AMCIS 2000

Americas Conference on Information Systems

Long Beach, California
August 10^th - 13^th, 2000

Call for Papers for the Mini Track

"Intelligent Agent Technology and Applications"

Intelligent agent technology is emerging as one of the most important, and rapidly advancing areas in Information Technology.  There is a tremendous explosion in the development of agent-based applications in a variety of fields such as electronic commerce, supply chain management, resource allocation, intelligent manufacturing, industrial control, information retrieval and filtering, collaborative work, decision support, and computer games.  While research on various aspects of intelligent agent technology and its application is progressing at a very fast pace, this is only the beginning.  There are still a number of issues that have to be explored in terms of agent design, implementation, and deployment.  For example, salient characteristics of agents in different domains, formal approaches for agent-oriented modeling, designing and implementing agent-oriented information systems, agent collaboration and coordination, and organizational impact of agent-based systems are some of the areas in need of further research.  The purpose of this mini-track is to provide a forum for academics and practitioners to identify and explore the issues, opportunities, and solutions related to intelligent agent modeling, design, implementation, and deployment.  Several agent-based systems have been developed in different application domains employing a variety of techniques.  This mini-track is also intended to increase cross-fertilization of ideas from these domains, and share experiences and lessons learned.

Possible Topics may include, but not limited to:

• Information agents
• Agent architectures and behavior models
• Models and architectures for agent-oriented information systems
• Agent-based software engineering
• Agent collaboration, and coordination
• Agent communication languages
• Human and agent interaction models
• Agent-based workflow modeling
• Agent-based delegation in workflow system
• Agents and knowledge management
• Agent-based manufacturing systems
• Agent-based active decision support systems
• Agent-based procurement and logistics systems
• Agent-based command and control systems
• Agent-based monitoring systems
• Ontologies and agents
• Agents and web data mining
• Architectures, environments and languages for e-commerce agents
• Automated shopping and trading agents
• Auction and negotiation for e-commerce agents
• Privacy, security, and trust issues in agent-based e-commerce environments
• Organizational impact of agent-based systems

Mini Track Chair

Vijayan Sugumaran
Department of Decision and Information Sciences
School of Business Administration
Oakland University
Rochester, MI 48309
Office: (248) 370-2831
Fax: (248) 370-4275
E-mail: sugumara@oakland.edu