CFP: 2nd Intl WS Integration of Software Engineering and Agent Technology (ISEAT 2006)

["Huhns, Michael" <huhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

       CALL-FOR-PAPERS
2nd International Workshop on=20
Integration of Software Engineering and Agent Technology (ISEAT 2006)=20
(http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~winikoff/ISEAT/ )
Theme: Architectures, Models, and Meta-Models=20
October 26-28, 2006, Beijing, CHINA

In conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Quality =
Software (QSIC 2006)=20
http://www.sei.pku.edu.cn/conference/qsic2006/=20

Agents are a promising new approach for designing and building the
increasingly complex software systems that are part of the essential
infrastructure of modern society. Structuring software as a collection =
of
autonomous agents can give a number of benefits including increased
flexibility, adaptability, and robustness. However, much of the research =
on
agent-oriented software engineering is done by a research community that =
has
strong links to agents, but weaker links to mainstream (non-agent) =
software
engineering and to industry.=20

In order for agent technology to make the shift from research labs to
industrial practice, bridges must be built between the agent research
community and the software engineering research community, and between
researchers and practicing software engineers. There have already been =
some
events that have begun this process of building bridges and attracting
interest in agent technology from industry. The first ISEAT workshop, =
which
was successfully run as part of the Fifth International Conference on
Quality Software (QSIC'05), was created with the aim of bringing =
together
researchers from the software engineering community and researchers from =
the
agent community. Through the theme of Languages, Tools and Platforms, =
the
workshop brought a pragmatic "flavor", which made it distinct from other
events that focus on agent-oriented software engineering. This year, the
theme is again oriented towards the pragmatic aspect by focusing on the
architecture, model and meta-model issues in the design and =
implementation
of agent-oriented systems and by addressing the integration of the
technologies and concepts of agent and software engineering.=20

TOPICS OF INTERESTS

We solicit papers on all aspects relating to software engineering and =
agent
technology, and their overlap. This includes, but is not limited to, =
papers
on the following topics:=20
-- Agent-oriented programming languages, modeling languages, =
specification=20
   languages, etc.=20
-- Agent platforms, architectures, and middleware=20
-- Tools supporting various aspects of developing and deploying agent =
systems=20
   such as development, debugging and testing.=20
-- Methodologies: processes and notations for capturing requirements and =

   designing agent systems.=20
-- Applications of agents, and experiences and lessons=20
-- Relationships between agent technology and other technologies such as =

   objects, web services, mobile computing, and the grid.=20
-- Reliability and fault-tolerance in agent-based systems=20
-- Testing, Verification & Validation of agent systems=20

SUBMISSION

Paper submission is by emailing a PDF file to hzhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with
subject line clearly indicating submission to 2nd ISEAT workshop. Papers
should be in IEEE format and be at most 6 pages long. For the details of =
the
formatting instructions please refer to the URL
http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.=20

All submitted papers will be reviewed by members of the Programme =
Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings by IEEE
Computer Society Press. As in 2005, selected papers from the workshop =
will
be invited to be extended and revised for submission to the =
International
Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (IJAOSE).=20

Submitted papers must be original, have not been published elsewhere or =
be
under consideration for publication elsewhere. If a paper is accepted, =
an
author must attend the workshop to present the paper.=20

IMPORTANT DATES
-- May 20, 2006 - Deadline for Submission of Papers=20
-- July 10, 2006 - Notification of Authors=20
-- August 11, 2006 - Deadline for Camera-Ready Versions=20

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Workshop Co-chairs:=20
Prof. Dr. Hong Zhu (hzhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)=20
Department of Computing, Oxford Brookes University, England =20

Dr. Michael Winikoff (winikoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)=20
School of Computer Science and Information Technology=20
RMIT University, Australia =20

Prof. Dr. Zhi Jin, (zhijin@xxxxxxxxxx)=20
Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Math. and Systems Science,=20
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China =20

Programme Committee

Bernhard Bauer (Universitat Augsburg, Germany)=20
Paolo Bresciani (ITC-irst, Italy)=20
Massimo Cossentino (Italian National Research Council, Italy)=20
Frank Dignum (Utrecht University, Netherlands)=20
Scott DeLoach (Kansas State University, USA)=20
Alessandro Garcia (Lancaster University, UK)=20
Aditya K. Ghose (Univ. of Wollongong, Australia)=20
Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento, Italy)=20
Xudong He (Florida International University, USA)=20
Brian Henderson-Sellers (Univ. of Tech. Sydney, Australia)=20
Marc-Philippe Huget (University of Savoie, France)=20
Michael Huhns (University of South Carolina, USA)=20
Thomas Juan (University of Melbourne, Australia)=20
Manuel Kolp (Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium)=20
Ho-fung Leung (Chinese University of HK, China)=20
Jurgen Lind (iteratec GmbH, Germany)=20
Lin Liu (Tsinghua University, China)=20
Graham Low (University of New South Wales, Australia)=20
James Odell (Intelligent Automation Inc, USA)=20
Andrea Omicini (Universit=A8=A4 di Bologna a Cesena, Italy)=20
Onn Shehory (IBM, Israel)=20
Leon Sterling (University of Melbourne, Australia)=20
Arnon Sturm (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)=20
Gerhard Weiss (SCCH GmbH, Austria)=20
Dianxiang Xu (North Dakota State University, USA)=20
Manwu Xu (Nanjing University, China)=20
Hongji Yang (DeMonte Fort University, UK)