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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>19th Americas Conference on Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Track Name: Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (Sponsored by SIGODIS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/track-list/77-amcis-2014/101">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/track-list/77-amcis-2014/101</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h4 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Mini-Track: Modelling for Agents and Services<o:p></o:p></h4><h4 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></h4><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong>Ghassan Beydoun</strong>, University of Wollongong, <a href="mailto:beydoun@uow.edu.au">beydoun@uow.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b>Rubén Fuentes</b>, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, <a href="mailto:ruben@fdi.ucm.es">ruben@fdi.ucm.es</a><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b>Dongming Xu</b>, University of Queensland, Australia, <a href="mailto:d.xu@business.uq.edu.au">d.xu@business.uq.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>The objective of this mini-track is to encourage and renew research in agents and service-based systems with an emphasis on the modeling perspective on these systems. Recent modeling efforts in the agent software engineering community have produced many languages, methods and frameworks that facilitate the development of multiagent systems. There have also been many efforts to facilitate the use of agents to implement service-based systems and orthogonal efforts to model service-based systems. This mini-track seeks to encourage the exploration of the use of agent models to facilitate the modeling and delivery of service-based systems, using agent systems or otherwise. The purpose of this mini-track is to provide a forum for academics and practitioners to identify and explore the issues, opportunities, and solutions that improve the modeling of service systems and at the same time to further the scope of agent oriented software engineering.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><h1 style='margin-top:0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'>Suggested Topics (not exhaustive)<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>ˇ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Agent-based services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>ˇ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Agent models and ontology in service science<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>ˇ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Applications of agent models<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>ˇ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Agent oriented software engineering trends<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='ma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