PROGRAM
International Workshop on " Agents for Business Automation "
June 24-27, 2002,  Monte-Carlo Resort, Las-Vegas, USA


Program-Outline Schedule-Details List Of Papers with References


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SCHEDULE OUTLINE

REGISTRATION

JUNE 23, 2002 (SUNDAY), 06:00 - 09:00pm: (Second Floor, Conference Section)
JUNE 24, 2002 (MONDAY), 06:30am - 6:00pm: (Second Floor, Conference Section)

CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER

JUNE 24, 2002 (MONDAY), 09:00 - 11:00pm: (Location: Meeting Rooms: 1 - 5) 

PRESENTATIONS-TALKS

WORKSHOP 9-IC :  Agents for Business Automation (parallel to SESSION 6+7)
                 June 25, 2002 (Tuesday),02:40 - 06:00pm
                 (LOCATION : Meeting Room 7)

WORKSHOP 6-ICAI: AGENTS FOR BUSINESS AUTOMATION
                 June 26, 2002 (Wednesday),10:40 - 02:40pm
                 (Location: Meeting Room 1)

POSTERS-DISCUSSIONS

DISCUSSION SESSION A-ICAI:
JUNE 24 (MONDAY), 10:45 - 11:45am
Location: Meeting Rooms: 6 - 8
&&
June 26 (Wednesday), 10:40 - 02:40pm
Location: Meeting Room 1
12:20 - 01:20pm: (during LUNCH)
DISCUSSION SESSION B-IC:
JUNE 26 (WEDNESDAY), 10:00 - 10:30am
Location: Meeting Rooms: 6 - 8
&&
June 25 (Tuesday), 02:40 - 06:00pm
Location: Meeting Room 7
03:20 - 03:40pm : (during the Break)

WORKSHOP Social & Discussion Gathering:
JUNE 23, 2002 (SUNDAY): Meet at around 08:30pm, at the Registration Desk (Second Floor, Conference Section)
JUNE 24, 2002 (MONDAY): Meet at around 08:45pm, right before the CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER (Meeting Rooms: 1-5)
JUNE 25, 2002 (TUESDAY): Meet at around 06:00pm for dinner, SHOWS,... (Location: Meeting Room 7)
JUNE 26, 2002 (WEDNESDAY): Meet at around 12:20pm for LUNCH (Location: Meeting Room 1)
JUNE 26-27, 2002 (WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY): Lake Mead & Hooper Damn tour.

SCHEDULE DETAILS

JUNE 23, 2002 (SUNDAY)

06:00 - 09:00pm: REGISTRATION (Second Floor, Conference Section)

JUNE 24, 2002 (MONDAY)

06:30am - 6:00pm: REGISTRATION (Second Floor, Conference Section)

08:25 - 10:45am: 

MultiConference Opening Remarks
MultiConference Keynote Lecture 1 
MultiConference Keynote Lecture 2

For more details and schedules of other 14 Conferences please visit:

http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences


JUNE 24, 2002 (MONDAY)

DISCUSSION SESSION-1 (at IC-AI-2002) of "Agents for Business Automation "

DISCUSSION SESSION A-ICAI
JUNE 24 (MONDAY), 2002, 10:45 - 11:45am
Location: Meeting Rooms: 6 - 8

O. "Interval-valued Probabilistic Reasoning Agents"
     Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Phan Duong Hieu
     University Of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Ecole Normale Superieure, France

O. "Pass Planning and Decision Making for Distributed Soccer Agents in Dynamic Workspace"
    Worasing Rinsurongkawong, Thitipong Tanprasert
    Assumption University

O. "IMPROVE: An Innovative Market for e-Procurement "
    Kameshwaran S. , Narahari Y.
    Indian Institute of Science, India 

JUNE 25, 2002 (TUESDAY)

(*) Track-A: (at IC-IC-2002) " Internet Agents for Business Automation "

WORKSHOP 9-IC :  Agents for Business Automation (parallel to SESSION 6+7)
                 June 25, 2002 (Tuesday), 02:40 - 06:00pm
                 (LOCATION : Meeting Room 7)

02:40 - 02:50pm :  Workshop Opening 

02:50 - 03:05pm :  "Building Agent-Based Intelligent Workspaces"
                   Nicholas Hanssens, Ajay Kulkarni, Rattapoom Tuchinda, and Tyler Horton 
                   Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT

03:05 - 03:20pm :  "Agent Visibility and Invisibility in Real-Time Agent-based Business Systems"
                   Hanh Pham, Yiming Ye, Chirakkal Easwaran
                   State University of New York at New Paltz, T.J.Watson Research Center IBM

03:20 - 03:40pm :  Break
 
03:40 - 03:55pm :  "An Agent-Based Approach for Integrating Logistics Services into a B2B Marketplace"
                   Andreas Gerber, Christian Russ, Matthias Klusch
                   German Resaerch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany

03:55 - 04:10pm : "Evolution of Market Mechanism Through a Continuous Space of Auction-Types II: Two-Sided Auction 
                    Mechanisms Evolve in Response to Market Shocks"
                   Dave Cliff
                   Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, U.K.

