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SOCASE'2008
The International Workshop on
Service-Oriented Computing:
Agents, Semantics, and Engineering
http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2008/
to
be held at
The Seventh International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS'2008)
11 May 2008, Estoril, Portugal
http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/
The purpose of this workshop is to
present and discuss the recent significant developments at the
intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technology, and
Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques.
In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent
System 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.
Call for Papers
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) has been emerging in recent years and is by now
an established paradigm for distributed computing and e-business
processing. SOC utilizes services as fundamental building blocks
to enable the development of agile networks of collaborating business
applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries.
Services are self-contained, platform-independent software components that
can be described, published, discovered, orchestrated, and deployed for the
purpose of developing distributed applications across large heterogeneous
networks such as the Internet.
Software agents and multi-agent systems
in particular are also aimed at the development of distributed
applications, however, from a different but complementary perspective.
Service-oriented paradigms are mainly focused on syntactical and
declarative definitions of software components, their interfaces,
communication channels, and capabilities with the aim for creating
interoperable and reliable infrastructures. In contrast, multi-agent
systems centre on the development of reasoning and planning capabilities of
autonomous problem solvers that apply behavioral concepts such as
interaction, collaboration, or negotiation in order to create flexible and
fault-tolerant distributed systems for dynamic and uncertain environments.
Also semantic technologies enable seamless interoperability between
different applications and systems. This is particularly important in
distributed systems operating in open and dynamic environments where data
and services come from multiple sources.
The purpose of this workshop is to
present and discuss the recent significant developments at the
intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technology, and
Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of
techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from
Multi-agent System 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 Service-Oriented Computing: Agents,
Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE) workshop continues the theme of
previous SOCASE workshop successfully held at AAMAS'07, the SOCABE
workshops held at AAMAS'06, AAMAS'05 and the WSABE workshops held at
AAMAS'04 and AAMAS'03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide spectrum
of issues of the cross section between agent-based and service-oriented
paradigms.
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The purpose of this workshop is to
present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections
of Intelligent Multi-agent Systems, Service-oriented Computing and Semantic
Web Services, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In
particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent
System 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.
We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of agent
technology, Semantic Web services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks,
and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and
Semantic Web systems
- Agent-oriented modeling and design methods
and tools for service-oriented software and Semantic Web development
- Web services and Semantic Web technologies
and standards for multi-agent system design, development and
integration
- Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and
optimization of services and processes
- Agent-based service description,
advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering
- Agent-based service composition,
orchestration, and choreography
- Agent-based monitoring and
exception-handling for service execution and delivery
- Agent-based negotiation and management of
Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements
- Deployment and distribution of agent-based
service systems and service-oriented agent systems
- Agent-based service business models, application
scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and
lessons learned
- Ontology matching for service discovery,
negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution
- Ontology generation, learning and reasoning,
and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents
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Two types of submissions are available:
regular submissions of length 3000-4000 words (approx. 8-12 printed pages)
and position papers of length 1200-2000 words (approx. 4-6 printed pages).
Position papers (and some regular papers) may be presented as part of
themed discussion panels; preference may be given to position papers that
take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics.
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.
Since this is associated with the AAMAS
conference, accepted papers must be of real relevance to the multi-agent
research community.
Accepted papers will be made available
in electronic form prior to the workshop and a printed collection will be
available at the workshop. As exercised with previous workshops' best
papers, the SOCASE 2008 workshop proceedings may form the basis of a
journal special issue, subject to appropriate number and quality of
submissions.
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The workshop will aim to foster
discussion and develop action outcomes on key issues relating to designing,
building and managing systems using services and software agents. In
addition to regular presentations, a number of discussion panels on
identified important themes are also planned.
Attendance may be restricted by the
venue. A separate call for participation will be distributed at about the
time of acceptance notification. If attendance needs to be limited then
preference will be given first to presenters and next to other authors who
submitted.
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As per the call for proposals, the
workshop will adhere to the specified deadlines for submission and
notification.
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Submission deadline
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1
February 2008
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Acceptance notification
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25 February 2006
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Camera-ready copies deadline
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05
March 2006
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Proceedings ready
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19 March 2006
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Workshop held
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12 0o 13 May 2006
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Programme
TBC
Organising
Committee
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Ryszard Kowalczyk
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Faculty of Information and
Communication Technologies
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Swinburne University of Technology
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John Street, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
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   +61 3 9214 5834
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rkowalczyk@ict.swin.edu.au
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Michael Huhns
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Department of Computer Science and
Engineering
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Swearingen Engineering Center
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University of South Carolina
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Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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huhns@sc.edu
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Matthias Klusch
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German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH)
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Deduction and Multiagent
Systems
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Building D3.2, R +1.26
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Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
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klusch@dfki.de
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Zakaria Maamar
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College of Information Systems
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Zayed University
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae
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Quoc Bao Vo
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(primary contact)
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Faculty of Information and
Communication Technologies
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Swinburne University of Technology
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John Street, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
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bvo@ict.swin.edu.au
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Programme
Committee
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Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz
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Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
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Youcef Baghdadi
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Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
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Djamal Benslimane
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Lyon 1 University, France
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Jamal Bentahar
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Concordia
University, Canada
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Brian M. Blake
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Georgetown
University, USA
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Peter Braun
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The Agent Factory GmbH, Germany
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Paul A. Buhler
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College of
Charleston, USA
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Jiangbo Dang
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Siemens Corporate Research, USA
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Manuel Nñ¥º Garcí¡¼/p>
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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Mauro Gaspari
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University of
Bologna, Italy
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Karthik Gomadam
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University of
Georgia, USA
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Jingshan Huang
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University of
South Carolina, USA
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W.J. van den Heuvel
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Tilburg University, The Netherlands
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Patrick Hung
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University of
Ontario, Canada
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N.C. Narendra
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IBM India Research Lab, India
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Leo Obrst
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The MITRE Corporation, USA
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Julian A. Padget
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University of
Bath, UK
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Maurice Pagnucco
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University of New
South Wales, Australia
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Pavel Shvaiko
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University of Trento, Italy
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Terry Payne
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University of
Southampton, UK
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Giovanna Petrone
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University of Torino, Italy
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Debbie Richards
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Macquarie
University, Australia
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Marwan Sabbouh
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The MITRE Corporation, USA
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Quan Z. Sheng
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University of
Adelaide, Australia
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Jie Tang
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Tsinghua University, China
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Huaglory Tianfield
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Caledonian University Glasgow, UK
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Kunal Verma
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Accenture Technology Labs Palo Alto, USA
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Steve Wilmott
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Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
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