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[general enquiries email: debenham@it.uts.edu.au]
Workshop Organizers (alphabetical order):
- Paolo Bresciani (ITC-Irst, Povo (Trento), Italy): email brescian@itc.it
- John Debenham (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia): email debenham@it.uts.edu.au
- Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento, Italy): email pgiorgio@science.unitn.it
- Ian Gorton (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Battelle, Richland, WA, USA): email ian.gorton@pnl.gov
- Brian Henderson-Sellers (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia): email brian@it.uts.edu.au
- Graham Low (University of New South Wales, Australia): email g.low@unsw.edu.au
Programme & Accepted Papers for 2003 - Click here
Call for submissions for 2003 [deadline: August 22, 2003 -- CLOSED]
Papers are invited for the OOPSLA2003 "Second International Workshop on Agent-oriented Methodologies". The workshop aims to share the research, knowledge and experiences of different organizations in both the theoretical and practical aspects of agent-oriented methodologies and processes for the design and construction of agents and multi-agent systems. Agent construction integrates both theory, pragmatic guidelines and tool support and can benefit from the experiences of the object-oriented community. Participation will be by submission of a position paper. Selection of these papers for the workshop will be based on review by at least two members of the workshop organizing committee.
Submissions
Contributions are invited in the form of papers of up to twelve single-sided A4 pages. The workshop proceedings will be reproduced in Springer LNCS format [http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf]. The proceedings will be published in book form by COTAR with ISBN number from camera-ready copy supplied in the correct LNCS format by the authors of accepted papers. Authors will retain copyright of papers published in the workshop proceedings. Papers must be submitted as either postscript or PDF files (with any non-standard fonts embedded in the file) and sent as an email attachment to:John Debenham [debenham@it.uts.edu.au]by August 22, 2003 at the latest. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop and will be expected to attend. Selected papers will be recommended to appropriate editors for journal publication.
Dates
- Papers to be submitted by Friday August 22, 2003
- Notification of acceptance by Friday September 12, 2003
- Camera-ready manuscripts due by Friday September 26, 2003
- Workshop - Sunday October 26.
Motivation
Following the success of object technology, the next advance is likely to be the introduction, adoption and widespread use of agent technology for business applications. Agents, building as they do in part on objects, require careful design. Appropriate methodologies for constructing agent-oriented systems may rely to some degree on OO methodologies but the distinct autonomy of an agent means that the product of agent-oriented design processes cannot be as deterministic as they have been in object-oriented developments. The use of autonomous components means that the system organization is a more significant issue than in the design of OO systems. The complex reasoning of hybrid agents has no parallel in OO methodologies. The interaction protocol, which balances individual autonomy with the system purpose, is not an issue for OO systems. In addition, learning and adaptivity, essential ingredients for agents, do not play a central role in OO design.
Workshop Goal
The overall goal of the workshop is to build on the OOPSLA 2002 workshop in which a tentative research agenda for the next five years was identified that will enable agent-oriented methodologies to become of "commercial strength" and to be widely adopted by industry. Collaborations initiated (or at least discussed) at OOPSLA 2002 will have the opportunity to be further consolidated by involving both agent-oriented and object-oriented practitioners.
Themes
Papers are invited on both theoretical and practical aspects of the following topics relevant to agent-oriented methodology:
- Theories of agent-oriented methodology
- Design of agents
- Design of multi-agent systems
- Design metrics for the quality of multi-agent systems
- Full lifecycle issues for agent-oriented development
- The role of Agent UML in the design of agents (but excluding further developments to the Agent UML itself)
Programme Committee
- Carole Bernon (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
- Paolo Ciancarini (Univ. of Bologna)
- Scott A. DeLoach (Kansas State University)
- Carlos Angel Iglesias Fernandez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)
- Marie-Pierre Gleizes (Universite paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
- Michael Huhns (University of South Carolina)
- Liz Kendall (Monash University, Melbourne)
- John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto)
- Andrea Omicini (Universita' degli Studi di Bologna)
- Lin Padgham (RMIT University, Melbourne)
- Omer F Rana (Cardiff University)
- Michael Winikoff (RMIT University, Melbourne)
- Mike Wooldridge (University of Liverpool)
- Eric Yu (University of Toronto)
- Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney)
The committee is co-chaired by Professor John Debenham [email: debenham@it.uts.edu.au] and Professor Brian Henderson-Sellers. All members of the committee will be responsible for undertaking reviews so that each paper receives two timely reviews prior to the selection process.
