[ ARCHIVE ] 4th International Workshop On Agents and Web Services Merging in Distributed Environments

Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 9 - 14, 2008

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.

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:

  • Agent-based modelling and design techniques to address problems in web service system development;
  • Agent-based applications to web services;
  • Agent-based resource and service management in grid environments;
  • Architectures and infrastructure for distributed agent- or service- based frameworks;
  • Architectures for supporting agents and web services within the semantic web;
  • Autonomic computing applications to web servcices;
  • Capability matching and matchmakers;
  • Communication patterns for web services;
  • Composing agents and web services (on the grid);
  • Distributed Environments and grid 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;
  • 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;
  • 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;

  
ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Jörg Denzinger
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Tel: (+1) 403 220 5574
Fax: (+1) 403 284 4707
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Pilar Herrero
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Madrid (Spain)
Tel: (+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)
Tel: (+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
Tel: (+49) 201-183 3421
Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460
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Program Committee Members

Mohsen Afsharchi - University of Zanjan, Iran
M Brian Blake - Georgetown University, USA
José Luis Bosque - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Juan A. Botía Blaya - Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Ramon Brena - Centro de Sistemas Inteligentes, ITESM Campus Monterrey, México.
Scott Buffett - National Research Council Canada, Canada
Paul Buhler - College of Charleston, USA
Blanca Caminero - Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Jose Cardoso - Universidad Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Adam Cheyer - SRI International, USA
Ian Dickinson - HP Labs, UK
Maria Fasli - University of Essex, UK
Roberto A Flores - Christopher Newport University, USA
Dominic Greenwood - Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland
Jingshan Huang - Benedict College, 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
José Peña - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
María Pérez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Manuel Salvadores - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Alberto Sánchez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Candelaria Sansores - Universidad del Caribe, México
Marius-Calin Silaghi - Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Santtu Toivonen - Idean Enterprises, Finland
Julita Vassileva - University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Yao Wang - University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Chengqi Zhang - University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Henry Tirri - Nokia Research Center(NRC), Finland
Ángel Lucas González Martínez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Antonio Garcia Dopico - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain