[ ARCHIVE ] 3rd International Workshop On Agents and Web Services in Distributed Environments (AWeSOMe '07)

The IEEE FIPA Agent and Web Services Interoperability (AWSI) Working Group meeting is co-located with AWESOME’07

Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 26 - 27, 2007

Proceedings published by Springer Verlag

MOTIVATION

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.

Agents, on the other hand, are autonomous software entities that inhabit an environment and interact with each other in order to achieve their own goals on behalf of their owners.

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

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

The AWESOME workshop is an interdisciplinary workshop based on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the development of an intelligent service Web.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Formal and practical knowledge representation and inference for the semantic Web
• Agent-based modelling and design techniques to address problems in web service system development;
• Agent-based resource and service management in grid environments;
• Agents and the semantic web;
• Architectures and infrastructure for distributed agent- or service- based frameworks;
• Architectures for supporting agents and web services within the semantic web;
• Autonomic computing
• Capability matching and matchmakers;
• Communication patterns for web services;
• Composing agents and web services (on the grid);
• Distributed Environments
• Intelligent matchmaking and service brokering;
• Interoperability of web services;
• Issues of trust for web services, agents and ontologies;
• Multi-agent techniques to describing, organizing, and discovering web services;
• Ontology or semantic-based approaches to describing and classifying services and capabilities;
• Ontologies for describing service parameters and request preferences;
• Ontologies for describing agent resources and agent security parameters;
• Ontologies for describing low-level services and platform characteristics;
• 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);
• Software engineering for agent-based semantic web services;
• Supporting service discovery and service management using agent-based approaches;
• 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 agents.

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Pilar Herrero
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Madrid (Spain)

Phone: (+34) 91.336.74.56
Fax: (+34) 91.336.65.95E
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Gonzalo Méndez
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Madrid (Spain)

Phone: (+34) 91.394.75.99
Fax: (+34) 91.394.75.29
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Rainer Unland
Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)
University of Duisburg-Essen
Essen, Germany

Phone: (+49) 201-183 3421
Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460
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Program Committee Members

M Brian Blake - Georgetown University, USA
José Luis Bosque - Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Juan A. Botía Blaya - Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Paul Buhler - College of Charleston, USA
Jose Cardoso - Universidad Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Isaac Chao - Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain
Adam Cheyer - SRI International, USA
Ian Dickinson - HP Labs, UK
Jorge Gómez - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Dominic Greenwood - Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland
Jingshan Huang - University of South Carolina, USA
Margaret Lyell - The MITRE Corporation, USA
Dan Marinescu - University of Central Florida, USA
Gregorio Martínez - Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Viviana Mascardi - Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Michael Maximilien - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Barry Norton - Open University, UK
Julian Padget - University of Bath, UK
Mauricio Paletta - Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, Venezuela
Juan Pavón - Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
José Peña - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
María Pérez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Ronald Poell - Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research
Omer Rana - Cardiff University
Paul Roe - Queensland University of Technology , Australia
Marta Sabou - Open University, UK
Manuel Salvadores - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Alberto Sánchez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Weisong Shi - Wayne State University, USA
Marius-Calin Silaghi - Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Ben KM Sim - Hong Kong Baptist University
Hiroki Suguri - Comtec, Japan
Henry Tirri - Nokia Research Center(NRC), Finland
Santtu Toivonen - VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland
Sander van Splunter - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Julita Vassileva - University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Yao Wang - University of Saskatchewan, Canada