AWeSOMe'07

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The Third International Workshop on Agents and Web Services in Distributed Environments (AWESOME'07) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/awesome2007cfp.html

The IEEE FIPA Agent and Web Services Interoperability (AWSI) Working Group meeting is co-located with AWESOME'07.

In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'07) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf

Albufeira, Portugal, 25 - 30 Nov 2007 Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

Web services are a rapidly expanding approach to building distributed software systems across networks such as the Internet. A Web service is an operation typically addressed via a URI, declaratively described using widely accepted standards, and accessed via platform-independent XML-based messages.

Agents, on the other hand, are autonomous software entities that inhabit an environment and interact with each other in order to achieve their own goals on behalf of their owners.

Emerging ontologies are being used to construct semantically rich service and environment descriptions. Techniques for planning, composing, editing, reasoning about and analysing these descriptions are being investigated and deployed to resolve semantic interoperability between services and agents within scalable, open environments.

Agents and multi-agent systems can benefit from this combination, and can be used for web service discovery, use, composition and implementation. In addition, web services and multi-agent systems bear certain similarities, such as a component-like behaviour, that can help to make their integration much easier.

The AWESOME workshop is an interdisciplinary workshop based on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the development of an intelligent service Web.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Agent-based modelling and design techniques to address problems in web service system development;
• Agent-based resource and service management in grid environments;
• Agents and the semantic web;
• Architectures and infrastructure for distributed agent- or service- based frameworks;
• Architectures for supporting agents and web services within the semantic web;
• Autonomic computing
• Capability matching and matchmakers;
• Communication patterns for web services;
• Composing agents and web services (on the grid);
• Distributed Environments
• Intelligent matchmaking and service brokering;
• Interoperability of web services;
• Issues of trust for web services, agents and ontologies;
• Multi-agent techniques to describing, organizing, and discovering web services;
• Ontology or semantic-based approaches to describing and classifying services and capabilities;
• Ontologies for describing service parameters and request preferences;
• Ontologies for describing agent resources and agent security parameters;
• Ontologies for describing low-level services and platform characteristics;
• Process modeling for service/agent composition, orchestration and coordination;
• Scaleable service composition for heterogeneous environments;
• Security support for agents and services, and agent-based approaches to service security;
• Semantics for service delegation and knowledge aggregation;
• Semantics in Agent Communication Languages;
• Services and the semantic web, including initiatives such as OWL-S (formerly DAML-S);
• Software engineering for agent-based semantic web services;
• Supporting service discovery and service management using agent-based approaches;
• Use of agent-based approaches for web service personalization;
• Use of context and conversations for Web services composition;
• Use of web service infrastructure and tools for building multi-agent systems;
• Web agents.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers submitted to AWeSOMe'07 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference.

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Authors instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.