International ICSC Symposium on Multi-Agents
                  and Mobile Agents in Virtual Organizations
                         and E-Commerce (MAMA'2000)
                                December 11-13, 2000

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CALL FOR PAPERS OF MAMA’2000



International ICSC Symposium on Multi-Agents
and Mobile Agents in Virtual Organizations
and E-Commerce (MAMA'2000)
December 11-13, 2000, Wollongong, Australia


To be co-located with

International ICSC Congress on Intelligent Systems and Applications (ISA'2000), December 12-15, 2000, at the University of Wollongong (near Sydney), Australia

1. Purpose


Agent technology is currently one of the most vibrant and active areas of research and development in information technology. Multi-agents and mobile agents technologies are making significant impacts upon almost all aspects of computing discipline. Boldly speaking, they are underpinning the profound changes taking place in our  information society. One of the admittedly most successful applications is in globalized business partnerships, directly due to the nature of the problem. In fact, virtual organizations and e-commerce have become fashionable practices of toady’s globalized businesses. At the right time, agents act as key components in the Internet-wide information and e-commerce systems that are currently being developed across the globe, and multi-agents and mobile agents provide most feasible and effective computational frameworks for contemporary business practices.

In answer to such a trend at the beginning of this exciting new millennium, MAMA’2000 aims to establishing a responsive, active and valuable world-class academic forum for executives, managers, practitioners and academicians from multi-agents, mobiles agents, virtual organizations and e-commerce, in particular their crisscrosses.

2. Symposium Topics (MAMA’2000)
Topics of interests include, indicatively:

Agents:

- agent architectures
- information agents
- middle agents (e.g., match-makers, brokers, routers)
- mobile agents
- modeling the behavior of other agents
- network agents
- privacy and agents
- standards
- user modeling

Multi-Agents

- agent-based software engineering
- agent platform
- agent social communication mechanisms and languages
- agent societies and ensembles
- communication, collaboration and interaction of humans and agents
- economics principles for multi-agents
- fault tolerance
- languages (syntax, linguistics and pragmatics), domain ontology
- multi-agent communication, coordination, and collaboration
- multi-agent design patterns and paradigms
- multi-agent simulation, verification, and validation
- multi-agent systems organization (macro versus micro centralization and decentralization)
- nesting of multi-agents
- organization of agent societies
- organizational principles for multi-agents
- scalability

Computer Supported Cooperative/Collaborative Work (CSCW)

- applications of agent-based/mediated CSCW
- architectures and modes of CSCW
- CSCW systems organisation
- decision support in CSCW
- groupware
- intelligent agents in CSCW
- security aspects of agent-based CSCW systems
- mobility of agents in CSCW
- multi-agent architectures for CSCW
- multi-agent cooperation and coordination in social group work
- multi-agent macroscopic modeling of group work
- multi-agent mechanisms for task decomposition, dispatch and synthesis in group work
- multi-agent team work
- user agents in CSCW systems
- virtual office

Business partnerships and Virtual Organisations

- multi-agent cooperation and coordination mechanisms for the operation of enterprise federation and virtual organizations
- multi-agent platform construction for enterprise federation and virtual organizations
- multi-agent model for the configuration of enterprise federation and virtual organizations
- multi-agent modeling of enterprise federation and virtual organizations
- multi-agents in process re-engineering
- requirements analysis and life-cycle analysis of enterprise federation and virtual organizations

E-Commerce

- applications in active networks
- applications in electronic markets and commerce
- artificial market systems and e-commerce
- e-commerce animation, simulation
- e-commerce development tools, programming
- e-commerce interface, virtual reality
- e-commerce interface agents
- e-commerce security
- ergonomics in e-commerce and electronic marketplaces
- market-based control
- mobile agents for order processing, selling, transactions processing
- mobile agents for payment, financial processing
- requirements analysis and computational modeling of e-commerce,
  business on Internet, electronic marketplaces
- resource management
- security analysis, model and implementation on both clients and
  hosts of e-commerce
- world wide web integration


3. Symposium Chair (MAMA’2000)

Huaglory Tianfield, Ph.D.

School of Multimedia & Computing

Gloucestershire Business School

Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education

P O Box 220, The Park, Cheltenham

GL 50 2QF, England, UK

Tel: +44 1242 54 4066

Fax: +44 1242 54 3327

E-mail: htianfield@chelt.ac.uk

4. International Program Committee (MAMA’2000)

(Tentative)

N.  Abchiche University of Paris, FranceZdenek Binder Laboratoire d'Automatique du Grenoble (LAG), FranceCherif Branki University of Paisley, UK

Pádraig Cunningham Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Bertrand David Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France

Jacques Ferber Université Montpellier II , France

Nick R. Jennings Univieirety of Soouthamppton, UK

Ping Jiang Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, GermanyS.  Kirn Technical University of Ilmenau, GeramnyMatthias Klusch Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, GermanyRyszard Kowalczyk CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia
Kraemer Fern Universitaet Hagen, Germany
H.  Lecorre France Telekom, France
Brian Lees University of Paisley, UK
Jiming Liu Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Peter B. Luh University of Connecticut, USA

Julian Newman Glasgow Caledonian University, UKMathias Petsch Technical University of Ilmenau, GermanyD.  Riaño Rovira University, Tarragona, Spain

Zhongzhi Shi Chinese Academy of Science, China

Munindar P. Singh North Carolina State University, USA

Stefan Uellner Deutsche Telekom, Research, Darmstadt, GermanyRainer Unland University of Essen, Germany

François B. Vernadat Univieiriety of Metz, INRIA, France

Gehard Weiss TU Muenchen, Germany

Mike Wooldridge University of Liverpool, UKYiming Ye IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA

Shengsheng Zhang Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

K.  Zreik Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France


5. Symposium Organizer

ICSC International Computer Science Conventions

5101C - 50 Street

Wetaskiwin, Alberta T9A 1K1 / Canada

Email: operating@icsc.ab.ca (Operating Division)

planning@icsc.ab.ca (Planning Division)

Phone: +1-780-352-1912

Fax: +1-780-352-1913

www.icsc.ab.ca

International ICSC Symposium on Multi-Agents and Mobile Agents in Virtual Organizations and E-Commerce (MAMA'2000) is organized as an integrative part of

the International ICSC Congress on Intelligent Systems and Applications (ISA'2000), December 12-15, 2000, at the University of Wollongong (near Sydney), Australia
www.icsc.ab.ca/isa2000.htm


6. Important Dates
Arrival of submission deadline                              June 12, 2000
Notification of Acceptance                                   July 10, 2000
Final Camera Ready Papers                                September 01, 2000
MAMA'2000                                                       December 11-13, 2000