ESAS 2014 - The 9th IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agents ? Semantics, Agents and Intelligence (ESAS 2014)

ESAS 2014: The 9th IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agents - Semantics, Agents and Intelligence
Paper submission sites for all workshops will be open on Feb. 3, 2014.
Goal of the Workshop:
ESAS 2014 has three complementary objectives:
i. To inquire into the theory and practice of engineering semantic multi-agent systems, especially methods, means, and best cases;
ii. To explore into unifying software engineering methodologies employed in implementing semantic MAS applications across domains; and,
iii. To deploy new technologies in the fields of semantic intelligence, semantics-based systems, and applications especially for big data, social networks, e-health, on-line education, and intelligent learning environments.
Theme of the Workshop:
In unison with the main conference, the main theme of ESAS 2014 is Applying Semantic Web technologies in developing software agents, mobile agents and multi-agent systems towards the integration of heterogeneous and mobile services in smart environments especially through big data, social networks, crowd sourcing, e-health, public web well-being, on-line education, and intelligent learning environments. Semantic Web technologies render dynamic, heterogeneous, distributed, shared content equally accessible to human reader and software agents. Distributed agents functioning autonomously can utilize Semantic Web content to gather and aggregate knowledge, reason and infer new results towards achieving their goals and generating new knowledge. Such knowledge in turn may be disseminated and used to achieve the shared goal of the agents system. Here the vision is to achieve a synergy with multi-agent systems (MAS) technologies whereby both semantics and agents will be equally in the center stage. Semantic Web technology topics are welcome.
ESAS workshop series aims at garnering the synergy of both technologies by taking up both the Semantic Web and the web services or agent based systems aspects of the common research issue. Topics of interest span a wide spectrum in both theory and practice of autonomous semantic agents, context-aware intelligent agents, semantic web services, software agents, mobile agents, intelligent systems, agent architectures, multi-agent systems, agent communities, develop and inference ontology, cooperation and goal seeking through ontology, safety & security in systems, other QoS issues, and so on.
We envisage a strong undercurrent of intelligent software agents, mobile agents, and MAS running through this workshop; side by side with the use of semantic technologies, there are several foci of interest:
? Software Agents, Mobile Agents, and MAS: issues relating to architecture, implementation, coordination, service levels, security of pervasive semantic or otherwise agents
? Agent, MAS and Semantic Web Technologies: concomitant utilization of specific technologies in agent, MAS, and semantic Web implementations; semantic agent communities & applications; case studies of best-practice MAS applications; projects in the making
? Ontologies for Agents and MAS: agent cooperation and coordination ontology; ontology of workflow in MAS; ontologies for distributed applications and integration; sharing and semantic interoperability; discovery and operations on ontologies; trust & security issues
? Platforms for semantic agent and MAS implementation: languages, frameworks, tools, integrated development environments and software engineering practices supporting semantic or otherwise software agent & MAS architectures, coordination, trust & security mechanisms, description, discovery and composition of agent-based services
? Semantic Intelligence and Applications: Big data, social network and crowd sourcing, e-health and web well-being, on-line education and intelligent learning environments applications based on ontology and semantic intelligence
? Other subjects of relevance in semantic technologies, semantic software agents, mobile agents, agent-based and multi-agent systems
Scope of the Workshop:
In relation to the main theme, topics of interest are interaction of semantics, agents, and intelligence including the following among others:
Web Semantics and Reasoning
- Knowledge Representation for the Web
- Ontologies and Linked Data
- Development Ontologies
- Semantic Web Rule Languages and Systems
- Semantic Querying Languages and Systems
- Ontology engineering and inference on the e-Technology such as Social Web, e-health, e-learning etc...
- Semantic Annotation
- Ontology Alignment and Merging
- Semantic based Reasoning: Scalability, Incompleteness, Expressivity, Vagueness, and Uncertainty
Systems on Semantic Web Technologies:
- Software development
- Software systems
- Systems and agent technology
- Systems and reasoning
- Systems and semantic technology
- Semantic intelligence in systems
- Database systems
- Embedded systems
- Healthcare information systems
- Education
Semantics of Big Data:
- Big Data Search and Mining
- Big Data & Web platforms
- Big Data and Social Networks
- Scalability and Big Data
- Knowledge Discovery from Big Data
- Computational Intelligence for Big Data
- Linked Big Data
- Security Intelligence with Big Data
Intelligent e-Technology and Semantic Web:
- Semantics for Managing Business Data
- Semantic Intelligent Enterprise Portals
- Semantic Processing in e-Learning
- Semantic Processing in e-Health
- Semantic Processing in Bio-information systems
- Semantic Processing in Social Networking
- Semantic Processing in Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
Workshop Paper Submission
Workshop papers are limited to 6 pages. Up to 2 additional pages (for a total of 8 pages) will be available for $250 per additional page charge. Author information must be removed from your submission to ensure the double blind review policy. Camera ready submissions of accepted papers must follow the formatting and submission guidelines provided by IEEE Computer Society at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/submissio...
Policy for Authors Submitting Multiple Papers
Main Conference papers:
An author can have at most three accepted papers in the main conference including full (regular) (no more than 2), short and special-session papers, excluding Doctoral Symposium and Poster papers. EACH accepted paper for the Main Conference must be registered separately, by paying one FULL registration fee per accepted paper. In case of multiple authors, each author must pay FULL registration fee to attend the conference with an individual name badge. Discounted student registration fee only applies to Doctoral Symposium papers.
Doctoral Symposium papers:
Each accepted Doctoral Symposium paper must have a student as the sole or first author and pay a discounted student registration fee for a student name badge, perhaps with a reduced set of privileges depending on the overall conference budget conditions. Faculty or senior authors of a Doctoral Symposium paper must also register with FULL fee to obtain a name badge (or have already secured a name badge through registration in other paper categories) in order to attend.
Workshop papers:
Workshops are affiliated, loosely coupled and co-located events. We do not limit the number of accepted workshop papers for workshop authors. However, each accepted Workshop paper must register with FULL fee, and in the case of multiple authors each attending an workshop, the author must register with FULL fee and receive an individual name badge.
Poster papers:
Each Poster paper must register in a discounted registration fee with reduced privileges.
Program Committee:
- Alex Abramovich, Gordon College, Israel
- Bo Hu, University of Southampton, UK
- Chattrakul Sombattheera, Mahasarakham University, Thailand
- Ibrahim Gökçen, GE International, Turkey
- Laurentiu Vasiliu, Peracton Ltd., Ireland
- Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University, USA
- M. Osman Ünalir, Egean University, Turkey
- Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Mehmet Emin Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, UK
- Metin Zontul, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey
- Mustafa Jarrar, Sina Institute - Birzeit University, Palestine
- R. Cenk Erdur, Agean University, Turkey
- R. Rajesh, Bharathiar University, India
- Rym Z. Mili, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
- Sule Yildirim Yayilgan, Gjovik University College, Norway
- Vassilya Abdulova, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey
- Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA
- Vitaliy Mezhuev, Berdyansk State University
- Zafer Dogan, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey
- Zeki Bayram, Eastern Mediterranean Univ., TRNC