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************************************************************* * AGENT Technology for AUTONOMOUS Business PROCESSING * *************************************************************

http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA-03/

An International Conference-Crossing Workshop at The 2003 International MultiConference in Computer Science & Engineering (a 15-Joint-Conference event)

June 23-26, 2003 Monte-Carlo Resort, LAS-VEGAS, USA

TOPICS:

Automation can help us to carry out various activities in a low-cost, fast, 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, flexible, and intelligent way.

The goal of this event is 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 a dynamic forum and effective connections among academic and industrial RESEARCHERS, USERS, and DEVELOPERS in this field.

This year, in Las Vegas, we plan to have the following tracks at the five conferences:

Track-A:" Internet Agents for Autonomous Processing "(at IC'03) Track-B:" Distributed & Parallel Computing Techniques for Agents " (at PDPTA'03) Track-C:" Intelligent Agents for Autonomous Processing " (at IC-AI'03) Track-D:" Agents for Autonomous Information and Knowledge Processing" (at IKE'03) Track-E:" Learning Agents for Autonomous Processing "(at MLMTA'03) Track-X: PRODUCT/SOFTWARE demo (TBD) Track-Y: Panel Discussions (TBD)

We welcome papers on architectures, protocols, algorithms, design, evaluation (performance, QoS, security), implementation techniques, and applications for agent-based systems. For more details on topicts please visit: http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA-03/

PUBLICATION:

Accepted papers will be published in the corresponding CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGs by CSREA Press (ISBN) in hard copy. In addition to that, we also plan to have the revised versions of papers of ALL tracks published in JOURNAL special issues or in a BOOK called "Agents for Autonomous Business Processing".

In the past, selected papers from our 2002 workshop "Agents for Business Automation" were extended and revised to be published as a special issue of 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 revised and are to be published as a special issue of the KLUWER's International Journal on "Electronic Commerce Research".

SUBMISSION:

Papers will be accepted in the following categories: + RESEARCH Papers; + REPORT Papers for System/Software/Product descriptions, and analysis; + POSITION Papers for stating problems and issues of Challenging Business Scenarios.

Accepted papers of ALL categories will be published in the CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGs. The length of the Camera-Ready version of accepted papers is limited to 7 or 4 pages.

IMPORTANT DATES:

February 17, 2003 (Monday): SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPERS !!! March 20, 2003 (Thursday): Notification of acceptance April 22, 2003 (Tuesday): Camera-Ready papers

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