04:10 - 04:35pm : "Automated Sales and Supply Control of Enterprise Systems via Agent Cluster Networks"
                   Wolf Kohn and Vladimir Brayman
                   Hynomics Corporation
 
04:35 - 04:50pm :  "Travel Support System - an Agent Based Framework"
                   Marcin Paprzycki, Rafal Angryk and Violetta Galant
                   Oklahoma State Univ., USA; Tulane Univ., New Orleans USA; Wrocaw Univ., Poland

04:50 - 05:05pm :  "Designing Intelligent Agents to Support Universal Accessibility of the World Wide Web"
                   E. Pontelli and Son Cao Tran
                   New Mexico State University, USA
 
05:05 - 05:20pm :  "A Fault Tolerance Mechanism for MAgNET: A Mobile Agent Based E-commerce System"
                   Prithviraj Dasgupta
                   University of Nebraska, USA
 
05:20 - 05:25pm : "Supporting Executive Intelligence Activities with Intelligent Agents"
                   Vincent Ong, Yanqing Duan, Mark Xu
                   University of Luton, UK.

05:25 - 05:30pm : "Software Agents: Enabling Dynamic Supply Chain Management for a Build to Order Product Line"
                   Tom Wagner, Valerie Guralnik, John Phelps
                   Honeywell Laboratories

05:30 - 06:00pm :  PANEL DISCUSSION : "Agents for Negotiation & Dynamic Pricing",  Prithviraj Dasgupta and Benoit Leloup


JUNE 26, 2002 (WEDNESDAY)

DISCUSSION SESSION - 2 (at IC-IC-2002) of "Agents for Business Automation "

DISCUSSION SESSION B-IC
JUNE 26 (WEDNESDAY), 2002, 10:00 - 10:30am
Location: Meeting Rooms: 6 - 8

O. "The Effect on Locus of Control of Webguides and Chatbots in Online Banking"
      Esther Woodhams and Mervyn Jack  
     Univ. of Edinburgh, UK  (Short Paper)

O. "CyberSleuth: Dynamic Payload and Mobility Experiment" 
    Binh Q. Nguyen    
   U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA (Short Paper)

 

(*) Track-B: (at IC-AI-2002) "Intelligent Agents for Business Automation"

WORKSHOP 6-ICAI:  AGENTS FOR BUSINESS AUTOMATION
                  June 26, 2002 (Wednesday),10:40 - 02:40pm
                  (Location: Meeting Room 1)

10:40 - 11:00am: "Knowledgeable Objects as Data Agents for Business Automation"
                 Hanh Pham, Yiming Ye
                 State University of New York at New Paltz, T.J.Watson Research Center IBM

11:00 - 11:15am: "An Efficient Combinatorial Auction for Sequentially Arriving Bidders"
                 Eiichiro Kazumori, Chihiro Ono, Satoshi Nishiyama and Hiroki Horiuchi
                 Stanford Univ., USA, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan

11:15 - 11:30am: "Dynamic Pricing With Local Interactions: Logistic Priors And Agent Technology "
                 Benoit Leloup
                 ENST - Bretagne, France

11:30 - 11:45pm: "Agent-Based Design of Electronic Intermediaries"
                 Marijn Janssen and Alexander Verbraeck
                 Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
11:45 - 12:05pm: "Heterogeneous Uncertain Information Fusion Using Adaptive Multiagent System"
                 Mohamed Ben Ahmed, Montaceur Zaghdoud, Belgacem Raggad
                 ENSI Univ. of La Manouba, Tunisia

12:05 - 12:20pm: "Towards a Framework for Agent Visualization"
                  R. Curwen and A. Papantoniou
                  Univ. of Loughborough, UK, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece

12:20 - 01:20pm: LUNCH BREAK

01:20 - 01:35pm: "Auctioning Strategies in an Agent Enabled Peer to Peer Marketplace"
                 Prithviraj Dasgupta and Vana Kageroraki
                 Univ. of Nebraska, USA;   Hewlett-Packard Labs., USA

01:35 - 01:50pm: "An Efficient Winner Determination Algorithm for Combinatorial Ascending Auctions"
                 Chihiro Ono, Satoshi Nishiyama and Hiroki Horiuchi
                 KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan,   Stanford Univ., USA,

01:50 - 01:55pm: "A Multi-Agent System to Manage Workflows"
                 Ernesto Montaldo, Roberto Sacile and Antonio Boccalatte 
                 Univ. of Genoa, Italy

01:55 - 02:10pm: "A Cooperative Multi-Agent System for Plan Generation in Batch Manufacturing"
                 Chunhua Ju and Yongjian Fu
                 Hangzhou Univ. of Commerce, P. R. China; Univ. of Missouri-Rolla, USA

02:10 - 02:15pm: "Evaluation of an E-commerce Agent"
                 Verner Andersen and Hans H. K. Andersen
                 Riso National Laboratory, Denmark

02:15 - 02:40pm:  PANEL DISCUSSION : " Experiences & Learned Lessons in Applying Agents for E-business in Japan Market" & "Issues and Challengers in Agent-based Business Automation", Chihiro Ono  and Hanh Pham

02:40pm :  Workshop Closing Remarks



If you have questions regarding the program & schedule please CONTACT:


Dr. Hanh Pham 
Department of Computer Science 
State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz 
75 S. Manheim Blvd. Suite 6, FOB-08
New Paltz, NY 12561, USA 
E-mail: phamh@newpaltz.edu ( please kindly put "ABA-02" in the subject field -> for the email filters )
Web: http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA-02/ 
Tel: 1-845-257-3574 
Fax: 1-845-257-3996