SOC-MAS 2011 - 2011 International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing and Multi-Agent Systems (SOC-MAS'11)

2011 International Workshop on
Service-Oriented Computing and Multi-Agent Systems (SOC-MAS’11)

http://siwn.org.uk/cods11/soc-mas11.htm

At the 5th International Conference on Complex Distributed Systems (CODS'2011)
http://siwn.org.uk/cods11/

Call for Papers Flyer [PDF]

Service-Oriented Computing is becoming one of the most important mainstream paradigms for the engineering of large scale complex open systems. It is widely recognized that when combined with multi-agent systems (MAS) principles, techniques and methodologies, the full potentials of service-oriented computing will be further released. There are also many common research issues in these two closely related research areas. However, over the years solutions have been developed separately in different communities.

SOC-MAS’11 provides a premier forum for researchers and engineers alike in both communities to present state-of-the-art research and development progresses in all areas related to architectures, design, implementation, applications and evaluation of service-oriented computing and multi-agent systems with emphasis on the interplay between the two. It aims at fostering the collaborations across the boundary.

Topics

Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to) the followings.

Development methodologies: Agent/Service oriented software engineering principles, methods techniques and processes, including requirements analysis and specification, modelling, design, testing, quality assurance, reliability and adaptability, and tools, etc.
Enabling techniques: resource allocation, negotiation, quality of services, and workflow management in service-oriented/agent-oriented computing, especially for utility computing, cloud computing, etc.
Infrastructures and architectures: the frameworks, platforms and architectures for agent-oriented/service oriented computing;
Fundamental issues: Multi-agent collaboration and interactions; service description, discovery, composition, orchestration and choreography; Service Level Agreements (SLA), etc.
Languages: Service-oriented and agent-oriented programming languages, environments and platforms; service and agent communication languages; ontology generation, management, semantic services.
Applications: The applications of agent technology and service-oriented computing in E-Business, E-collaboration management, e-Science, Healthcare services, Mobile and ubiquitous computing

Important Dates, Submission, Proceedings and Journal Publications

Online Submission SOC-MAS'11 https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=...

Technical Chair

Professor Dr Hong Zhu
School of Technology
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford, UK
E-mail
http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/HongZhu/

International Program Committee

Farooq Ahmad, National University Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
Arantza Aldea, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China
Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn , Germany
Christof J. Budnik, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
W.K. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Giuseppe Di Lucca, University of Sannio, Italy
Howard Foster, City University London, UK
Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy
Des Greer, Queen's University of Belfast, UK
Zhi Jin, Peking University, China
Jim-Min Lin, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Xinjun Mao, National University of Defense Technology, China
Daniel Rodriguez, University of Alcalá , Spain
Lijun Shan, National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological Research Center, China
Dianxiang Xu, Dakota State University, USA
Haiping Xu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University, Canada