[Vki-list] CFP: Agents at WI2007: Track on Agent and Multiagent Technologies for Business Applications

[Jörg Müller]

    ** AGENTS at WI2007 ** CALL FOR PAPERS  ** AGENTS at WI2007 **

   AGENT AND MULTIAGENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

                     Conference Track at
   8. Internationale Jahrestagung Wirtschaftsinformatik WI'2007

                  February 28 - March 2, 2007
                      Karlsruhe, Germany

                 http://www.wi2007.de (German)
               http://www.wi2007.de/en (English)


INTRODUCTION:
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Software  agents  and  multiagent  systems  provide  a  paradigm
for  designing decentral systems, characterized by local task
descriptions and problem solving knowledge, local control, local
dynamics, and  at the  same time,  by constant interaction and
trade-offs  between   local  (agent-level)   and  group-level
objectives  and  behavior.  Successful applications  of  these
technologies lie notably  in  the areas  of  optimization,
distributed  information  and resource management,  interoperability,
and  personalization.   Agent  and   multiagent technologies offer
new perspectives  and possibilities  for the  development of
business applications;  however, they  induce new  challenges to
the design  of socio-technical  information  and  communication
systems.  Research   questions relevant  to this  track range
from the  description and  analysis of  business applications  of
agent  technologies,  over  the  engineering  of agent-enabled
information systems through  the phases of  the engineering cycle,
to issues of integration, (self-)organization and -optimization and
service-related  aspects.

We welcome contributions dealing with enabling agent and multiagent
technologies in  an  application  context,  as well as project and
experience reports from industrial practice.

TRACK TOPICS:
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Topics of interest to the track include, but are not restricted to:

* Business applications of agents and multiagent systems
* Agent-oriented modeling (e.g., in the context of Model-Driven
  Architecture TM)
* Engineering agent-based information systems
* Integrating agents with standard platforms and integrated
  information systems.
* (Multi-) agent technology for cross-enterprise integration and
  interoperability (e.g., Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Services,
  Grid Computing, Ontologies)
* Agents for control, automation, and optimization of business
  processes and electronic markets
* Methods, architecture, and applications of decentral resource
  management (multiagent systems and peer-to-peer computing)
* Best practice, project and experience reports


INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:
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We kindly invite authors to submit interesting papers for the track.
Papers  should be submitted in English or German and must not exceed
18 pages using the conference paper template (see link below). Each
submission must contain an abstract of max. 800 characters.

Accepted papers will be formally  published in conference proceedings
and in an online system. Publication in the conference proceedings is
subject to the  registration of at least one author to the conference,
including payment of the conference fee. All papers accepted will be
considered for the "Best Paper Award WI 2007" and, if applicable, for
the "Best Young Researcher Award WI 2007".  The prize will be awarded
at the end of conference.

For details  regarding submission  style and  online submission
process, please refer to the conference web site:
http://www.wi2007.de/en --> Call for Papers


IMPORTANT DATES:
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Submissions due: July 10, 2006
Author notifications due: Oct 4, 2006


TRACK CHAIRS:
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Joerg P. Mueller
TU Clausthal
Julius-Albert-Str. 4
D-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Email: mueller at in.tu-clausthal.de
http://winf.in.tu-clausthal.de

Bernhard Bauer
Universitaet Augsburg
Universitaetsstrasse 16,
D-86135 Augsburg
Email: bernhard.bauer at informatik.uni-augsburg.de
http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/swt/vs/


TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Michael Berger          Siemens
Martin Bichler          TU Muenchen
Freimut Bodendorf       U Erlangen
Christian Dannegger     Whitestein
Torsten Eymann          U Bayreuth
Klaus Fischer           DFKI
Otthein Herzog          U Bremen
Stefan Kirn             Uni Hohenheim
Winfried Lamersdorf     U Hamburg
James Odell             James Odell Associates
Michal Pechoucek        U Prag
Alexander Smirnov       Russian Academy of Sciences
Rainer Unland           U Essen
Roland Zimmermann       Bissantz & Company