Workshop on
Ubiquitous Agents on embedded,
wearable, and mobile devices
http://autonomousagents.org/ubiagents/

Tuesday July 16, 2002
University of Bologna

held in conjunction with the
2002 Conf. on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems

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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.

Important dates:

  • Paper submission deadline: 22nd April, 2002
  • Author notification: 12th May, 2002
  • Camera-ready copy deadline: 29nd May, 2002
  • Date of Workshop: Tuesday July 16th, 2002
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Organization

Workshop co-chairs

Tim Finin
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore MD 21250
Phone:+-1-410-455-3522
Fax:+-1-410-455-3969
finin@umbc.edu

Zakaria Maamar
Zayed University
PO. Box 19282, Dubai U.A.E
Phone: (971) 4 2082 461
Fax: (971) 4 2640 854
zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae

Workshop Organizers

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)

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