8th International Workshop on
Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration (ACEC)
at WETICE 2010
Date: June 28 - 30, 2010
Location: Larissa, Greece

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News

Jan 8^th, 2010: List of Program Committee updated on the webpage.
Nov 11^th, 2009: The ACEC-2010 Web page is online.

Overview

The autonomy and intelligence of software agents have greatly enhanced automation in many operational domains. A major benefit of using agents is the ability to assist in the collaboration among humans and software mechanisms, alike. Agent-enacted collaboration can be extremely helpful in areas such as Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Workflow and Supply Chain Management, Automation in Virtual Enterprises, and Automated Distributed Component Composition.

This episode of the Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration (ACEC) workshop will concentrate on two main themes:

Agent-based Services

Agent-based Solutions for Dynamic Collaborations

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 while taking into account the unexpected circumstances and changing scenarios, which frequently occur in business ecosystems.

In both of these (above given) contexts, software agents can play an important role. In this respect, ACEC 2010 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.

Topics

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

Agent-mediated workflow, supply chain, or virtual enterprises

Methodologies, languages and tools to support agent collaboration

Agent architectures and infrastructures for dynamic collaboration

Agent-based service architectures and infrastructures

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on agents

Services for dynamic agent collaboration

Agent-to-Human service interactions

Agent-mediated service integration

Accepted Papers

Title: Towards Agent-based ‘Smart’ Collaboration in Furniture Manufacturing Enterprises
Authors: Anthony Karageorgos¹, Dimitra Avramouli¹, Konstantina Vassilopoulou², Christos Tjortjis³, Georgios Ntalos¹
Author Affiliation: ¹TEI of Larissa, Karditsa Branch, GR-43100 Karditsa, Greece ²Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, GR-17671, Greece
³University of Ioannina, Ioannina, GR-45110, Greece
Type of Paper: Full Paper

Title: Agent Architecture and Infrastructure for Dynamic Collaborative Learning (AICOL)
Authors: Godwill Vegah, Usman Wajid
Author Affiliation: The University of Manchester, UK
Type of Paper: Full Paper 

Title: Analysis and Categorization of Enterprises for Agent-based Automation
Authors: Kristi Kirikal, Kuldar Taveter
Author Affiliation: Department of Informatics. Tallinn University of Technology. Tallinn, Estonia
Type of Paper: Full Paper

Title: The Alpha-Flow Use-Case of Breast Cancer Treatment – Modeling Inter-Institutional Healthcare Workflows by Active Documents
Authors: Christoph Newmann, Richard Lenz
Author Affiliation: Institute of Computer Science 6 (Data Management). Friedrich-Alexander University. Erlangen, Germany
Type of Paper: Full Paper

Title: An Agent based Approach for Balancing Commuter Traffic
Authors: Martin Carpenter, Nikolay Mehandjiev
Author Affiliation: The University of Manchester, UK
Type of Paper: Short Paper

Title: Agent-based Social Networks for Enterprise Collaboration
Authors: Federico Bergenti, Enrico Franchi, Agostino Poggi
Author Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Type of Paper: Short Paper 
 

Workshop Program

Deadline for paper submission:	March 14, 2010
Decision to paper authors:	April 2, 2010
Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE (extended):	April 22, 2010
WETICE-2010:	June 28 - 30, 2010

Workshop Chair:

Dr. Usman Wajid
Manchester Business School,
The University of Manchester. UK
E-mail: acec2010@mbs.ac.uk

Steering Committee:

Dr. Federico Bergenti Researcher Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A 43100 Parma, Italy E-mail:bergenti@ce.unipr.it Prof. M. Brian Blake Associate Dean of Engineering, Strategic Initiatives Professor of Acomputer Science and Engineering University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 Email:mb7@cse.nd.edu Prof. Giacomo Cabri Ph.D., Assistant Professor Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia E-mail giacomo.cabri@unimo.it

Program Committee: 

Anthony Karageorgos - Technological Educational Institute of Larissa, Greece
Cesar Marin - Manchester Business School, UK
Habin Lee - Brunel University London, UK
Hafiz Farooq Ahmad - National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan
Jorg P. Muller - Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Nikolay Mehandjiev - The University of Manchester, UK 
Ramon F. Brena - Center for Intelligent Computation and Robotics, Mexico