International Workshop on
" Agents for Business Automation "
At the 2002 International Conference on Internet Computing & International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
( part of a 14-Joint-Conference event: PDPTA,IC,AI,METMBS, IKE, CMSRA ... )


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June 24-27, 2002,  Monte-Carlo Resort, Las-Vegas, USA


an 'Agent'   of   Paris   in Las-Vegas

  

TOPICS:

Regardless of economical situation, efficiency is always a principle goal in conducting business. Automation can help us to carry out business in a fast, low-cost, and effective way with minimal human involvement. AGENT technology is one of the most promising tools to implement BUSINESS AUTOMATION autonomously, intelligently, and efficiently. The goals of this workshop are to gather academic as well as industrial researchers to exchange new ideas and experiences, to initialize new connections toward future cooperation or to strengthen existing collaborations.

Based on the last year event we plan to have two tracks at two conferences: IC-AI-2002 and IC-IC-2002
(*) Track-A: (at IC-IC-2002) " Internet Agents for Business Automation "
(*) Track-B: (at IC-AI-2002) " Intelligent Agents for Business Automation "

We welcome papers on formalism, frameworks, architectures, algorithms, protocols, design, evaluation (performance, QoS, security), implementation techniques, and applications for business agent-based systems. Technical issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

Special Interests

Applications

  • Personal Agents
  • Virtual Agent-based Office
  • E-Management and E-Control with Agents
  • E-Trade and E-Marketplace with Agents
  • E-Payment and E-Banking with Agents
  • Financial & Investment Agent-Based Applications
  • Agent-based Supply Chains & B2B systems 
  • Agents for Games on the Internet
  • Wireless Agent-Based Systems 
  • Semantic Web & Agents
  • Large-Scale E-Business Agent-Based Systems

Agent Methodologies

  • Agent Learning
  • Agent Negotiation
  • Agent Trusts & Trust-based Actions
  • Agent Cooperation/Competition
  • AI Techniques: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, GA ... for Agents
  • Agent Coordination for Cooperative Works
  • Agent Communication/Interaction
  • Agent Security and Authentication
  • Agent Visualization
  • Agent and Multi-agent Architectures/Infrastructures
  • Distributed and Real-Time Techniques for Agent Implementation

  

SUBMISSION:

You are invited to submit papers through this SUBMISSION Web Site . If the files are more than 1Mb then please email them to this address: aba@ecity.cs.newpaltz.edu . Draft papers can be in any format but should not be more than 15 pages. After reviewing papers can be accepted in two categories: for Presentations and for Posters. There is no limit on the number of accepted papers though new ideas are our preferences. The length of the Camera-Ready version of accepted papers will be limited to 7 (presentation) or 4 (poster) IEEE-format pages. Please provide: paper Title, your Names, contact E-mail, Affiliation and Address, Keywords (about 5), and Abstract in your email or at the Submission Web site.

 

PUBLICATION:

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.

 

CONFERENCE EVENTS:

The last Joint conferences attracted over 1400 computer science researchers. It is anticipated that The 2002 International Joint conferences will attract about 2000 participants. The 2002 event will be composed of 14 (planned) international conferences - attendees will have full access to all 14 conferences' sessions and tracks.

  1. The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
  2. The 2002 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
  3. The 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
  4. The 2002 International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
  5. The 2002 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
  6. The 2002 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
  7. The 2002 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
  8. The 2002 International Conference on VLSI (VLSI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
  9. The 2002 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
  10. International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning and Applications (CMSRA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) (CMSRA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
  11. The 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
  12. The 2002 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
  13. The 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
  14. The 2002 International Conference on Security Management (SAM'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

( a link to each conference's URL is available from http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences )

 

PARTICIPATION:

There is no limit on the number of participants and we hope that you can come to our workshop in Las-Vegas this Summer. 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.

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

EXTENDED to March 12, 2002 (Monday): Draft papers 
March 21, 2002 (Thursday) - EXTENDED !!! : Notification of acceptance
May 3, 2002 (Monday): Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: (current list ...)

Verner Andersen , Risø National Laboratory, Denmark
Bernard Burg, Hewlett-Packard Lab
Darrel Davis , University of Hull, UK
Prithviraj Dasgupta , University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Andrew Davenport , IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Joerg Denzinger , University of Calgary, Canada
Bruno Dillenseger , France Télécom R&D, France
Robert Guttman , Frictionless Commerce
Robert Ghanea-Hercock , British Telecom, UK
Peter Haddawy , University of Wisconsin & Asian Institute of Technology
Lakhmi Jain , University of South Australia, Australia
Sverker Janson , Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Juhnyoung Lee , IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Benoit Leloup, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France
Henry Lieberman , MIT Media Lab, USA
Jiming Liu , Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Wee-Keong Ng , Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chihiro Ono , KDDI R&D Lab, Japan
Marcin Paprzycki , Oklahoma State University, USA
Hanh Pham , State University of New York, USA
Eugene Santos Jr. , University of Connecticut, USA
Hajime Sawamura , Niigata University, Japan
Michael Stroebel , IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Bruce Spencer , National Research Council & University of New Brunswick, Canada
Gheorghe Tecuci , George Mason University, USA
Jeffrey E. Teich , New Mexico State University, USA
Do Van Thanh , University of Oslo, Telenor R&D, Norway
Amund Tveit, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Thomas Wagner , Honeywell Labs, Honeywell International
Yiming Ye , IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

 

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: aba@ecity.cs.newpaltz.edu (OR phamh@newpaltz.edu)
Web: http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA-02/
Tel: 1-845-257-3574
Fax: 1-845-257-3996