for agent-based semantic web services;
- Supporting service discovery and service management using agent-based approaches;
- Use of agent-based approaches for web service personalization;
- Use of context and conversations for Web services composition;
- Use of web service infrastructure and tools for building multi-agent systems;
IMPORTANT DATES
Papers submitted to AWeSOMe’08 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference.
All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be made in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at:
The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.
The paper submission site is located at:
Additionally, the best papers of the workshop will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the Multiagent and Grid Systems (MAGS) journal: http://www.iospress.nl/html/15741702.php
ORGANISATION COMMITTEE
- Jörg
Denzinger
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Tel: (+1) 403 220 5574
Fax: (+1) 403 284 4707
Email: denzinge@cpsc.ucalgary.ca - Pilar
Herrero
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Madrid (Spain)
Tel: (+34) 91.336.74.56
Fax: (+34) 91.336.65.95E
Email: pherrero@fi.upm.es - Gonzalo
Méndez
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Madrid (Spain)
Tel: (+34) 91.394.75.99
Fax: (+34) 91.394.75.29
Email: gmendez@fdi.ucm.es - Rainer
Unland
Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)
University of Duisburg-Essen
Essen, Germany
Tel: (+49) 201-183 3421
Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460
Email: Rainer.Unland@icb.uni-due.de
Program Committee Members (to be confirmed and extended)
- Mohsen Afsharchi - University of Zanjan, Iran
- M Brian Blake - Georgetown University, USA
- José Luis Bosque - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Juan A. Botía Blaya - Universidad de Murcia, Spain
- Ramon Brena - Centro de Sistemas Inteligentes, ITESM Campus Monterrey, México.
- Scott Buffett - National Research Council Canada, Canada
- Paul Buhler - College of Charleston, USA
- Blanca Caminero - Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain
- Jose Cardoso - Universidad Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- Adam Cheyer - SRI International, USA
- Ian Dickinson - HP Labs, UK
- Maria Fasli - University of Essex, UK
- Roberto A Flores - Christopher Newport University, USA
- Dominic Greenwood - Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland
- Jingshan Huang - Benedict College, USA
- Dan Marinescu - University of Central Florida, USA
- Gregorio Martínez - Universidad de Murcia, Spain
- Viviana Mascardi - Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
- Michael Maximilien - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
- Barry Norton - Open University, UK
- Julian Padget - University of Bath, UK
- Mauricio Paletta - Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, Venezuela
- José Peña - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- María Pérez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Manuel Salvadores - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Alberto Sánchez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Candelaria Sansores - Universidad del Caribe, México
- Marius-Calin Silaghi - Florida Institute of Technology, USA
- Santtu Toivonen - Idean Enterprises, Finland
- Julita Vassileva - University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- Yao Wang - University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- Chengqi Zhang - University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Henry Tirri - Nokia Research Center(NRC), Finland
- Ángel Lucas González Martínez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Antonio Garcia Dopico - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain