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, France
Zdenek Binder		Laboratoire d'Automatique du Grenoble (LAG), France
Cherif 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, Germany
S.  Kirn	Technical University of Ilmenau, Geramny
Matthias Klusch	Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Ryszard 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, UK
Mathias Petsch	Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
D.  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, Germany
Rainer Unland		University of Essen, Germany
François B. Vernadat	Univieiriety of Metz, INRIA, France
Gehard Weiss		TU Muenchen, Germany
Mike Wooldridge	University of Liverpool, UK
Yiming 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

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

6. Important Dates

1st Call for Papers 					April 10, 2000
Submissions due					June 01, 2000
Acceptance due					July 01, 2000
Final Papers due					September 01, 2000
MAMA'2000					December 11-13, 2000