2003 THEME:
"Agents for Autonomous Processing"FORMAT & PUBLICATION:
The International Workshop ABA this year consists of several Special Tracks at several International Conferences. The papers will be published in the corresponding Conference Proceedings. In addition to that, at the end of the year the revised versions of papers will be published in a single BOOK called "Agents for Business Automation".(selected papers from our
2002 workshop "Agents for Business Automation" are being extended to be published as a special issue in the Elsevier’s International Journal on "E-commerce Research & Applications". Selected papers from our 2001 workshop "Agents for E-business on the Internet" were extended and are to be published as a special issue in the Kluwer’s International Journal on "E-commerce Research")TOPICS:
Automation can help us to carry out various activities in a fast, low-cost, and effective way with minimal human involvement. AGENT technology is one of the most promising tools to implement automation providing AUTONOMOUS PROCESSING of information, knowledge, manufacturing data, and business transactions in an automatic, intelligent, and efficient way.
The goals of this International Workshop are to gather academic and industrial researchers to exchange new ideas and experiences, to initialize new contacts toward future cooperation or to strengthen existing collaborations. We hope to create effective and dynamic forum and connections among academic and industrial researchers, users, and developers.
We welcome papers on architectures, protocols, algorithms, design, evaluation (performance, QoS, security), and implementation techniques, and applications for agent-based systems. Technical issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to:
Special Interests
Applications
Agent Methodologies & Implementation Techniques
PLANNED TRACKS:
(Listed by dates. Please click on the track title to see the track topics)You are invited to submit papers through this
SUBMISSION Web Site. If the files are more than 10Mb then please email them to: aba@cs.newpaltz.edu . Please use the IEEE-format with less than 10 papers for draft papers. After being reviewed, papers may be accepted in two categories: for Presentations and for Posters. The length of the Camera-Ready version of accepted papers will be limited to 7 (presentation) or 4 (poster) IEEE-format pages.Accepted papers will be published in the INTERNET COMPUTING Conference Proceeding and the ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Conference Proceeding by CSREA Press (ISBN) in hard copy. The proceedings will be available at the conference site. In addition to the hard copy, it is also planned to publish the papers on a CD. Selected papers (with extension and revision) will be considered for journal publication. From the last year event, 8 papers of our sessions are chosen to be published in a special issue of the International Journal of E-commerce Research by the Kluwer publisher.
PARTICIPATION:
There is no limit on the number of participants and we hope that you all can come. For the authors who may not be able to present their papers at the conference site, we plan to make a pre-or-post-conference on-line interactive real-time e-forum & presentations (all other authors will also be invited to participate). This is for introduction, questions/answers about papers and related projects, discussions about possible cooperation ... A minute of all discussions will be distributed to the participants.
February 17, 2003 (Monday): Draft papers March 20, 2003 (Thursday): Notification of acceptance April 22, 2003 (Tuesday): Camera-Ready papers
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
(Tentative):Verner Andersen
, Risø National Laboratory, DenmarkOrganizer :
Dr. Hanh Pham
Department of Computer Science
State University of New York
75 S. Manheim Blvd. Suite 6, FOB-08
New Paltz, NY 12561, USA
E-mail: aba@cs.newpaltz.edu
(OR phamh@newpaltz.edu)
URL: http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/
Tel: 1-845-257-3574
Fax: 1-845-257-3996