SOCASE2007

About the Workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multiagent Systems, Semantic Technology, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multiagent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating Service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, and adaptability.

The Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering workshop (SOCASE) continues the theme of previous SOCABE workshop successfully held at AAMAS’06, AAMAS’05 and WSABE workshops held at AAMAS’04 and AAMAS’03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide spectrum of issues of the cross section between agent-based and Service-oriented paradigms.

SOCASE 2007 is organized by an extended Organizing Committee giving the workshop an additional focus on research in ontology-related topics of Service-oriented Multiagent Systems.

Topics

We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology, Semantic Technologies, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed Service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems
• Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for Service-oriented software and Semantic Web development
• Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for Multiagent System design and development
• Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering
• Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography
• Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements
• Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and Service-oriented agent systems
• Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom etc.), and lessons learnt
• Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution
• Ontology learning and ontology reasoning
• Ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents
• Information retrieval and semantic integration by agents
• Automatic generation of ontologies

Submissions

Papers should be formatted according to ACM specifications. ACM style guides, as well as templates and style sheets for Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, and LaTeX can be found here.

Two types of submissions are available: regular submissions of length 3000-4000 words (approx. 8-12 printed pages) and position papers of length 1200-2000 words (approx. 4-6 printed pages).

Submission is to be done electronically at www.easychair.org/SOCASE2007.

If you are a new user, please follow the instructions on the login page. Please make sure that you specify a valid e-mail address, since your password information is sent to you by e-mail.

Registered users enter the submission system by filling in user name and password. Once logged in, users can upload new submissions or alter or delete existing ones.

For further questions please contact Jingshan Huang at huang27@engr.sc.edu.

The only format allowed for electronic submission is PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format). Papers will not be accepted in any other format (e.g., MS Word).

Deadline for workshop papers is February 5, 2007, midnight -Hawaii time-

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics. Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers must be of real relevance to the Multiagent research community.

Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the first author by March 5, 2007. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and to attend the workshop in order to present the work.

Accepted papers will be made available in electronic form prior to the workshop and a printed collection will be available at the workshop. As exercised with previous workshops’ best papers, the SOCASE 2007 workshop proceedings may form the basis of a journal special issue, subject to appropriate number and quality of submissions.