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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>August 4 – 8, 2011, Detroit, MI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mini-rack: Multi-Agent Systems and Semantic Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(Sponsored by SIGABIS)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mini-Track Co-Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Stefan Kirn, Universität Hohenheim, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Multi-agent systems and semantic technologies have been recognized as one of the most important Information Technologies and have received considerable attention from both academia and industry. Significant progress has been made over the last few years in the development of multi-agent systems and semantic web applications in a variety of fields such as electronic commerce, supply chain management, resource allocation, intelligent manufacturing, mass customization, information retrieval and filtering, decision support, simulation, and healthcare. 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 and semantic technology design, implementation, integration and deployment. In addition, novel techniques for developing semantic web applications and agent-based systems in different domains would be of interest. This mini-track is intended to increase cross-fertilization of ideas from these domains, and share the lessons learned. Building on its success in the last eleven years, this mini-track is expected to serve as the spring-board for gathering and disseminating experiences gained in implementing and integrating multi-agent systems and semantic applications in an industrial setting. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Best papers from this mini-track will be fast tracked for publication in a special issue of International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Possible Topics (but not limited to):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Intelligent Applications in Business<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Distributed Intelligent Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Information agents<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Agent architectures and behavior models<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Models and architectures for agent-oriented information systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Agent-based software engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Multi-agent systems and applications in different domains<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Agent communication, collaboration, and coordination<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Mobile Agents<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Agents and web data mining<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Multi-agent technology and grid computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Architectures, environments and languages for e-commerce agents<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Automated shopping and trading agents<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Agent-based auction and negotiation in e-commerce<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Agent building tools and environments<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Privacy, security, and trust issues in agent-based e-commerce environments<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Organizational impact of agent-based systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Semantic interoperability<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Semantic web for e-business and e-learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Service discovery, description, and composition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Semantic Web mining<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Ontology mapping, Integration, and/or alignment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Software agents for Semantic Web<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Innovative Semantic Web/Ontology applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Managerial Issues of Semantic Web/Ontology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Semantic technologies and tools<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Further information about the conference is available at (http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/) and electronic submission of papers has to be done via the ScholarOne system at (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2/17/2011 Submission deadline <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>3/24/2011 Authors notified of paper acceptance decision <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>4/21/2011 Camera-Ready Papers due<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>========================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Vijayan Sugumaran, Ph.D<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Professor of Management Information Systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Decision and Information Sciences Department<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>School of Business Administration<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Oakland University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rochester, MI 48309<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Phone: 248.370.2831<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fax: 248.370.4275<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>========================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>