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please note the changes to the workshop format
All members of the programme committee will be responsible for undertaking reviews so that each paper receives two timely reviews prior to the selection process.
Dr Cesar Gonzalez-Perez will be in charge of the workshop web site. He and Prof. Brian Henderson-Sellers will assist in the organisation of the paper selection and publication process.
Papers are invited for the OOPSLA 2005 Fourth 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 programme committee.
Due to the low number of submissions, the workshop format has been changed for the benefit of everyone. No papers will be orally presented at the workshop, although the keynote speech is maintained.
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 and published by COTAR as a book with ISBN number. The proceedings will be prepared from camera-ready copy supplied in the correct format by the authors of accepted papers. Authors will retain copyright of papers published in the workshop proceedings. Papers must be submitted as PDF files (with any non-standard fonts embedded in the file and no page numbers) and sent as an email attachment to:
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez [cesargon@it.uts.edu.au]
by August 26, 2005 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.
The changes made to the workshop format mean that no ISBN publication will be produced. You are still welcome to attend the workshop and actively participate in the discussions.
Papers to be submitted by Friday August 26, 2005
Notification of acceptance by Wednesday September 7, 2005
Camera-ready manuscripts due by Monday September 19, 2005
Workshop – Monday October 17, 2005, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Attendees will be expected to have read all the accepted papers before the workshop so that the workshop can focus on more informal yet structured interactions.
Only a small number of papers will be presented orally. All the accepted papers will be circulated before the conference and "taken as read". They 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 no more than 120 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 internationally on this website.
No papers will be orally presented during the workshop, although the keynote is maintained.
A poster will be prepared for the poster slot at the end of OOPSLA as normal. In addition, the best papers will be considered for recommendation 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 catalysed some valuable research projects.
The main theme of the workshop this year is full lifecycle AO methodologies in an industrial context. What are the appropriate processes by which an agent-oriented software development can progress from requirements through to production of the application? Other associated areas of interest are the application of method engineering techniques to AO methodologies and supporting tools for all stages of the AO lifecycle. The aim of the workshop is to bring together practitioners and theory developers from both the object-oriented and agent-oriented communities in order to support technology transfer between these two sub-disciplines in order to accelerate the development and industry adoption of full lifecycle AO methodologies
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 irst Unit participating in the National Basic Research Project: “Knowledge Level Automated Software Engineering”. His research interests lie in the areas of knowledge representation and reasoning, conceptual modelling and semantics-based interfaces to IS, agent- and goal-based software engineering and requirement engineering, and knowledge management. Paolo was an organiser of the Second and Third International Workshops on Agent-Based Methodologies at OOPSLA 2003 and 2004.
Monique Calisti is vice-president of the Research and Consulting group of Whitestein Technologies AG since 2002. From 1997 to March 2002, she was research scientist and lecturer at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL). Her main area of activity covered coordination and negotiation techniques between distributed (and eventually self-interested) software agents controlling distinct resources. During her period at EPFL, Monique has attended the Doctoral School in Telecommunication Systems (1997), and she obtained a postgraduate diploma in multi-agent systems (1999). From 1996 until 1997, before joining EPFL, Monique was a research assistant at the Electrical and Computer Science Department at the University of Bologna (Italy), where she worked on packet switching in optical networks. Monique regularly publishes articles and papers in renowned journals in the area of network management and multi-agent technology. Since October 2001, Monique is a member of the FIPA board of directors and the chair of the FIPA Image Committee. Monique holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), and a Ph.D. in telecommunications from Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy.
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 OOPSLA 2002 Workshop on Agent-Oriented Methodologies and an organiser of the Second and Third International Workshops on Agent-Based Methodologies at OOPSLA 2003 and 2004.
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 AOIS 2003. Paolo was an organiser of the Second and Third International Workshops on Agent-Based Methodologies at OOPSLA 2003 and 2004.
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez has been working at UTS since April 2002, focusing on object-oriented and agent-oriented software development methodologies and metamodelling. Prior to this, he was the chief developer of the OPEN/Metis methodological framework. Cesar has co-developed and co-chaired the Process Engineering for Object-Oriented and Component-Based Development workshop at OOPSLA 2003. Cesar was an organiser and chairperson of the Third International Workshop on Agent-Based Methodologies at OOPSLA 2004.
Ian Gorton is a Senior Principal Researcher in the Empirical Software Engineering research group at National ICT Australia (NICTA), based in Sydney. NICTA is Australia’s centre of excellence for Information and Communications Technology R&D. He also holds the positions of Conjoint Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales and Honorary Associate at the School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney in Australia. Ian works on a whole range of projects, from foundational, empirical software architecture research and new technology development, to designing distributed architectures for applications and initiating process improvements in software engineering organisations.
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 AOIS 2003 (Agent-Oriented Information Systems) in Chicago in October 2003, co-chair of the OOPSLA 2002 Workshop on Agent-Oriented Methodologies and organiser of the Second and Third International Work-shops on Agent-Based Methodologies at OOPSLA 2003 and 2004.
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. Graham was an organiser of the Second and Third International Workshops on Agent-Based Methodologies at OOPSLA 2003 ad 2004.