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Subject: Fwd: CfP ETAPS 2004 Workshop on UML and Agents (A-UML 2004)
From: BARRETEAU Olivier (Olivier.Barreteau@montpellier.cemagref.fr)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 11:49:38 CEST
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>[Apologies for multiple postings]
>
>Call for Papers for
>ETAPS 2004 Workshop on UML and Agents (A-UML 2004)
>
>To be held at ETAPS 2004
>March 27th-April 4th 2004
>Barcelona, Spain
>
>http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/auml2004/
>
>*********************
>IMPORTANT DATES
>*********************
>
>Submissions due - November 24, 2003
>Notifications sent - January 12, 2004
>CRC version - February 23, 2004
>Workshop date - to be announced
>
>*********************
>INTRODUCTION
>*********************
>
>Over the past decade, software agents and multiagent systems have grown into
>one of the most active areas of research and development activity in computing
>generally. In addition, trends and concepts of agents can be found in the
>SemanticWeb initiative, in WebServices and e-business collaboration standards.
>There are many reasons for the current intensity of interest, but certainly
>one of the most important is that the concept of an agent as an autonomous
>system, capable of interacting with other agents in order to satisy its design
>objectives, is a natural one for software designers.
>
>Recently, there has been a growth of interest in the potential of agent
>technology in the context of software engineering. In the agent-oriented
>software engineering community, some point out that agents represent a new
>paradigm for software engineering. Therefore, we need a different way of
>expressing complex and dynamic systems in terms of concepts such as
>collaboration, coordination, and negotiation. In contrast, others stress the
>need to explore the usage of existing software engineering approaches to
>design multiagent systems. With either approach, a unified modeling language
>(UML) would be useful way to represent the artifacts of agent-based systems
>development.
>
>In this workshop we will seek to examine the credentials of agent-based
>approaches as a software engineering paradigm, and to gain an insight into
>how agent-oriented software engineering can benefit from UML. New approaches
>emerged already based on work done in software engineering. Designers begin to
>use and to extend the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to represent agents or
>interactions for instance. At present, there exist different alternatives all
>based on UML: Agent UML, AOR, PASSI, Tropos. The aim of this workshop is to
>provide an event where it will be possible to compare the different
>approaches. A greater part of this workshop will be dedicated to
>discussions. The ideal should be that a unification of the different
>approaches arises
>from this confrontation during the workshop.
>
>By co-locating the workshop with a major software engineering event, we
>hope to
>attract a strong software engineering and formal methods audience, and hence
>to implement a fruitful forum for discussion and identification of research
>needs and collaboriation possibilities between the agents and software
>engineering and in particular UML communities.
>
>*********************
>TOPICS OF INTEREST
>*********************
>
>We welcome the submission of all papers on aspects of usage of UML for
>agent oriented software engineering, but particularly the following (all
>based on UML):
>
>* Methodologies for agent-oriented analysis and design
>* Relationship of agent-oriented software to other paradigms (e.g., OO,
>P2P, WebServices);
>* UML and agent systems;
>* Code generation from UML specification
>* Agent-oriented requirements analysis and specification;
>* Refinement and synthesis techniques for agent-based specifications;
>* Verification and validation techniques for agent-based systems;
>* Software development environments and CASE tools for AOSE;
>* Formal methods for agent-oriented systems, including specification and
>verification logics;
>* Engineering large-scale agent systems;
>* Experiences with field-tested agent systems;
>* Best practice in agent-oriented development;
>* Relationship between agents and component technologies (e.g., EJB)
>* Agents in enterprise application integration and business process
>(re-)engineering
>* Definition of semantic information based on UML (e.g., Ontologies,
>Semantic Web)
>* Re-use approaches for agent-oriented software, including design
>patterns, frameworks, components, and architectures;
>
>*********************
>FORMATTING
>*********************
>
>Submitted papers must be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. Templates
>(llncs.cls, llncs.sty, or sv-lncs.dot) are available at:
>http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
>We encourage participants to submit a short paper (ten pages max), describing
>their work on one or more of the topics mentioned above. All non-presenting
>participants will need to submit a one-page position statement which presents
>their view on UML and Agents relative to (one of) the workshop topics.
>
>All submissions must include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete
>mailing address, phone number, fax number and email address. Please submit an
>abstract not exceeding 10 lines within your submission mail.
>
>*********************
>SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
>*********************
>
>Preferably, the submission should be sent either in PostScript format or
>in PDF
>format by email to Marc-Philippe.Huget@imag.fr.
>The deadline for receipt of submissions is November 24th, 2003. Papers
>received
>after this date will not be reviewed.
>
>********************* ORGANISING COMMITTEE
>*********************
>
>Co-chairs:
>Marc-Philippe Huget (primary contact)
>MAGMA, INPG/Leibniz
>46, Avenue Felix Viallet
>38031 GRENOBLE CEDEX
>FRANCE
>Marc-Philippe.Huget@imag.fr
>Bernhard Bauer
>Institute of Computer Science
>University of Augsburg
>D-86135 Augsburg
>Germany
>Bernhard.Bauer@informatik.uni-augsburg.de
>James Odell
>James Odell Associates
>3646 W. Huron River Dr.
>Ann Arbor, MI 48103
>email@jamesodell.com
>
>*********************
>PROGRAM COMMITTEE
>*********************
>
>* Federico Bergenti (Italy)
>* Massimo Cossentino (Italy)
>* Scott DeLoach (USA)
>* Marie-Pierre Gervais (France)
>* Paolo Giorgini (Italy)
>* Heinrich Hussmann (Germany)
>* Jürgen Lind (Germany)
>* Philippe Massonet (Belgium)
>* Jörg Müller (Germany)
>* Van Parunak (USA)
>* Anna Perini (Italy)
>* Bernhard Rumpe (Germany)
>* Gerd Wagner (The Netherlands)
>* Gerhard Weiss (Germany)
>* Franco Zambonelli (Italy)