About the Workshop
The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of service oriented computing and intelligent systems and technologies, and to promote cross-fertilization of ideas and techniques between these fields. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence and semantic technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, and adaptability.
The deadline for all ICSOC workshops has been extended to October 13, 2008 11:59pm, PST
Topics
We invite papers that address significant developments at the intersections of service oriented computing and intelligent systems and technologies. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:- Intelligent management frameworks and platforms for service-oriented computing
- Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes
- Semantic service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering
- Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography
- Intelligent monitoring, control and exception-handling for service execution and delivery
- Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements
- Intelligent techniques and frameworks for dynamic service processes and workflows
- Integration and management of agent-based services and service-oriented agents
- Self-managed service compositions and processes that exhibit intelligent adaptive and autonomic properties
- Agent and semantic web-enabled service business models and applications, and lessons learned
Submission and Publication
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Springer/LNCS camera-ready format and be submitted electronically in PDF to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ispm08
Papers should not exceed 15 pages, including all references and figures. All submissions should include title, authors, and full contact information. Detailed instructions for authors are available on the LNCS website at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings with Springer-Verlag’s LNCS. A selection of best papers will also be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of the papers to a special issue of a major international journal.
Important Dates
| Submission Deadline | |
| Notification of Acceptance | 3 November 2008 |
| Camera-ready Submission | 15 November 2008 |
| Workshop | 1 December 2008 |
Organising Committee
| Alan Colman | Swinburne University of Technology |
| Ryszard Kowalczyk | Swinburne University of Technology |
| Chengfei Liu | Swinburne University of Technology |
| Bao Vo | Swinburne University of Technology |
| Yun Yang | Swinburne University of Technology |
Program Committee
| Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz | Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland |
| Youcef Baghdadi | Sultan Qaboos University, Oman |
| Jamal Bentahar | Concordia University, Canada |
| M. Brian Blake | Georgetown University, USA |
| Peter Braun | The Agent Factory GmbH, Germany |
| Jiangbo Dang | Siemens Corporate Research, USA |
| Prashant Doshi | University of Georgia, USA |
| Mauro Gaspari | University of Bologna, Italy |
| Dominic Greenwood | Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland |
| Jun Han | Swinburne University of Technology |
| Jingshan Huang | University of South Carolina, USA |
| Margaret Lyell | Intelligent Automation Inc., USA |
| André Ludwig | University of Leipzig, Germany |
| Zakaria Maamar | Zayed University, Dubai, UAE |
| Michael Mrissa | Namur University, Belgium |
| Xuan Thang Nguyen | Monash University, Australia |
| Manuel Núñez | Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain |
| Leo Obrst | The MITRE Corporation, USA |
| Julian Padget | University of Bath, UK |
| Giovanna Petrone | University of Torino, Italy |
| Ajith Ranabahu | Wright State University, USA |
| Marwan Sabbouh | The MITRE Corporation, USA |
| Francisco Garcia Sánchez | University of Murcia, Spain |
| Michael Sheng | University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Rainer Unland | University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
| Hamdi Yahyaoui | University of Sharjah, UAE |
| Jun Yan | Wollongong University, Australia |
| Xiaohui Zhao | Swinburne University, Australia |
Further Information
| Alan Colman | Centre for Information Technology Research Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology John Street, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia +61 3 9214 8771 acolman@ict.swin.edu.au |