2-nd CfP: Invited Session AKSS-CE at 10-th ISPE CE

2-nd Call for Papers: Automated Knowledge and Service Sharing in Agent-Enabled 
Concurrent Engineering

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ISPE/CE2003 Conference and Exhibition
10th ISPE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 
CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
Carlton Madeira Hotel - Madeira Island, Portugal
26 - 30 JULY, 2003
http://isg.uninova.pt/ce2003/
Invited Session on: 
Automated Knowledge and Service Sharing
in Agent-Enabled Concurrent Engineering
http://www.zsu.zp.ua/ce-2003

Call for Papers 

Concurrent Engineering (CE) is widely known as an effective product development 
approach. Its major objective is to reduce the system/product development time 
and effort through a better integration of activities and processes. As defined 
by the US Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), CE is the systematic approach 
to the integrated, concurrent design of products and related processes, 
including manufacturing and support throughout the whole product life cycle 
from conception to disposal. 
CE methodology becomes even more attractive today and in the future when the 
procedures and the technologies of design and manufacturing become more 
globalized, standardized, dynamic and flexible. The challenge for the future 
generation of CE methodologies and infrastructures is the provision of the 
solutions for automated rational interoperation among independent human and 
artificial team-players in open organizations. The appearance of virtual 
enterprises, consortia as temporary coalitions in design and manufacturing make 
CE activities and processes globally dispersed organizationally and 
geographically. Another big task for CE methodology is to properly and 
effectively guide the assembly of a design or a production process from 
matching distributed service components. The services are evidently provided by 
independent parties and possess varying availability and price over time. The 
facet of reputation and trust among the members of these open dynamic 
constellations of ec!
 onomically rational agents is of extreme importance as well.
The agent paradigm has proved its capability to provide successful solutions 
for the application areas where autonomous, loosely-coupled, heterogeneous, and 
distributed systems or players need to rationally interoperate in order to 
achieve a common goal. Ontologies are recognized as shared common 
specifications of the concepts used for interoperation in open heterogeneous 
systems of autonomous rational agents. It is topical that both Agents and 
Ontologies are central to the rapidly emerging Semantic Web. Their combined use 
will enable the sharing of heterogeneous, autonomous knowledge on services, 
service providers, service capabilities in a scalable, adaptable and extensible 
manner in frame of the Semantic Web of Services.
The focus of CE'2003 is 'The vision for the future generation'. Following this, 
we solicit research and profound visionary papers providing for better 
understanding of and forming the emerging landscape of (semi-)automated 
knowledge sharing models, methodologies, solutions and infrastructures in 
agent-enabled CE. 

Scope 

The scope of the session is formed of, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Models, methodologies and solutions supporting the semi-automation of 
knowledge sharing in open CE organizations
- Ontology based semantic interoperation among agents in open CE architectures
- Modelling and semantics of life cycles in CE 
- Automated negotiation, argumentation and reaching consensus among 
team-players in the processes of CE
- Dynamic CE process planning execution and control by coalitions of 
interoperating agents
- Semantic Web Services as an enabling technology for agent-based CE
- Dynamic reputation assessment, trust and coalition formation among agents in 
CE domain

Submissions and Publication

Only full paper submissions will be accepted to CE2003, subject to the 
international scientific rules for review. Only electronic submissions will be 
accepted to the Session. Please submit the PDF version of your manuscript to 
one of the Session co-chairs:

Vadim Ermolayev
Dept. of Mathematical modeling and IT, 
Zaporozhye State Univ., 
Zaporozhye, Ukraine
eva-Q2TQJgYsIBj3fQ9qLvQP4Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Valentina Tamma
Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool
Liverpool UK
valli-5fL7ta8dD402EctHIo1CcQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Proceedings will be published as an ISBN numbered book with accompanying CD by 
A.A. Balkema Publishers (http://balkema.ima.nl/) and will be available at the 
conference.

The authors of selected papers will be invited to publish their extended 
versions in International Scientific Journals:
- International Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research & Applications 
(CERA Journal)  (http://www.ceraj.com/)
- International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM) 
(http://www.inderscience.com/catalogue/i/ijiem/ijiem.html)
- International Journal of Agile Manufacturing(IJAM) 
(http://www.geocities.com/ijamjournal/)
- Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems(JAMS) 
(http://www.worldscinet.com/jams/jams.shtml)

Review

Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the conference 
program committee and selected on the basis of their relevance, originality and 
scientific quality. Program committee members targeted to the session 
submissions review are (alphabetically):

Sonia Bergamaschi, Univ. of Modena, Italy
Ying Ding, Univ. of Insbruck, Austria
Vadim Ermolayev (co-chair), Zaporozhye State Univ., Ukraine, 
eva-Q2TQJgYsIBg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Valentina Tamma (co-chair), Univ. of Liverpool, UK, 
valli-5fL7ta8dD402EctHIo1CcQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Steven Willmott, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 
Michael Wooldridge, Univ. of Liverpool, UK 

Author guidelines

Papers should include: Title, name(s) and affiliations(s) of authors, an 
abstract of no more than 200 words, a set of relevant keywords, resulting in a 
manuscript of six to eight A4-size pages together with figures and references.  
Please also include a cover sheet containing name, address, telephone, FAX 
numbers, and e-mail address of the person to whom correspondence regarding the 
paper should be addressed.
Formatting guidelines may be downloaded from 
http://isg.uninova.pt/ce2003/instrution_to_authors.htm 

Important dates

Friday, February 28, 2003: Paper submission deadline
Monday, March 24, 2003: Notification of acceptance
Monday, April 14, 2003: Camera ready due
Monday, April 21, 2003: Preliminary program due
Friday, April 25, 2003: Early bird registration deadline
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