ACW 2007

 Agent supported Cooperative Work (ACW 2007)

First International Workshop on
Agent supported Cooperative Work (ACW 2007)

In conjunction with the Second IEEE International Conference on Digital 
Information Management (ICDIM 2007)

October, 2007, Lyon, France
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 design activities in the 
context of a knowledge management approach.


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 design
          5. Agent based capitalization
          6. 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 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


Workshop Organizers

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

Workshop Chairs:

     * Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena (Italy)
     * Massimo Cossentino, ICAR-CNR (Italy) and UTBM (France)
     * Stéphane Galland, UTBM (France)
     * Vincent Hilaire, UTBM (France)


International Program Committee

     * Carole Bernon, IRIT University Paul Sabatier France
     * Anarosa Brandão, Intelligent Techniques Laboratory Brasil
     * Valérie Camps, IRIT University Paul Sabatier France
     * Ricardo Choren, Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME) Brasil
     * Ernesto Damiani, DTI Italy
     * Virginia Dignum, ICS The Netherlands
     * Jacques Ferber, LIRMM France
     * Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
     * Zahia Guessoum, LIP6 France
     * Salima Hassas, LIESP-UCB Lyon 1, France
     * Abderraffiâa Koukam, SET Laboratory, Univ. of Technology of 
Belfort-Montbéliard, France
     * Vito Morreale, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Italy
     * Andrea Omicini, DEIS Italy
     * Ludger Van Elst, KMRG Germany
     * Franco Zambonelli, SMI Italy


Submission

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 workshops will be published by IEEE in a single total 
conference volume and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore.

Selected papers after extension will be published in the following journals:
- Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) (ISSN 0972-7272)
- Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS) (ISSN 1554-1010)
- International Journal of Computanional Intelligence Research (ISSN 
0973-1873)
- International Journal for Infonomics (IJI) (ISSN 1742-4712)
- International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 
(IJITST) (ISSN 1748-569X)

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.

Important Dates

     * Submission deadline : june 4

     * Notification : july, 15

     * Final date for camera-ready copy : 1 august 2007