Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on embedded, wearable, and mobile devices http://autonomousagents.org/ubiagents/ Tueasday July 16, 2002 University of Bologna held in conjunction with the 2002 Conf. on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems SUBMIT PAPERS HERE

The pervasive computing environments of the near future will involve the interactions, coordination and cooperation of numerous, casually accessible, and often invisible computing devices. These devices, whether carried on our person or embedded in our homes, businesses and classrooms, will connect via wireless and wired links to one another and to the global networking infrastructure. The result will be a networking milieu with a new level of openness. The localized and dynamic nature of their interactions raises many new issues that draw on and challenge the disciplines of agents, distributed systems, and security. This one-day workshop will explore the issues and problems which underlie this vision and discuss current work aimed at addressing them.

We seek participants that include researchers engaged in the challenges and opportunities for new and existing research in an open agent environment, developers interested in technical and commercial aspects of the future of agent based mobile devices, infrastructures, applications and services and experts in related areas such as wireless and ad-hoc networking, pervasive computing, mobile devices, mobile services and applications, wireless middleware and infrastructure. The workshop will be based on the presentation of technical papers by attendees and discussion of issues related to the key objectives outlined above. The main topics of interest include:

• agents and intelligent components for resource limited devices (requirements, porting, downsizing,...)
• scalable agents and their automatic configuration and adaptation
• agent persistency and transactions in wireless environments
• agent communication and coordination in mobile environments
• agents for and in ad hoc networking environments
• agent based mobile applications and services
• location detection and location sensitive services
• agent security and trust in mobile environments
• agent infrastructures / platforms for mobile and dynamic environments, agent management
• context aware agents
• agent-oriented sensor networks and sensor fusion
• intelligent interfaces for hand held devices
• agent-based service discovery, matching and composition for ad hoc networks
• adaptive agents, personalization, profiling, and learning in mobile environments
• design approaches dealing with reliability, efficiency, and fault tolerance
• agents for wearable computing
• test beds and development environments, e.g. for m-commerce, location-based applications, m-services, etc.

Workshop Format

The workshop will comprise three technical sessions covering different aspects of the key workshop objectives and a panel/debate session providing a forum for open discussion. Technical session will include presentations of submitted papers and/or invited speakers and will include time for discussion after each presentation. Session chairs for each topic will moderate and encourage discussion. Workshop participants must register for the main Autonomous Agents 2002 conference as well as this workshop by following the instructions at http://www.autonomousagents.org/2002/.

Participation and paper submission

• Full papers may be five to eight pages in length and should describe original work related to workshop topics.
• Short papers and position statement should be two to four pages in length and should describe a problem or research issue that you consider to be important or on which you are working.

Evaluation will be through electronic submission followed by peer review by three reviewers and final decision by workshop chairs. The selection criteria will be relevance to the workshop themes, originality and significance of research and quality of presentation. All accepted papers will be available on the day of the workshop in a set of working notes and also available online. We also intend to publish a volume including selected short position papers and a discussion paper produced from the panel session in each of the workshop focus areas. This subsequent publication should produce an interesting snapshot of the state of the art and challenges in open agent environments. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and considered for presentation. All papers should be formatted following the style of ACM conference proceedings. Templates for Word, WordPerfect and LaTeX are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Submissions will be electronic only and should be made via the submission web site. Please contact Filip Perich or technical assistance in submissions or Tim Finin if you would like to submit a paper but are unable to do so via this web interface. The following deadlines will apply:

• Paper submission deadline: 22nd April, 2002
• Author notification: 12th May, 2002
• Camera-ready copy deadline: 22nd May, 2002
• Date of Workshop: Tuesday July 16th, 2002

Organization

Workshop co-chairs

Workshop Organizers

• Michael Berger (Siemens AG, Germany), michael.berger@mchp.siemens.de
• Patricia Charlton (Motorola, France), patricia.charlton@crm.mot.com
• Tim Finin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA), finin@umbc.edu
• Stefan Poslad (Queen Mary, University of London, UK), stefan.poslad@elec.qmul.ac.uk
• Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, U.A.E), zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae
• Qusay H. Mahmoud (Simon Fraser University, Canada), qmahmoud@cs.sfu.ca
• Wathiq Mansoor (Zayed University, U.A.E), wathiq.mansoor@zu.ac.ae

Additional Program Committee members:

• Bernhard Bauer (Siemens AG, Germany)
• Walter Binder (CoCo Software Engineering, Austria)
• Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Brian Blake (Georgetown University, USA)
• Bernard Burg (HP Laboratories, USA)
• Fabio Bellifemine (TI Labs, Italy)
• Asuman Dogac (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
• Larbi Esmahi (Athabasca University, Canada)
• Sylvain Giroux (Sherbrooke University, Canada)
• Heikki Helin (Sonera, Finland)
• Willem Jan van den Heuvel (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
• Dave Hobbs (University of Bradford, UK)
• Jarle G. Hulaas (Centre Universitaire de Genève, Switzerland)
• Anupam Joshi (UMBC, USA)
• Paul Labbé (DREV, Canada)
• Heimo Laamanen (Sonera, Finland)
• Ora Lassila (Nokia, USA)
• Ryuske Masuoka (Fujitu Laboratories of America, USA)
• Patrik Mihailescu (Monash University, Australia)
• Dilip Patel (South Bank University, UK)
• Stephen Quirolgico (Aether Systems, USA)
• Norman Sadeh (CMU, USA)
• John Shepherdson (British Telecom, UK)
• Amund Tveit (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)