10th Adaptive Computing (and Agents) for Enhanced Collaboration (ACEC) Conference Track @ IEEE WETICE 2012Date: June 25 - 27, 2012
Location: Toulose, France

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News

Overview

Over it's 9 years in existence, ACEC has focused on projects that leverage the adaptability, autonomy and intelligence of first-class software agents for the collaboration that occurs across enterprise software systems. In 2012, ACEC celebrates it's 10th anniversary. The organizers would like to continue to explore research in agent-based computing, but also we will welcome a wider array of projects that leverage adaptive techniques that may not include all the attributes of first class software agents. In addition to our traditional domain areas, i.e. Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Workflow and Supply Chain Management, Automation in Virtual Enterprises, and Automated Distributed Service Composition, we are also interested in new adaptive techniques such as collaboration when organizations leverage emerging web techniques such as Cloud Computing, Crowd-Sourcing and general Social Networking.
In addition to traditional papers, the forthcoming 10th episode of ACEC welcomes papers from two focus areas:

• Adaptive and Agent-based Services
• Adaptive Techniques for Organizational/Enterprise Use of Emerging Web Paradigms (Cloud, Crowd-sourcing, Mobile Apps)

These two themes represent important areas where software agents can leverage their distributed nature along with their proactive and autonomous characteristics to provide solutions for complex problems which are difficult to address using traditional/existing technologies.

With the popularity and pervasiveness of services in the emerging digital world, enterprises must carefully evaluate how to make their services openly accessible. Furthermore, it is important for enterprises to learn how to exploit the services of others at the consumer level (crowd-sourcing) while taking into account the unexpected circumstances and changing scenarios, which frequently occur in organizational ecosystems.

In both of these (above given) contexts, software agents and adaptive software techniques can play an important role. In this respect, ACEC 2012 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications, and trends in this research area. We enthusiastically solicit papers that address agent mediation and management of services and/or products of on-line businesses.

Best Papers Awards

As in the past editions, the best paper of the ACEC track will receive the 'Best Papery Award'.
In addition this year the Best Paper and the Student Best Paper will receive a money award in the form of reimbursement of expenses up to 400 Euros each.

These awards are sponsored by AWARENESS, a FET coordinated action funded by the European Commission under FP7 framework program that provides support for researchers interested in Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems.

 

Topics

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

• Adaptive and/or agent-mediated workflow, supply chain, or virtual enterprises
• Methodologies, languages and tools to support agent collaboration
• Agent architectures and infrastructures for dynamic collaboration
• Adaptive and/or Agent-based service architectures and infrastructures
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on agents
• Services for dynamic agent collaboration
• Agent-to-Human service interactions
• Autonomous, Adaptive and/or Agent-mediated service integration
• Organizational and enterprise systems that leverage Web 2.0
• Adaptive and Agent-mediated cloud environments

 

Important Dates

Deadline for paper submission:	16 March 2012
Decision to paper authors	16 April 2012
Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE:	30 April 2012
21th IEEE WETICE-2012 conference:	25 - 27 June 2012

Paper Submission:

Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere, and references to related state-of-the art work. Please send your papers in PDF or PS format. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the conference. Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single-spaced, two columns, 10pt Times/Roman font. Papers should include a title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words and no more than eight keywords. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three program committee members. The accepted papers and the summary report produced by each group will be published in the post-conference proceedings (to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press).