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

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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
 
"Interval-valued Probabilistic Reasoning Agents"
Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Phan Duong Hieu
University Of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
 
"Pass Planning and Decision Making for Distributed Soccer Agents in Dynamic Workspace"
Worasing Rinsurongkawong, Thitipong Tanprasert
Assumption University
 
"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
 
 

CHAIR/CONTACT:

Dr. Hanh Pham
Department of Computer Science
State University of New York at New Paltz
75 S. Manheim Blvd. Suite 6
New Paltz, NY 12561, USA
E-mail: phamh@newpaltz.edu
Web: http://www.newpaltz.edu/~phamh/
Tel: 1-845-257-3574
Fax: 1-845-257-3996

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Verner Andersen , Riso National Laboratory, Denmark
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research, USA
Michael Berger,SIEMENS
Martin Bichler, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Alex Bronstein, Hewlett-Packard Lab
Bernhard Bauer, Augsburg University
Darrel Davis , University of Hull, UK
Prithviraj Dasgupta , University of Nebraska, USA
Joerg Denzinger , University of Calgary, Canada
Bruno Dillenseger , France Telecom R&D, France
Dave Cliff, Hewlett-Packard Lab
Bezalel Gavish, Edwin L. Cox School of Business, USA
Robert Ghanea-Hercock , British Telecom, UK
Robert Guttman, IBM Watson Research Center
Peter Haddawy , University of Wisconsin & AIT
Yuh-Jong Hu, NCCU, Taiwan
Lakhmi Jain , University of South Australia, Australia
Juhnyoung Lee , IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Jae Kyu Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Benoit Leloup, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France
Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Lab
Jiming Liu , Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Alexander Nareyek, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Wee-Keong Ng , Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chihiro Ono , KDDI R&D Lab, Japan
Hanh Pham , State University of New York, USA
Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA
Ravi Putchala, Oracle
Eugene Santos Jr. , University of Connecticut, USA
Hajime Sawamura , Niigata University, Japan
Sandip Sen, University of Tulsa, USA
Nahid Shahmehri, Linkoping University, Sweden
Michael Stroebel , BMW, Germany
Bruce Spencer , National Research Council & University of New Brunswick, Canada
Gheorghe Tecuci , George Mason University, USA
Son Tran , New Mexico State University, USA
Do Van Thanh , University of Oslo, Telenor R&D, Norway
Thomas Wagner , Honeywell Labs, Honeywell International