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Workshop Conference Session and Workshop on
Performance, Interoperability, and Applications of Mobile Agent Systems

April 10-11 2002, Lund University, Lund, SWEDEN


 
Background
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Important Dates
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Background

The conference session and workshop is organized by the Special Interest Group on Intelligent and Mobile Agents of Agentlink , the European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing. 

Mobile agents are a fascinating paradigm for design and implementation of dynamic distributed systems. Mobile agents are programs capable of deciding on their migration to other hosts. During migration the agent's state as well as its code must be transmitted. Their high degree of flexibility and adaptivity makes mobile agents a promising software pattern for the new generation of powerful mobile platforms by integrating their own capability for migration within a network with the platform's capability to accompany the end-user in daily life. Recent years have seen the development of a number of mobile agent systems which present new challenges along with increased functionality compared to traditional distributed systems. We are especially interested in the use of sound engineering practices in design and architecture for this class of systems as well as frameworks for quality of migration and interoperability between different systems. Our workshop will address these problem areas and will focus on topics that are highly relevant for acceptance and use of mobile agent technology.

Topics of Interest

We seek research contributions and experience reports that address the performance, interoperability, and applications of mobile agent systems. We particularly solicit submissions covering but not limited to:

    Mobile agent system architecture design issues.

    "Components-off-the-shelf" for mobile agent systems.

    Quantitative and qualitative analysis and comparison of mobile agent systems.

    Benchmarks and performance analysis of mobile agent systems.

    Design Pattern to improve the performance of mobile agent systems.

    Performance of mobile agents vs. other approaches.

    Scalability of mobile agent systems.

    Resource control.

    Mobile agent applications.

    Design patterns and abstractions that promote interoperability of mobile agent systems.

    Work related to the interoperability and standardization of mobile agent systems.

    Experiences with mobile agent testbeds and publicly accessible servers.

    Agency and service discovery for mobile agents.

    Critical reviews of existing approaches.

Whenever possible, results should be backed by experimental evidence, and/or should be evaluated against the existing systems, approaches, and literature.

Submissions to the workshop

Authors are encouraged to submit a full paper (10 pages maximum) or position papers (1-2 pages). Please send submissions by electronic mail as a PDF or Postscript document to the following address:

peter.braun@informatik.uni-jena.de
Full papers will be reviewed by the programme committee for relevance, clarity and novelty of results. If accepted, full papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE Computer Society. One author per paper must agree to present the paper at the conference session. Position papers will be published on-line and will be presented during the workshop.

Important Dates

Important dates for submission of full papers:

Submission date26 November, 2001
Notification of acceptance:  17 December, 2001
Final manuscripts due: 15 January, 2002

Important dates for submission of position papers:

Submission date25 January, 2002
Notification of acceptance: 15 February, 2002
Final manuscripts due: 1 March, 2002

Workshop Organizers

Wilhelm Rossak, University of Jena, Germany - rossak@informatik.uni-jena.de

Volker Roth, Fraunhofer Society, Darmstadt, Germany - vroth@igd.fhg.de

Peter Braun, University of Jena, Germany - peter.braun@informatik.uni-jena.de

Program Committee

Walter Binder, CoCo GmbH, Vienna, A 

Ciaran Bryce, University of Geneva, CH 
Bill Buchanan, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 
Michael Luck, University of Southampton, UK 
Thomas Magedanz, IKV++, Berlin, DE 
Patrik Mihailescu, Monash University, AU 
Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK 
Bruno Mueller-Clostermann, University of Essen, DE 
Wilhelm Rossak, University of Jena, DE 
Niranjan Suri, University of West Florida, USA 
Alex Villazon, University Geneva, CH 
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