Forwarded message from [gw@INF.FU-BERLIN.DE (Gerd Wagner)] sent originally on Tue, 8 Feb 2000 18:26:40 +0100: : 2nd Call for Papers : Second International Bi-Conference Workshop on : : AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AOIS-2000) : http://www.AOIS.org : : 5-6 June 2000, Stockholm (Sweden) at CAiSE*00 : 30 July 2000, Austin (Texas, USA) at AAAI-2000 : : IMPORTANT DATES : : 1 March 2000, deadline for submitting title and abstract : 10 March 2000, deadline for submitting full paper : : WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION : : Agent-Orientation is emerging as a powerful new paradigm : in computing. Agent-oriented concepts and techniques : could well be the foundations for the next generation of : mainstream information systems. : : Information systems have become the backbone of all kinds : of organizations today. Yet the inflexibilities in current : technologies and methods have also resulted in poor : performance, incompatibilties, and obstacles to change. : As many organizations are reinventing themselves to meet : the challenges of global competition and e-commerce, : there is increasing pressure to develop and deploy new : technologies that are flexible, robust, and responsive : to rapid and unexpected change. : : Agent concepts, which originated in artificial intelligence : but which have further developed and evolved in many areas : of computing, hold great promise for responding to the new : realities of information systems. The workshop will focus : on how agent concepts and techniques will contribute to : meeting information systems needs today and tomorrow. : : TOPICS : : Topics include (but are not limited to): : : - agent-oriented modeling and design methods : - models/architectures for agent-oriented information systems : - new information system technologies based on software agents : - agent-oriented requirements engineering : - agent-oriented approaches to data integration : - agents and knowledge management : - ontologies in agent-oriented information systems : - agent-based workflow management systems : - agent-oriented enterprise and business process modeling : - agent communication languages for business communication : - agents in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems : : WORKSHOP FORMAT : : The technical program will include invited talks by leading : experts in the field, one or more panel discussions, and : contributed papers. Poster sessions are also being planned. : : SUBMISSION : : To submit a regular paper as a html, postscript or pdf file, : authors should either send it by email (or place it on a web : server and send its URL) to one of the workshop chairs by : 10 March 2000. A separate message with the title, author : names, affiliations, contact information and an abstract : has to be sent by 1 March 2000. Papers must be of reasonable : size, not exceeding 15 pages. Both work-in-progress and : completed research papers are welcome. All accepted papers : of AOIS-2000 will be published in a book (the AOIS'99 : proceedings are going to be published by MIT Press). : : WORKSHOP CHAIRS : : Yves Lespérance : Department of Computer Science, York Univ, CA : E-mail: lesperan@cs.yorku.ca : : Gerd Wagner : Institute of Informatics, Free Univ of Berlin, DE : E-mail: gw@inf.fu-berlin.de : : Eric Yu : Faculty of Information Studies, Univ of Toronto, CA : E-mail: eric.yu@utoronto.ca : : PROGRAM COMMITEE : : H.-D. Burkhard (Humboldt Univ, DE), F. Dignum (Eindhoven Univ, NL), : I. Ferguson (Active On-line Systems, UK), T. Finin (UMBC, USA), : A. Gal (Rutgers Univ, USA), M. Huhns (Univ. S. Carolina, USA), : M. Jarke (RWTH Aachen, DE), A.G. Karakoulas (CIBC and Univ Toronto, : CA), G. Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen, DE), S. Kirn (TU Ilmenau, DE), : F. Matthes (TU Harburg, DE), J.P. Mueller (Siemens, DE), : J. Mylopoulos (Univ Toronto, CA), M.P. Papazoglou (Tilburg Univ, : NL), M. Schroeder (City Univ London, UK), M. Singh (North Carolina : State Univ, USA), K. Sycara (CMU, USA), C. Woo (Univ British : Columbia, CA) : : ===== Start of ISWorld List Footer ===== : ISWorld list is a service of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) : (http://www.aisnet.org) hosted at University College Dublin. For archives, : subscribing, or posting "norms" see http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist : ===== End of ISWorld List Footer =====

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