Call for Papers The 2004 International Conference-Crossing Workshop

***************************************************************** * AGENTS and AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING for BUSINESS AUTOMATION * *****************************************************************

June - October, 2004 Las-Vegas (USA), Wellington (New Zealand), The Hague (The Netherlands)

http://www.aba-rd.org/ http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA/all/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline for Draft Papers is February 23, 2004 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

TOPICS:

AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING and particularly AGENT technology can help us to process heterogeneous information, knowledge, manufacturing data, and business transactions in an automatic, flexible, intelligent, and efficient way. The goals of this International Workshop are to gather ACADEMIC and INDUSTRIAL researchers to exchange new ideas and experiences, to initialize new contacts or to strengthen existing collaborations. We hope to create a dynamic forum and effective connections among RESEARCHERS, USERS, and DEVELOPERS in this field.

This year we plan to have the following tracks: + Track-A: " Agents for Autonomous Information and Knowledge Processing " (at IKE) June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA. + Track-B: " Distributed & Parallel Computing Techniques for Agents " (at PDPTA) June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA. + Track-C: " Intelligent Agents for Autonomous Processing " (at IC-AI) June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA. + Track-D: " Internet Agents for Autonomous Processing " (at IC) June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA. + Track-E: " Agents for Business and Engineering Systems" (at KES) September 20-24, Wellington, New Zealand. + Track-G: " Agent-based Systems for Autonomous Processing" (at IEEE SMC) October 10-13, The Hague, The Netherlands

We welcome papers on architectures, protocols, algorithms, design, evaluation, implementation techniques, and applications of autonomous and agent-based systems. Technical issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

SPECIAL INTERESTS Autonomous Computing and Agents for Business Automation in: + Interface to Human Users + Text and Data Retrieval for Automatic Formation of Demands and Supplies + Matching Demands/Supplies and Transaction Formation + Transaction Implementation & Validation + Logistics & Workflow Management + Monitoring, Control, and Visualization of Agent-based Business Automation + Modeling, Simulation, Design, & Evaluation of Agent-based Business Systems + Problems Statements/Descriptions of Challenging Scenarios in Business Automation

APPLICATIONS Autonomous Computing and Agents for: + Virtual Offices + Personal and Professional Assistants + Processing Text, Multimedia, and Heterogeneous Information + Distributed Documents + E-Marketing and E-Advertising + E-Management and E-Control + E-Trade and E-Marketplace + E-Payment and E-Banking + E-Government and E-Administration + Financial & Investment Management + Supply Chains & B2B systems + Games on the Internet + Wireless Systems + Semantic Webs + Large-Scale Heterogeneous and Distributed Systems

METHODOLOGIES & IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUES + Agent Architectures and Multi-agent Infrastructures + Agent Learning + Agent Negotiation + Agent Trusts & Trust-based Actions + Agent Cooperation/Competition + Soft Computing (Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, GA ...) for Agents + Agent Communication + Agent Interaction/Coordination + Agent Mobility + Real-Time Agents + Agent Security and Authentication + Agent Reliability and Fault Tolerance + Agent Visualization + Distributed and Parallel Techniques for Agents and Autonomous Computing

SUBMISSION:

You are invited to submit papers through the http://www.aba-rd.org/ site. If the files are more than 10Mb even after zipping then please email them to the contact address below. Please use the IEEE-format with less than 7 pages for draft papers. After being reviewed, papers may be accepted in the following categories: + RESEARCH Papers for presentations (7 pages) and for posters (4 pages); + REPORT Papers for System/Software/Product descriptions, analysis, and demos (7 or 4 pages); + POSITION Papers for stating problems and issues of Challenging business scenarios (2 pages). accepted papers of all categories will be published in the conference proceedings.

FORMAT & PUBLICATION:

This International Workshop consists of Technical Tracks held at several International Conferences. Our workshop papers will be published in those corresponding Conference Proceedings in hard copy (ISBN). In addition to that, we also plan to publish the revised versions of papers of ALL tracks in a book. In the past, selected papers from our previous workshops were extended and published in two journal issues:

+ " ASPECTS of INTERNET AGENT-BASED E-BUSINESS SYSTEMS ", Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Volume 3:3-4, July-October 2003, Kluwer Publisher; http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA/papers/J1/

+ " SOFTWARE AGENTS for BUSINESS AUTOMATION ", Journal of E-commerce Research and Applications, Vol.2, N.3, July-October 2003, Elsevier Publisher. http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA/papers/J2/

CONFERENCE EVENTS:

Our technical tracks are planned to be held at the following conferences: IKE: The 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (*) IT: The 2004 International Conference on Internet Computing (*) PDPTA: The 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (*) IC-AI: The 2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (*) KES: The 8th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES, September 20-24, Wellington, New Zealand. IEEE SMC: The 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, October 10-13, The Hague, The Netherlands

( Conferences with (*) are among the 18 Conferences of the 2004 International MultiConference IMCSCE, June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA)

PARTICIPATION:

For the authors who may not be able to present their papers at the conference site, we plan to make post-conference on-line interactive forums & 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 ... Minutes of all discussions will be distributed to the participants.

IMPORTANT DATES:

February 23, 2004: Draft papers March 27, 2004: Notification of acceptance April 21, 2004: Camera-Ready papers

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ( Please visit http://www.aba-rd.org/ for an update list )

CONTACT:

Dr. Hanh Pham Department of Computer Science State University of New York 75 S. Manheim Blvd. Suite 6, FOB-08 New Paltz, NY 12561, USA E-mail: aba <at> cs <dot> newpaltz <dot> edu phamh <at> newpaltz <dot> edu URL: http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ Tel: 1-845-257-3574 Fax: 1-845-257-3996