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== Deadlines == * Submission Deadline for Regular Papers: 17 March 2008 final extension * Submission Deadline for Position Statement Papers: 17 April 2008 * Author Notification: 14 April 2008 * Author Registration: 30 April 2008 * Proceedings Version: 30 April 2008 * Workshop Dates: 28 July - 1 August 2008 == Workshop Theme == Applying Semantic Web Technologies in Research and Development of Software Agents, Mobile Agents and Multi-Agent Systems towards INTEGRATING THE DISTRIBUTED WORLDS. == Scope == Semantic web technologies render dynamic, heterogeneous, distributed, shared content equally accessible to human reader and software agents. Distributed agents functioning autonomously can utilize semantic Web content to gather and aggregate knowledge, reason and infer new results towards achieving their goals and generating new knowledge. Such knowledge in turn may be disseminated and used to achieve the shared goal of the agents system. Here the vision is to achieve a synergy with multi-agent systems (MAS) technologies whereby both semantics and agents will be equally in the center stage. ESAS workshop series aims at garnering the synergy of both technologies by taking up both the semantic web and the agent aspects of the common research issue. Topics of interest span a wide spectrum in both theory and practice of autonomous semantic agents, context-aware intelligent agents, agents as semantic web services, software agents, mobile agents, agent architectures, multi-agent systems, agent communities, cooperation and goal seeking through sharing policy and ontology, safety & security in systems, other QoS issues, and so on. Mobile agent and MAS technologies are crucial in realizing multi-party dynamic application systems. Semantic Web technologies augment MAS by enabling agents with functioning based on the semantics of their mission and of the world around them. Agents, implemented as Web services in developing distributed control and processing applications, entail interesting consequences such as situation awareness, semantic composition of services, context sensitive long-lasting transactions, effecting service policies and quality levels, etc. Complex applications could become realizable with novel features such as factory floor automation for flexible production, collaborative discovery of uncharted geography (for example, cooperative labyrinth discovery), traffic management and info dissemination with facilitation of emergency services, financial markets forecasting with optimization of portfolio gain, etc. == Likely Participants == Researchers and practitioners of semantic software agents, mobile agents, MAS and semantic Web technologies are invited to propose papers and to attend the workshop. Those with interests in ontology-based systems, semantic agents, and agent-based systems are welcome. Researchers working on the following are especially encouraged to propose papers: realization of multi-agent systems through semantic web technology, ontology-based agent applications, distributed control and processing applications, security & trust, interoperability, service levels and quality issues in such systems. Enterprises and research centers developing ontology, languages, integrated development environments, tools, and middleware that are employed in engineering the above are encouraged to propose demo and tutorial presentations. == Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) == Software Agents, Mobile Agents, and MAS:<br> . Issues relating to architecture<br> . Implementation, coordination<br> . Service levels, security <br> . Semantic or otherwise agents <br> Agent, MAS and Semantic Web Technologies <br> . Concomitant utilization of specific technologies in agent <br> . MAS <br> . Semantic Web implementations <br> . Semantic agent communities & applications <br> . Case studies of best-practice MAS applications <br> . Projects in the making <br> Ontologies for Agents and MAS <br> . Agent cooperation and coordination ontology <br> . Ontology of workflow in MAS <br> . Ontologies for distributed applications and integration <br> . Sharing and semantic interoperability <br> . Discovery and operations on ontologies <br> . Trust & security issues <br> Platforms for agent and MAS implementation <br> . Languages <br> . Frameworks <br> . Tools <br> . Integrated development environments and software Engineering practices supporting semantic or otherwise software agent & MAS architectures <br> . Communication & coordination <br> . Trust & security mechanisms <br> . Description, discovery, and composition of agent-based services <br> . Other subjects of relevance in semantic software agents, mobile agents, agent-based, and multi-agent systems. <br> == Submission Guidelines & Publication == Original papers will be considered. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee according to its originality, significance, correctness, presentation, and relevance. We encourage authors to present position papers on practical studies and experiments, critiques of existing work, emerging issues, and novel ideas under development. Papers must be submitted electronically via the ESAS 2008 Submission Page (http://rs.cs.iastate.edu/COMPSAC2008Workshops/ESAS2008/). Manuscripts will be limited to 6 pages including all figures, tables, and references. The format of submitted papers must follow the IEEE conference proceedings guidelines (i.e., 8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format (PDF: instruct.pdf; DOC: instruct.doc); Layout Guide (PDF: format.pdf; DOC: format.doc; all under ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/). All accepted papers will be published in the electronic conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society, indexed through INSPEC and EI Index (Elsevier's Engineering Information Index), and automatically included in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the workshop for the paper to be included in the proceedings. Each accepted paper must be presented in person by (one of) the author(s). The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for publication in a special