CALL FOR PAPERS Applied Intelligence: Special Issue on Agents and Process Management Submission Deadline: March 1st 2001 This special issue will bring together key researchers in the areas of AI agents, planning, scheduling and control with those in workflow management and distributed computing. The aim is to explore the potential AI techniques to support process management for business and software environments. Two dynamic and exciting fields relevant to this topic are Workflow Management Systems (WfMS) and Ubiquitous Computing. WfMS are integrated software tools for supporting the modeling, analysis, and enactment of business processes. Ubiquitous computing involves the creation of "intelligent" living and working spaces. Where computing power is omnipresent and tailored to the user.The widespread use of computers and increasing availability of online information has sparked interest in employing automation to improve process management and the provision of computing services. The field of workflow management has emerged as an outgrowth of this interest in recent years as has the idea of ubiquitous computing as seen by the growth in "online" hand-held organizers. However these domains are characterized by rapidly changing requirements and dynamic environments. Thus, technologies must provide reactivity and flexibility to support their operational requirements for process and service management. The theme of this issue is that the AI community could be leveraged to realize a vision for dynamic process management, at both the modeling and technological levels. What are the hard problems in process management and how can AI help? The focus of this issue will be on the role that technologies emerging from international research communities can play in the construction of tools that manage complex distributed processes, while remaining robust, reactive, and adaptive in the face of environmental changes. TOPICS - ------ The following subfields of AI are directly relevant to this issue: * Reactive control * Planning * Planning and Reactive control architectures * Scheduling * Knowledge acquisition * Distributed AI SUBMISSIONS - ----------- Authors should submit six hard copies of their final manuscript to Dr. Pauline M. Berry SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park CA 94025 Tel: (650) 859 2159 Fax: (650) 859 3735 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND AT: http://www.ai.sri.com/~berry/IJAI-instructions.doc - -- Pauline M. Berry, EJ223 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SRI International Phone: 650/859-2159 333 Ravenswood Ave. Fax: 650/859-3735 Menlo Park, CA 94025 WWW: http://www.ai.sri.com/~berry