Organizers' Backgrounds
PAOLO BRESCIANI is a Research Scientist at the ITC-irst (Institute for Technological and Scientific Research) of Trento, Italy. As well, he had and has several teaching contracts with the University of Verona and the University of Trento. Currently, he is the Scientific Coordinator of the first Unit participating in the National Basic Research Project: "Knowledge Level Automated Software Engineering‚" His research interests lie in the areas of knowledge repesentation and reasoning, conceptual modelling and semantics-based interfaces to IS, agent- and goal-based software engineering and requirement engineering, and knowledge management.JOHN DEBENHAM is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is author of two books on the design of intelligent systems. His recent research has focussed on multiagent systems with business process management as his chosen application domain. That work is now being extended into distributed eMarkets where all transactions are managed as business processes by multiagent systems. He was co-chair of the OOPSLA2002 Workshop on Agent-Oriented Methodologies.
PAOLO GIORGINI is Assistant Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Technology of University of Trento, Italy. His research interests lie in the area of conceptual modelling, (agent-oriented) software engineering, and knowledge management. His publication list includes refereed journal and conference proceedings papers and one edited book. He has contributed to the organization of international conferences as chair and program committee member, such as recently the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS - 2001), International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE*2002), and the bi-conference workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2002) and is co-chair of AOIS2003.
IAN GORTON is the chief architect in information sciences and engineering at the US Dept. of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He is also an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Sydney. Previously he was a senior researcher at CSIRO in Sydney, Australia, and has worked in both academia and industry since obtaining his PhD from Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. His research interests include software architectures, particularly designing large-scale, high-performance information systems that make extensive use of COTS middleware technologies.
BRIAN HENDERSON-SELLERS is Director of the Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research and Professor of Information Systems at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He is author of ten books on object technology and is well known for his work in OO methodologies (MOSES, COMMA and OPEN) and in OO metrics. He was recently awarded a DSc degree by the University of London for his work in object-oriented methodology. He was co-chair of the OOPSLA2002 Workshop on Agent-Oriented Methodologies and is co-chair of AOIS 2003 (Agent-Oriented Information Systems) in Chicago in October 2003.
GRAHAM LOW is Professor of Information Systems at the University of New South Wales. His main research interest is the management of the software development process and product with a particular interest in distributed systems and its enabling technologies such as object-oriented development and mobile agent systems. He was a key participant in the development of the Interoperability (distributed systems) and Communications Enhancement (telecommunications) programmes of the Cooperative Research Centre for Technology Markets. The CRC has industry, university and government funding worth approximately $60 million.
Workshop Plan
Pre-workshopAll accepted papers will be placed on this workshop website. Attendees are expected to have read all the papers before the workshop so that the workshop can focus on more informal yet structured interactions.The workshop
All accepted papers will be reproduced in the workshop proceedings. A limited number of accepted papers will be presented orally. All accepted papers will be "taken as read". ALL submissions, whether presented orally or not, will form the architecture for the discussion which will focus on providing concrete, experience-based yet theoretically valid answers to a subset of the questions raised in the workshop topic list.Following initial presentations of approximately 90 minutes in total, the remainder of the day will be spent in break-out groups, each group focussing on at most two of the selected short list of questions to be answered. A plenary session will end the day from which a workshop report will be produced and made available on this website. (see last year's at http://www.open.org.au/Conferences/oopsla2002/report.pdf).
Post-workshop
A poster will be prepared for the poster slot at the end of OOPSLA as normal. In addition, the best papers will be recommended to an international journal (possibilities are currently being investigated). Summaries will also be posted on the workshop website. Hopefully, contacts will have been made between academic researchers and industry developers so that the workshop will have catalyzed some valuable research projects.
Proceedings of previous workshops are available here
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