ISEAT 2006

 2nd International Workshop on
       Integration of Software Engineering and Agent
                   Technology (ISEAT'05)
               Theme: Architectures and Models, Meta-Models

                            Oct 26-28, 2006, Beijing, China

                                  In conjunction with
 Sixth International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC'06)
        (http://www.sei.pku.edu.cn/conference/qsic2006/)
Agents are a promising new approach for designing and building the increasingly
complex software systems that are part of the essential infrastructure of modern
society. Structuring software as a collection of autonomous agents can give a number
of benefits including increased flexibility, adaptability, and robustness. However,
much of the research on agent-oriented software engineering is done by a research
community that has strong links to agents, but weaker links to mainstream (non-
agent) software engineering and to industry.

In order for agent technology to make the shift from research labs to industrial
practice, bridges must be built between the agent research community and the
software engineering research community, and between researchers and practicing
software engineers. There have already been some events that have begun this process
of building bridges and attracting interest in agent technology from industry. The first
ISEAT workshop, which was successfully run as part of the Fifth International
Conference on Quality Software (QSIC'05), was created with the aim of bringing
together researchers from the software engineering community and researchers from
the agent community. Through the theme of Languages, Tools and Platforms, the
workshop brought a pragmatic “flavor”, which made it distinct from other events that
focus on agent-oriented software engineering. This year, the theme is again oriented
towards the pragmatic aspect by focusing on the architecture, model and meta-model
issues in the design and implementation of agent-oriented systems and by addressing
the integration of the technologies and concepts of agent and software engineering.

Topics of Interest
We solicit papers on all aspects relating to software engineering and agent
technology, and their overlap. This includes, but is not limited to, papers on the
following topics:

   •    Agent-oriented programming languages, modeling languages, specification
        languages, etc.
   •    Agent platforms, architectures, and middleware
   •    Tools supporting various aspects of developing and deploying agent systems
        such as development, debugging and testing.
   •    Methodologies: processes and notations for capturing requirements and
        designing agent systems.
   •    Applications of agents, and experiences and lessons
   •   Relationships between agent technology and other technologies such as
       objects, web services, mobile computing, and the grid.
   •   Reliability and fault-tolerance in agent-based systems
   •   Testing, Verification & Validation of agent systems

Formats and Submission
Paper submission is by emailing a PDF file to hzhu@brookes.ac.uk with subject line
clearly indicating submission to 2nd ISEAT workshop. Papers should be in IEEE
format and be at most 6 pages long. For the details of the formatting instructions
please refer to the URL http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.

Important:

   •   Submitted papers must be original, have not been published elsewhere or
       under consideration for publication elsewhere.
   •   If a paper is accepted, an author must attend the workshop to present the
       paper.

Important Dates
   •   May 20, 2006 - Deadline for Submission of Papers
   •   July 10, 2006 - Notification of Authors
   •   August 11, 2006 - Deadline for Camera-Ready Versions

Organising Committee
Workshop Co-chairs:

Prof. Dr. Hong Zhu (hzhu@brookes.ac.uk)
Department of Computing, School of Technology
Oxford Brookes University, England
http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/HongZhu/

Dr. Michael Winikoff (winikoff@cs.rmit.edu.au)
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
RMIT University, Australia
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~winikoff

Prof. Dr. Zhi Jin, (zhijin@amss.ac.cn)
Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
http://www.math.ac.cn/Chinese/F/Jinzhi.htm
Programme Committee (DRAFT)

Aditya K. Ghose (Univ. of Wollongong, Australia)
Alessandro Garcia (PUC-RIO, Brazil)
Andrea Omicini (Università di Bologna a Cesena, Italy)
Arnon Sturm (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Bernhard Bauer (Universität Augsburg, Germany)
Brian Henderson-Sellers (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Dianxiang Xu (North Dakota State University, USA)
Frank Dignum (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Gerhard Weiss (Technische Universitat Munschen, Germany)
Graham Low (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Ho-fung Leung (Chinese University of HK, China)
Hongji Yang (DeMonte Fort University, UK)
James Odell (James Odell Associates, USA)
Jürgen Lind (iteratec GmbH, Germany)
Leon Sterling (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Lin Padgham (RMIT University, Australia)
Lin Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
Manuel Kolp (Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Manwu Xu (Nanjing University, China)
Marc-Philippe Huget (University of Savoie, France)
Massimo Cossentino (Italian National Research Council, Italy)
Michael Huhns (University of South Carolina, USA)
Onn Shehory (IBM, Israel)
Paolo Bresciani (IRST, Italy)
Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento, Italy)
Scott DeLoach (Kansas State University, USA)
Thomas Juan (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Xudong He (Florida International University, USA)