issue of the Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering by Blackwell Publishing. ESAS 2008 is a sequel in the very successful ESAS Workshops Series of the IEEE COMPSAC conferences: acceptance ratio has been less than 35% in both ESAS 2006 and E == Post-Workshop Activity == The authors of the selected papers of ESAS 2008 and 2007 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in the Special Issue on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems in the Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering by Blackwell Publishing (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0266-4720&site=1). The full CFP for the special issue is available through the Journal site and from the chairmen. A special issue of the best papers of ESAS 2006 has been finalized and awaiting publication in the first issue of 2009 with the Multiagent and Grid Systems - An International Journal, IOS Press, ISSN 1574-1702. == Workshop Chairs == * [[Has general chair::Atilla Elci]], Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus * [[Has general chair::Mamadou Tadiou Kone]], Laval University, Québec, Canada * [[Has general chair::Mehmet A. Orgun]], Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia == Program Committee == *[[Has PC member::Alia Abdelmoty]], Cardiff University, UK *[[Has PC member::Alex Abramovich]], Gordon College, Israel *[[Has PC member::Grigoris Antoniou]], University of Crete, Greece *[[Has PC member::Mehmet Emin Aydin]], University of Bedfordshire, UK *[[Has PC member::Costin Badica]], University of Craiova, Romania *[[Has PC member::Susmit Bagchi]], Samsung Electronics (SISO), India *[[Has PC member::Zeki Bayram]], Eastern Mediterranean Univ., TRNC *[[Has PC member::Tibor Bosse]], Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands *[[Has PC member::Frank F. P. Dignum]], Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands *[[Has PC member::Tharam S. Dillon]], Curtin University of Technology, Australia *[[Has PC member::Weichang Du]], University of New Brunswick, Canada *[[Has PC member::Peter Eklund]], The University of Wollongong, Australia *[[Has PC member::Riza Cenk Erdur]], Agean University, Turkey *[[Has PC member::Vadim Ermolayev]], Zaporozhye State University, Ukraine *[[Has PC member::Martin Gaedke]], Chemnitz University of Technology,Germany *[[Has PC member::Manolis Gergatsoulis]], Ionian University, Greece *[[Has PC member::M.Adeeb Ghonaimy]], Ain Shams University, Egypt *[[Has PC member::Aditya K. Ghose]], University of Wollongong, Australia *[[Has PC member::Paolo Giorgini]], University of Trento, Italy *[[Has PC member::Ibrahim Gokcen]], General Electric Co. Global Research Center, USA *[[Has PC member::Guido Governatori]], The University of Queensland, Australia *[[Has PC member::Giancarlo Guizzardi]], Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy *[[Has PC member::Stijn Heymans]], DERI, Austria *[[Has PC member::Bo Hu]], University of Southampton, UK *[[Has PC member::Joris Hulstijn]], Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands *[[Has PC member::Ismail Khalil Ibrahim]], Johannes Kepler University, Austria *[[Has PC member::Mustafa Jarrar]], University of Cyprus, Cyprus *[[Has PC member::Eui-Hyun Jung]], Anyang University, Korea *[[Has PC member::Ahmad Kayed]], Applied Science University, Jordan *[[Has PC member::Natalya Keberle]], Zaporozhye National Univ., Ukraine *[[Has PC member::C. Maria Keet]], University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy *[[Has PC member::Michel C. A. Klein]], Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands *[[Has PC member::Alexander Kostin]], Eastern Mediterranean Univ., TRNC *[[Has PC member::Aneesh Krishna]], Engineering University of Wollongong, Australia *[[Has PC member::Peter Kropf]], Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland *[[Has PC member::Mark Last]], Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel *[[Has PC member::Pieter De Leenheer]], Vrije Universiteit, Belgium *[[Has PC member::Constantine Mantratzis]], University of Westminster, London, UK *[[Has PC member::Brahim Medjahed]], University of Michigan, USA *[[Has PC member::Thomas Meyer]], Meraka Institute, South Africa *[[Has PC member::Vitaliy Mezhuev]], Berdyansk State University, Ukraine *[[Has PC member::Rym Z. Mili]], University of Texas at Dallas, USA *[[Has PC member::Lars Mönch]], FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany *[[Has PC member::Maurice Pagnucco]], The University of New South Wales, Australia *[[Has PC member::Michal Pechoucek]], Czech Technical University, Czech Republic *[[Has PC member::R. Rajesh]], Bharathiar University, India *[[Has PC member::Markus Schaal]], Bilkent Univ., Turkey *[[Has PC member::Ferat Sahin]], Rochester Institute of Technology, USA *[[Has PC member::Chattrakul Sombattheera]], Mahasarakham University, Thailand *[[Has PC member::Michael Stollberg]], DERI Innsbruck, Austria *[[Has PC member::Markus Stumptner]], University of South Australia, Australia *[[Has PC member::Kaile Su]], Peking University, China *[[Has PC member::Vijayan Sugumaran]],Oakland University, USA *[[Has PC member::York Sure]], SAP Research, Germany *[[Has PC member::Andreas Tolk]], Old Dominion University, USA *[[Has PC member::Jan Treur]], Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands *[[Has PC member::M. Osman Unalir]], Egean University, Turkey *[[Has PC member::Rainer Unland]], University of Essen, Germany *[[Has PC member::Laurentiu Vasiliu]], DERI Galway, Ireland *[[Has PC member::Dirk Vermeir]], Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium *[[Has PC member::Levent Yilmaz]], Auburn University, USA *[[Has PC member::Sule Yildirim]], Headmark University College, Norway *[[Has PC member::Pınar Yolum]], Bogazici University, Turkey *[[Has PC member::Mohammed Zaki]], Al-Azhar University, Egypt == Contact == For updated information, please refer to the ESAS entry through Workshops tab at www.compsac.org or contact the workshop chairperson Atilla.Elci at EMU.edu.tr.: <br> [[Category:Workshop]] <!-- For more available types of events, go to [[:Category:Event]]. -->
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