CFP: Agent 01 Workshop on Agent Supported Cooperative Work (ASCW01)
Yiming Ye
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WORKSHOP ON AGENT SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK (ASCW01)
at 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents(Agents 2001)
Montreal, Canada, Tuesday, May 29, 2001
* Paper Submission Due Date: March 16th, 2001 *
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/y/yiming/ASCW01.html
The increasing use of networking, coupled with an increasing
distribution in the operations of organisations, has
resulted in increasing problems of administration, management
and control of information and co-ordination of work.
With the aim of providing solutions to such problems,
research into Computer Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW) is
concerned with investigating approaches and technologies for
the support of group work, both within and among
organisations, in which the group members may be distributed
geographically.
In parallel with recent advances in CSCW there have been
also been interesting developments in the fields of
Intelligent Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence
(DAI), notably in the concepts, theories and deployment of
intelligent agents as a means of distributing computer-based
problem solving expertise. The concept of intelligent agents
has given rise to an exciting new technology of wide
potential applicability. In particular, the paradigm
of multi-agent systems forms an appropriate basis for the
design of CSCW architectures, the support of CSCW operations
and for investigating the problems of co-operative working,
noted above. The application of a multi-agent approach to
CSCW can potentially help to make information exchange among
the participants easier, provide support to the participants
(e.g. in the form of Decision Support Systems), assist
workflows and procedures, and provide convenient user
interfaces to CSCW systems. Furthermore, the ideas inherent
in such an approach are also applicable to other domains,
for example, support for interactive learning. Many
organisations, that seek to exploit the advantages offered
through CSCW, could derive benefit from the integration
of agents in the management and use of their corporate
knowledge.
WORKSHOP AIMS:
- to bring together researchers and practitioners, from
industry and academia, in the areas of intelligent agents,
computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and their
interaction,
- to provide a forum for the presentations and discussion
of current developments in the theory and applications in
the field,
- to identify important research issues and potential areas
for future work,
- to explore the particular benefits of, and technological
problems in the employment of agents in CSCW,
- to identify common and complementary research interests
among participants which may lead to possible collaboration
in future research into the application of intelligent
agents to CSCW
TOPICS OF INTERESTS:
The Workshop will address both theoretical and practical
issues. Appropriate topics for papers include, but are not
limited to, the following:
- multi-agent macroscopic modelling of group work
- multi-agent cooperation and coordination in social group
work
- multi-agent mechanisms for task decomposition, dispatch
and synthesis in group work
- multi-agent architectures and CSCW
- multi-agent engineering design support
- user agents in CSCW
- interface agents in CSCW
- mobile agents in CSCW
- agent support for distributed working
- the influence of agents on the work environment
- the role of agents in virtual work environments
- agent-assisted Web-based distributed awareness
- agent-assisted group-awareness
- agent-assisted collaborative editing
- agents and multi-agent systems in peer-to-peer computing
PAPER SUBMISSION:
All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of
technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
Electronic submission is encouraged and preferred.
Submissions should be sent by email in either MS-Word, PDF,
or PostScript format, to either of the organisers, by
March 16th, 2001. If electronic submission is NOT possible,
four hardcopies of the paper by regular mail should be sent.
ADDRESSES FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Dr. Yiming Ye
Email: yim...@watson.ibm.com
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
30 Saw Mill River Road (Route 9A)
Hawthorne, N.Y. 10532
USA
Tel: (914) 784-7460
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Dr. Brian Lees
Email: lees...@paisley.ac.uk
Computing & Information Systems
University of Paisley
Paisley PA1 2BE
Scotland, UK
Tel: + 44 (0)141 848 3311
Hardcopy papers should arrive before March 16th, 2001.
Submitted papers are expected to be formatted in the style
of ACM conference proceedings. Paper length should be
limited to 10 pages.Templates (Word, Word Perfect and LaTeX)
are available at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of papers to Workshop Organizers: March 16th, 2001
Notification to authors of paper acceptance: April 1, 2001
Submission of camera-ready copy: April 21, 2001
Workshop date: May 29, 2001
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