Connectionists: CfP - Adaptive Computing (and Agents) for Enhanced Collaboration (ACEC) at WETICE 2018

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*16th Adaptive Computing (and Agents) for Enhanced Collaboration (ACEC)*

Track at IEEE WETICE 2018<http://www.olab-dynamics.net/wetice2018>

Paris, France, June 27-29, 2018

http://didattica.agentgroup.unimore.it/ACEC2018


Call for Papers

*Aims and Scope*

Over its 15 years in existence, ACEC has focused on worksthat explorethe 
adaptability, autonomy and intelligence of software agents for the 
collaboration across the enterprise. In 2018, organizers would like to 
continue to explore the research on agent-based computing, but they 
would also welcome works that leverage advanced adaptive techniques, non 
necessarily based on software agents. In addition to the traditional 
domain areas, i.e., Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Workflow and 
Supply Chain Management, Automation in Virtual Enterprises, and 
Automated Distributed Service Composition, ACEC isalso interested in new 
adaptive techniques, e.g., Cloud Computing, Crowd-Sourcing and Social 
Networking.

In addition to traditional papers, the forthcoming 16th episode of ACEC 
welcomes papers from two focus areas:

  * Adaptive and Agent-based Services
  * Adaptive Techniques for Organizational/Enterprise Use of Emerging
    Web Paradigms (Cloud, Crowd-sourcing, Mobile Apps)

Such two themes represent important areas where software agents can 
leverage their distributed nature,along with their proactive and 
autonomous characteristics, to provide solutions to complex problems, 
which are difficult to solveusing traditional/existing technologies.

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*Topics of Interest*

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  * Adaptive and/or agent-mediated workflow, supply chain, and virtual
    enterprises
  * Methodologies, languages and tools to support agent collaboration
  * Agent architectures and infrastructures for dynamic collaboration
  * Adaptive and/or Agent-based service architectures and infrastructures
  * Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) based on agents
  * Services for dynamic agent collaboration
  * Agent-to-Human service interactions
  * Autonomous, Adaptive and/or Agent-mediated service integration
  * Organizational and enterprise systems that leverage the Web 2.0
  * Adaptive and Agent-mediated cloud environments

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*Important Dates*

  * Paper submission: *March 2, 2018*
  * Notification:*April 8, 2018*
  * Camera ready: *April 13, 2018*
  * Registration: *April 13, 2018*
  * Conference:*June 27-29, 2018*

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*Paper Submission*

Papers should contain original contributions (not published or submitted 
elsewhere) and references to related state-of-the art work. Please 
submit your papers in PDF or PS format.

Papers up to 6 pages (including figures, tables and references) can be 
submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single-spaced, 
two columns, 10pt Times/Roman font. Papers should include a title, the 
name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words and 
no more than eight keywords. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed 
by a minimum of three program committee members. The accepted papers 
will be published in the post-conference proceedings (to be published by 
the IEEE Computer Society Press).

Authors of accepted papers must present their papers at the conference. 
*At least one author for each accepted paper should register and attend 
WETICE 2018 to have the paper published in the proceedings.*

The paper submission procedure is carried out using the EasyChair 
conference management system:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wetice2018

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*Track Chairs*

  * Stefania Monica, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
  * Federico Bergenti, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
  * M. Brian Blake, Drexel University, USA
  * Giacomo Cabri, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
  * Usman Wajid, The University of Manchester, UK