Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2011

August 4 – 8, 2011, Detroit, MI

 

Mini-rack: Multi-Agent Systems and Semantic Technologies

(Sponsored by SIGABIS)

 

Mini-Track Co-Chairs:

Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA

Stefan Kirn, Universität Hohenheim, Germany

 

Multi-agent systems and semantic technologies have been recognized as one of the most important Information Technologies and have received considerable attention from both academia and industry. Significant progress has been made over the last few years in the development of multi-agent systems and semantic web applications in a variety of fields such as electronic commerce, supply chain management, resource allocation, intelligent manufacturing, mass customization, information retrieval and filtering, decision support, simulation, and healthcare. The purpose of this mini-track is to provide a forum for academics and practitioners to identify and explore the issues, opportunities, and solutions related to intelligent agent and semantic technology design, implementation, integration and deployment. In addition, novel techniques for developing semantic web applications and agent-based systems in different domains would be of interest. This mini-track is intended to increase cross-fertilization of ideas from these domains, and share the lessons learned.  Building on its success in the last eleven years, this mini-track is expected to serve as the spring-board for gathering and disseminating experiences gained in implementing and integrating multi-agent systems and semantic applications in an industrial setting.

 

Best papers from this mini-track will be fast tracked for publication in a special issue of International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT).

 

Possible Topics (but not limited to):

 

• Intelligent Applications in Business

• Distributed Intelligent Systems

• Information agents

• Agent architectures and behavior models

• Models and architectures for agent-oriented information systems

• Agent-based software engineering

• Multi-agent systems and applications in different domains

• Agent communication, collaboration, and coordination

• Mobile Agents

• Agents and web data mining

• Multi-agent technology and grid computing

• Architectures, environments and languages for e-commerce agents

• Automated shopping and trading agents

• Agent-based auction and negotiation in e-commerce

• Agent building tools and environments

• Privacy, security, and trust issues in agent-based e-commerce environments

• Organizational impact of agent-based systems

• Semantic interoperability

• Semantic web for e-business and e-learning

• Service discovery, description, and composition

• Semantic Web mining

• Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation

• Ontology mapping, Integration, and/or alignment

• Software agents for Semantic Web

• Innovative Semantic Web/Ontology applications

• Managerial Issues of Semantic Web/Ontology

• Semantic technologies and tools

 

Further information about the conference is available at (http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/) and electronic submission of papers has to be done via the ScholarOne system at (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011).

 

Important Dates

 

2/17/2011        Submission deadline

3/24/2011        Authors notified of paper acceptance decision

4/21/2011        Camera-Ready Papers due

 

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Vijayan Sugumaran, Ph.D

Professor of Management Information Systems

Decision and Information Sciences Department

School of Business Administration

Oakland University

Rochester, MI 48309

Phone: 248.370.2831

Fax: 248.370.4275

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