ICPS'07 : IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Workshop

ICPS07

Call for Papers

Program

Contact Info

Downloadable PDF version of the CFP

Aims and Scope

To develop ubiquitous and pervasive services and applications, new engineering methodologies and paradigms have been arising in recent years in the areas of software engineering, Multi-agent Systems and Mobile Computing. The interaction paradigms have been classified into three categories: the traditional Client to Server Paradigm (CSP) and two alternative paradigms, Adaptive services to Client paradigm (ASCP) and Spontaneous Service Emergence paradigm (SEP). These alternative paradigms that are more suitable for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing respectively require self-organizing, self-adaptive and emergence capabilities to cope with dynamically changing context environments such as computing contexts and user contexts. To address these issues, software architectures involve many dynamically interacting software agents.

This workshop aims to provide a forum in which to focus on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering methods, concepts, models, languages and tools that enable the design and development of practical applications in the context of ubiquitous and pervasive computing (UPC). It aims to bring together researchers, students and professionals from Software Engineering area, Multi-agent Systems area and Mobile Computing area to reach a better understanding of the relationships between them and promote their research efforts.

List of topics

The topics of interest for AUPC’2007 workshop include but are not limited to:

• Agent-Oriented Software Engineering for UPC
• Coordination and interaction models for software agents
• Mobile collaboration systems for UPC
• Peer-to-peer services and Information distribution for UPC
• Middleware for UPC
• Multi-agent Systems for UPC
• Self-organization of Multi-agent Systems
• Spontaneous and adhoc Service Emergence
• Methodologies and techniques for agent-based web service discovery and composition systems
• Service-oriented agent-based architectures
• User and context self-awareness for UPC
• Specification, validation and verification of agent-based systems for UPC
• Software agents security and privacy issues for UPC

Paper Submission and Proceedings

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts, which should be written in English and with a very precise and concise presentation of no more than 6 pages in IEEE double-column format. Authors are invited to send their manuscripts as an attachment (PDF or PS format) by email to the workshop chairs at gaber@utbm.fr and bakhouya@gwu.edu. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.

Accepted papers will be available on IEEExplore.

Important Dates

Papers are to be submitted electronically

• Submission deadline: extended to April 27, 2007
• Notification of acceptance: May 2, 2007
• Final Manuscript due: May 10, 2007
• Special issue's volume of selected papers (revised and extended version), presented at the workshop, will be published in the International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications (ITSSA)

Organization

Jaafar Gaber (FR)
Mohamed Bakhouya (USA)
Maxime Wack (FR)
Ahmed Nait-Sidi-Moh (FR)
Nathanael Cottin (FR)
Mahjoub Dridi (FR)

Committees

Gerd Kortuem (UK)
Houda Labiod (FR)
Carole Bernon (FR)
Taleb-Bendiab Azzelarabe (UK)
Nikolaos Georgantas (FR)
Richard Olejnik (FR)
Miseldine Philip (UK)
Huaglory Tianfield (UK)
Nouredine Ketaf (FR)
Tarek El Ghazawi (USA)
Pascal Lorenz (FR)
Gianluca Moro (Italy)
Hafid Abouaissa (FR)
Dipanjan Chakraborty (India)
Björn Gottfried (Germany)
Vicenc Torra (Spain)
Mohamed Brahma (FR)
Mohamed El Hachimi (Canada)
Chadi Maghmoumi (FR)
Behrouz Far (Canada)
Maxime Wack (FR)
Jaafar Gaber (FR)
Mohamed Bakhouya (USA)
Ahmed Nait-Sidi-Moh (FR)
Nathanael Cottin (FR)
Yaser Ysaf (FR)
Minyi Guo (Japan)
Iyad AlShabani (FR)
Mahjoub Dridi (FR)
Ralf Regele (DE)

Contact

Dr Jaafar Gaber
Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard
Rue Thierry Mieg 90010 Belfort Cedex, France
voice: +33 (0)3-8458-3252, +33 (0)6-8134-6243
fax: +33 (0)3-8458-3342
emails: gaber@utbm.fr, gaber@science.gmu.edu
http://www.utbm.fr

Dr Mohamed Bakhouya
George Washington University (GWU)
High Performance Computing Laboratory (HPCL)
801 22nd Street NW, Washington DC 20052
Phone: 202 994-0523, fax: 202 994-0227
emails: bakhouya@gwu.edu
http://hpcl.seas.gwu.edu/~bakhouya/