Forwarded message from [itimm@gmx.de] sent originally on Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:22:45 -0500: : !Please, accept our apologies for multiple posting! : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS : : Workshop on : : AGENT TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR APPLICATION SCENARIOS IN LOGISTICS : (http://www.tzi.de/ecai00-mas) : : To be held at the : 14th European Conference on : Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2000) : August 20th-25th, 2000 : Berlin, Germany : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Important Dates : : Title and abstract: February 15th, 2000 : Full Paper: March 31st, 2000 : Notification: May 2nd, 2000 : Camera-Ready-Version: May 31st, 2000 : : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : : The workshop "Agent Technologies and Their Application Scenarios" : is a one-day event that will be held at the occasion of ECAI-2000 : in Berlin, Germany. This workshop aims to narrow the gap between : fundamental agent research and application of intelligent agents : in logistics. It should significantly contribute to the : implementation processes of agent technologies for real-life : logistics systems by the discussion of current technologies, : including their benefits, challenges, and obstacles. : : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Introduction : : Multiagent systems and intelligent agents have become one of the : most promising software technologies during the last decades. : As agents are objects enhanced with additional features their : application potential exceeds the one of traditional OO-concepts : leading to the use of "intelligent" objects in software : engineering. The engineering aspects of this technology have not : been realized yet, nor have they been satisfyingly considered. : Therefore, only a small number of concepts, methodologies and : large-scale scenarios for adequate applications of multiagent : systems in the industry are available up to now. For the : long-term success of intelligent agents and multiagent systems : it is absolutely necessary to transfer research results into : commercial applications. A very promising field of application : is logistics - because of its inherent complexity that cannot : simply be overcome by conventional approaches-, esp. information : and products logistics. : This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and (potential) : users, their concepts, scenarios, hopes, and ideas related to agent : technology, and to identify new application domains and work to be : done in future. : : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Topics : : * Theoretical and methodological foundations of multiagent systems : * Identification, modeling, simulation, and formal representation : of real-world business scenarios in logistics concerning either : manufacturing or health care : * Further improvements of agent technology in the context of : well-defined problems of the logistical domain : * Business- and market-related impacts of agent technologies : * Mutual influences of evolving business standards, e.g., Jini and : XML, and their fruitful merging with existing agent technology : standards : : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Submission Details : : The scientific program will consist of presentations of accepted : papers and panel discussions. You are invited to submit a paper : according the following recommendations: : : Electronic submissions are solicited in Tex, Latex, PostScript, : PDF or Word97/2000 format. The papers, starting with title, : authors's names, addresses, phone and fax numbers, and email : addresses, followed by keywords, and concluding with relevant : bibliographic references, should fit on 4 to 10 single-spaced : typewritten A4 or 8.5x11 inch pages (about 5000 words), in the : form of an extended abstract or complete research, survey or : position paper. Selection of participants will be based on : relevance to the indicated focus of the workshop, clarity of : the work submitted, and the strength of the research. : : Submit to: i.timm@tzi.uni-bremen.de (please use zip or g-zip) or : send three paper copies of the paper to: University of Bremen, : Center for Computing Technologies (TZI-FB3), Ingo Timm, : P.O.Box 33 04 40, 28334 Bremen, Germany; Fax: +49 (421) 218 7196 : (electronic submissions preferred!). : : Accepted papers will be published in the ECAI-2000 Workshop Notes. : Based on selected workshop papers, we plan to edit a special issue : of an AI journal. : : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Organization : : I. J. Timm, Indianapolis, USA (contact) : P. Knirsch, Bremen, Germany : H.-J. Mueller, T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft : mbH Darmstadt, Germany : M. Petsch, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany : N. Abchiche, Universite Paris 8, France : P. Davidsson, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden : Y. Demazeau, Laboraoire Leibniz, Grenoble Cedex, France : F. J. Garijo, Telefonica Investigacion Y Desarrollo, Madrid, Spain : O. Herzog, Universitaet Bremen, Germany : St. Kirn, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany : C. Petrie, Stanford University, California, USA : C. Tessier, ONERA-CERT, Toulouse, France : : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : Information on ECAI-2000: : : http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : : ------------------------------------------------ : Dipl.-Inf. Ingo J. Timm : Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis (IUPUI) : Department of Computer and Information Science : Visiting Researcher : : mailto:i.timm@tzi.uni-bremen.de : internet:http://www.tzi.de/~inti : ------------------------------------------------ :

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