Final CFP: ATOP at AAMAS2009 - Agent-based Technologies and applications for enterprise interOPerability

[Klaus Fischer]

			       Call for Papers

		  Agent-based Technologies and applications
		       for enterprise interOPerability
				  ATOP 2009

		  (http://www-ags.dfki.uni-sb.de/~kuf/atop)

			  Workshop to be held at the
		  Eighth International Joint Conference on
	     Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009)
	     (http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/workshops.html)

			      Budapest, Hungary
			         11 May 2009
         (date still to be confirmed please check Web pages for changes)
				
MOTIVATION

Today's  enterprises must  adapt  their  software processes  to  work in  open
settings,  such as  online marketplaces  and, more  generally, the  Web, where
business  relationships exhibit  a  high degree  of  dynamism. Moreover,  open
settings  are   characterized  by  the  autonomy  and   heterogeneity  of  the
enterprises.  In such  settings, interoperability is a key  concern: how do we
ensure that diverse enterprises can  work together toward a mutually desirable
end?

Interoperability  problems occur at  different levels:  at the  business level
(how organizations do business together, what needs to be described and how?),
at the  knowledge level (different  formats, schemas, and ontologies),  and at
the  infrastructure  level   (the  underlying  information  and  communication
technologies  and  systems).  Agents,  Model-Driven  Architecture  (MDA),  and
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) are complementary approaches to addressing
the enterprise interoperability  problem.  Agents enable dynamic collaboration
and  orchestration  in changing  and  unpredictable  situations; MDA  provides
mechanisms  that generate  artifacts  for different  platforms;  SOA gives  us
late-binding  interoperability  between   business  process  requirements  and
providers of  service implementations.  This  workshop aims to  bring together
research that  combines ideas from MDA  and SOA with agents  in presenting new
solutions for enterprise interoperability.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

We  would like  to focus  the  ATOP 2009  around modeling  and metamodels  for
interoperability  in agent-based systems  and business  applications.  Ideally
submitted  papers  should  deal   with  model-driven  agent  technologies  and
methodologies in the context of:

      * simulation and validation of business systems
      * decision-support in value creation networks
      * enterprise and business process modeling
      * case studies of implemented interoperability solutions and
        systems
      * coordination and negotiation in distributed business networks
      * cross-organizational business processes
      * normative environments for enterprise agents interoperability
      * decentralized and peer-to-peer models and enactment of
        business processes
      * goal-driven and adaptive business process management
      * semantic annotations of business process descriptions
      * intelligent enterprise application integration
      * business process modeling, enactment and integration
      * intelligent execution, monitoring, management, and optimization
        of business processes
      * service-oriented architectures and related topics like service
        choreography, orchestration, composition, brokering, and mediation
      * autonomic computing and adaptive autonomous architectures
      * model-driven architectures for business processes and systems
      * models and meta-models for agent-based systems
      * platform-independent models and their relation to agent models
      * model-to-model and model-to-text transformations
      * knowledge representations and ontologies in the context of
        (collaborative) business processes
      * agent communication languages and standards
      * self-organization and adaptation in the context of interoperable systems

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors  should submit  original research  papers  (must not  exceed 12  pages
including all figures and tables) including  an abstract of about 200 words or
position  papers  (must  not  exceed  3  pages). In  any  case  submission  of
preliminary  abstracts some time  before the  official submission  deadline is
very much appreciated. All submissions must be sent electronically to

			    Klaus.Fischer at dfki.de

Acceptable formats  are PDF  and PostScript.  It  is planned to  structure the
workshops into  invited talks, technical presentations  and panel discussions.
A publication of  selected workshop papers is planned  in Springer's new LNBIP
series.       Formatting      instructions      can      be      found      at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html    and   should    be   strictly
followed. The first  page should include the full name  and contact details of
at least one author (email and full postal address).

IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions due              February  2 2009
Notifications sent           February 24 2009
Final papers due             March    11 2009
Workshop                     May      11 2009 (date still to be confirmed)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Arne-Jorgen Berre, SINTEF, Norway
Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany
James Odell, CSC, USA
Joerg P. Mueller, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Sahin Albayrak, TU Berlin, Germany
Bernhard Bauer, University Augsburg, Germany
Amit Chopra, University of Trento, Italy
Michael Georgeff, Monash University, Australia
Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland
Axel Hahn, University Oldenburg, Germany
Christian Hahn, DFKI, Germany
Oystein Haugen, SINTEF, Norway
Sebastian Kaemper, IWi, Germany
Stefan Kirn, Hohenheim University, Germany
Margaret Lyell, IAI, USA
Saber Mansour, Oslo Software, France
Nikolay Mehandjiev, Manchester Business School, UK
Michele Missikoff, LEKS; IASI-CNR, Italy
Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
Herve Panetto, University Nancy, France
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Ralph Ronnquist, Intendico Pty. Ltd., Australia
Rainer Ruggaber, SAP, Germany
Omair Shafiq, Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, Austria
Iain Stalker, Unversity of Teesside, UK
Ingo Timm, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Joerg Ziemann, DFKI-IWi, Germany
Ingo Zinnikus, DFKI, Germany