[DL] CFP: AWeSOMe'05

[AWeSOMe05]

*****************************************************
	The First International Workshop on

Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe'05)

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/awesome2005cfp.html

In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'05)

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag
*****************************************************
Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 31 Oct - 4 Nov 2005
*****************************************************

Web services are a rapidly expanding approach to building distributed 
software systems across networks such as the Internet. A Web service 
is an operation typically addressed via a URI, declaratively described 
using widely accepted standards, and accessed via platform-independent 
XML-based messages.

Emerging ontologies are being used to construct semantically rich service
descriptions. Techniques for planning, composing, editing, reasoning and 
analysing about these descriptions are being investigated and deployed to
resolve semantic interoperability between services within scalable, open 
environments.

Agents and multi-agent systems can benefit from this combination, and can 
be used for web service discovery, use and composition. In addition, web 
services and multi-agent systems bear certain similarities, such as a 
component-like behaviour, that can help to make their development much easier.

This workshop is intended for researchers working in this topic who want to
interact and exchange ideas with other participants.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Agent-based modelling and design techniques to address problems in
web service system development;
* Architectures and infrastructure for distributed agent- or service-
based frameworks;
* Architectures for supporting agents and web services within the semantic web;
* Infrastructure and architectures for M-services;
* Intelligent matchmaking and service brokering;
* Interoperability of web services;
* Multi-agent techniques to describing, organizing, and discovering
web services;
* Ontology or semantic-based approaches to describing and classifying
services and capabilities;
* Pricing and payment models for Web services;
* Process modeling for service/agent composition, orchestration and
coordination;
* Scaleable service composition for heterogeneous environments;
* Security support for agents and services, and agent-based approaches
to service security;
* Semantics for service delegation and knowledge aggregation;
* Semantics in Agent Communication Languages;
* Services and the semantic web, including initiatives such as OWL-S
(formerly DAML-S);
* Use of agent-based approaches for web service personalization;
* Use of context and conversations for Web services composition;
* Use of web service infrastructure and tools for building multi-agent systems.
* Web service agreements, legal contracts, and social commitments
between trading partners;

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, 
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All 
submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format 
and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Authors 
instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

The paper submission site is located at:

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/awesome/2005/papers
Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes 
a paper from the proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline	   June 24, 2005
Paper Submission Deadline	   June 24, 2005
Acceptance Notification		   July 29, 2005
Final Version Due		 August 20, 2005
Conference	   October 31 - November 4, 2005

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

    * Pilar Herrero
      Facultad de Informática
      Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
      Campus de Montegancedo S/N
      28660 Boadilla del Monte
      Madrid (Spain)
      Phone: (+34) 91.336.74.56
      Fax: (+34) 91.336.65.95E
      mail: pherrero at fi.upm.es

    * David Martin
      Artificial Intelligence Center
      SRI International
      333 Ravenswood Ave.
      Menlo Park, CA 94025 (USA)
      Phone: 650/859-4119
      Email: martin at ai.sri.com

    * Lawrence Cavedon
      Center for the Study of Language and Information
      Stanford University
      210 Panama St
      Stanford California 94305 (USA)
      Phone: (+1) 650-725-2318
      Email: lcavedon at csli.stanford.edu

    * Gonzalo Méndez
      Facultad de Informática
      Universidad Complutense de Madrid
      C/ Prof. José García Santesmases, s/n.
      28040 Madrid (Spain)
      Phone: (+34) 91.394.75.99
      Email: gmendez at fdi.ucm.es

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Chris van Aart, Acklin B.V., The Netherlands
* Richard Benjamins, iSOCO, Spain
* Adam Cheyer, SRI International, USA
* Ian J. Dickinson, HP Labs, UK
* Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore
* Hamada H. Ghenniwa, University of Western Ontario, Canada
* Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland
* Mike Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA
* Margaret Lyell, The MITRE Corporation, USA
* W. Lewis Johnson, University of Southern California (USC), USA
* E. Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
* Juan Pavón Mestras, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
* Terry R. Payne, University of Southampton, UK
* José M. Peña, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* María S. Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Debbie Richards, Macquarie University, Australia
* Víctor Robles, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Marta Sabou, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Holland
* Manuel Salvadores, Imbert Management Consulting Group, Spain
* Alberto Sánchez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Jorge Gómez Sanz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology , Australia
* Leon Sterling, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Henry Tirri, Nokia Research Center(NRC), Finland
* Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
* Santtu Toivonen, VTT Information Technology, Finland
* Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
* Steve Willmott, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
* Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan