-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] AAMAS WS on Service Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics And Engineering: Submission deadline approaching soon Datum: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:13:15 +1300 Von: Rainer Unland rainer.unland@icb.uni-due.de Organisation: University of Duisburg-Essen An: undisclosed-recipients: ;

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CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th International Workshop on SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE) http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2010/ to be held at the 9th International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2009) Toronto Canada, May 10-14 2010, (http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/)

IMPORTANT DATES Please realize that we had to shorten the submission deadline by a week. For those who cannot make it till the 28 February we will still accept the paper till 7 March as long as we are informed about the possible paper submission till 28 February. The problem is that the AAMAS organizers need the final version of the papers by 28 February. Moreover, the deadline for early registration will end on 12 March. We will try our best to inform you about the outcome of our review process by 11 March but cannot guarantee that, especially not if we get the paper pretty late. Thus, be prepared to have to pay a slightly higher fee if you don't want to register for the workshop and AAMAS without knowing the result of the review process for your paper. Also, make sure that you can revise your paper till 28 March. This deadline cannot be extended any further. Submission Deadline Acceptance Notification Final Version Submission Deadline Workshop held 28 Feb 2010 (7 March 2010 (see above)) 20 March 2010 27 March 2010 11 May 2010

DESCRIPTION The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technology, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, and adaptability. The Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE) workshop continues the theme of the previous SOCASE workshops successfully held at AAMAS'09, AAMAS'08 and AAMAS'07, the SOCABE workshops held at AAMAS'06, AAMAS'05 and the WSABE workshops held at AAMAS'04 and AAMAS'03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide spectrum of issues of the cross section between agent-based and service-oriented paradigms.

TOPICS We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology, Semantic Web Services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems * Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and Semantic Web development * Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent system design, development, and integration * Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes * Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering * Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography * Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery * Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements * Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems * Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned * Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution * Ontology generation, hearing and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents

SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION Submission is to be done electronically. The detailed instructions are provided at the SOCASE'10 web page https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=socase10. Contact Zakaria Maamar (Zakaria.Maamar@zu.ac.ae) for help if required. Submitted papers have a page limit of 15 pages and should be formatted according to LNCS specification. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. Instructions and templates can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include: Relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics. Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers must be of real relevance to the multi-agent research community. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Similarly to the previous years the SOCASE 2010 post-proceedings will be published with Springer's LNCS, subject to an appropriate number and quality of submissions. A selection of best papers will also be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of the papers to a special issue of a major international journal.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (point of contact: rainer.unland@icb.uni-due.de) * Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University, Australia * Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA * Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE * Quoc Bao Vo, Swinburne University, Australia * Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Swinburne University, Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland * Taleb Bendiab, Liverpool John Moores University, UK * M. Brian Blake, University of Notre Dame, USA * Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Cherif Branki, University of West Scotland - Paisley, UK * Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Owen Cliffe, University of Bath, UK * Christian Derksen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Frank Dignum, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands * Virginia Dignum, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Antonio Garcia Dominguez, University of Cadiz, * Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany * Christian Guttmann, Monash University, Australia * Benjamin Hirsch, Berlin University of Technology, Germany * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany * Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany * Tim Lessner, University of Scotland - Paisley, UK * Wathiq Mansoor, American University of Dubai, Dubai * Lars Moench, University of Hagen, Germany * Ganna Monakova, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Volker Nissen, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany * Andreas Oberweis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Guadalupe Ortiz-Bellot, University of Cadiz, Spain * Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Span * Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK * Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland * Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania * Thomas Quillinan, Thales Netherlands, Netherlands * Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA * Sebastian Stein, University of Southampton, UK * Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK * Ingo Timm, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany * Alexander Walz, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Danny Weyns, K.U. Lueven, Belgium * Franco Zambonelli, Universita' di Modena e Reggiio Emilia, Italy