Workshop organizers

Contact Point: Vincent Hilaire vincent.hilaire@utbm.fr

Workshop Chairs:

•    Massimo Cossentino, ICAR-CNR (Italy) and UTBM (France)
•    David Faure Thales Group (France)
•    Vincent Hilaire, UTBM (France)
•    Sebastian Rodriguez FRT-UTN (Argentine)



1 - Description

Building on top a first successful edition in 2007, a second edition of the ACW workshop is now being proposed. This new edition resumes the topics proposed in the previous edition of the workshop and it aims at renewing the success in terms of quality of submitted paper and discussion during the event. It is now more focussed on knowledge engineering issues underlying collaborative works and it aims at a broader range of applications from business intelligence to eLearning.
In today’s challenging global market, companies have to innovate in order to improve competitiveness and business performance. They must bring innovative products to market more effectively and more quickly to maximize customer interest and sales. The pressures to reduce time, improve product quality, and lower costs have not gone away; they are being reaffirmed and folded into programs that focus on delivering the “right” product. Companies must continue to enter new markets with innovative products. This requires leveraging and reusing the product-related intellectual capital created by partners working together. Business innovation must occur in several dimensions: project organization, product definition, production engineering, ergonomics design, environmental impacts, etc.
Several approaches exist for supporting companies in this innovation challenge. They are mainly based upon Knowledge Management techniques. Agents and Multi-Agent Systems may offer solutions to model (multiple) organisations involved in collaborative design activities. Agents may also support the capitalization process and constitute knowledge bases transparently for the users.
This workshop will focus on the use of agents and multi-agent systems for modelling and supporting collaborative activities in all working contexts, such as, design activities, eLearning, etc.

2 - Topics

A non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop includes the following:

•    Methods and Models:
1.    Agent based CSCW
2.    Agent oriented analysis and design methods for CSCW systems
3.    Agent based models of collaborative activities
4.    Ontologies and theories about collaborative activities
5.    Agent based capitalization
6.    Agent based reuse of knowledge
7.    Collaborative design of products and software
8.    Formal models of agent-based CSCW
9.    Organizational applications of agent use in CSCW
•    Implementation of CSCW systems:
1.    Agent-oriented architecture for multi-enterprise or multi-organization collaborations
2.    Architectures and platforms for agent-based CSCW deployment
3.    Human-computer interaction in CSCW
4.    CAD and virtual reality design-helper agents
5.    Practical application examples
•    Annotations
1.    Agent based automatic annotations techniques
2.    Semantic annotations
3.    Reasoning techniques for annotations
•    eLearning
1.    Agent based eLearning
2.    Agent Knowledge capitalization and reuse in an eLearning context
•    Industrial cases

3 - Program Committee:

Emmanuel    Adam, LAMIH, France      
Frédéric    Armetta, LIESP,    France  
Carole    Bernon, IRIT,    France   
Anarosa    Brandão, ITL,  Brasil
Valerie    Camps, IRIT,    France   
Ricardo     Choren, IME, Brasil
Ernesto    Damiani, DTI, Italy
Jacques    Ferber, LIRMM, France
Ruben    Fuentes, SIP, Spain
Jorge    Gomes-Sanz    SIP,   Spain 
Zahia    Guessoum, LIP6, France
Miniar    Hemaissia-Jeannin, Thales, France
Abderraffiâa    Koukam, SeT, France
Gaëlle    Lortal, Thales, France
Vito    Morreale, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Italy 
Andrea    Omicini, DEIS, Italy  
Luca    Sabatucci, IRST - FBK, Italy
Valeria    Seidita,    DII-University of Palermo,    Italy  
Ludger    Van Elst, KMRG, Germany   

Other researchers/practitioners in the field have been contacted and their answer is waited soon.

4 - Submission

Submissions must be made through the submission website: http://sigappfr.acm.org/confs/index.php?conference=ICDIM09&schedConf=2009&page=presenter&op=submit do not forget to select the Agent Supported Collaborative Work for Knowledge Management Track.

You are invited to submit full length papers, not exceeding 4-6 pages (3000-4000 words) in length, in two-column format including diagrams and references, following IEEE publication guidelines. Papers that do not follow these guidelines may be rejected without consideration of their merits. Papers must be submitted electronically to the contact point in PDF format.  All accepted papers will be published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore.
All papers will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members on the basis of technical quality, originality, clarity, and relevance to the track topics listed below. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each paper must attend the workshop to present the paper.
Camera Ready papers should follow the IEEE conference templates . (http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/confstandards/pdfexpress/index.html)

5 – Important dates

Submission deadline : june 30
Notification : july 31
Final date for camera-ready copy : september 1
Conference : november 1-4