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Technical Program of the 4th IEEE/IFIP MATA-02 - October 22-24 Barcelona, SPAIN
- From: "K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Subject: Technical Program of the 4th IEEE/IFIP MATA-02 - October 22-24 Barcelona, SPAIN
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:57:43 +1200
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IEEE/IFIP MATA'02
Fourth International Workshop on
Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications
22nd - 24th October 2002, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.upf.es/mata-ma2002/
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FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
(early registration deadline October 11th)
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Scope
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The aim of the workshop is to provide a unique opportunity for researchers,
software and application developers, and computer network technologists to
discuss new developments on the mobile agent technology and applications.
The workshop will focus on mobile agent issues across the areas of network
management, mobile applications, Nomadic and mobile computing,
Internet applications, QoS management, policy-based management,
intelligent information gathering, Ad hoc networks and applications, active
and programmable networks, interactive multimedia, Tele-learning
applications,
mobile commerce, virtual home environment,and other related areas.
Technical Program
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IEEE/IFIP - MATA?02
Fourth INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
MOBILE AGENTS FOR TELECOMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS
22nd ? 24th October 2002, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
(co-located with MA2002, 24th - 25th October 2002)
http://www.upf.es/mata-ma2002/
Tuesday 22nd October 2002
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TUTORIALS
8:30 Registration
9:00 - 12:30 Tutorial A
Role and models of context for mobile agents
Patrick Brezillon, University Paris VI, France
9:00 Tutorial A ? Part 1
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Tutorial A ? Part 2
12:30 Free time for lunch
14:30 - 18:00 Tutorial B
Mobile agent systems performance evaluation: Methods, means and case studies
Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
14:30 Tutorial B ? Part 1
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Tutorial B ? Part 2
18:00 End of Session
Wednesday 23rd October 2002
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8:30 Registration
9:00 Opening Remarks
Welcome to the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Vice-Chancellor of the University
Opening of the Conference
Representative of the Catalan Government
9:30 Keynote
Clustering of Agent projects in Europe
Massimo Busuoli, EUTIST-AMI Cluster Co-ordinator, ENEA-UDA, Italy
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Session 1: Agent Architecture, Framework & Platforms
Chairperson: Thomas Magedanz, IKV++ Technologies AG, TU Berlin, Germany
Options for Reusing Agent Conversations
Santtu Toivonen, VTT Information Technology, Finland
Heikki Helin, Sonera Corporation, Finland
Multi-Management Schemes for MAF Platforms
Rui Pedro Lopes, Polytechnic of Braganca, Portugal
Jose Luis Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Architecture for negotiation with mobile agents
Jaime Delgado, Roberto García , Rosa Gil, Isabel Gallego,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
12:00 Session 2: Mobile Agent Framework for Telecommunication Services
Chairperson: Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Internet Agents for Effective Collaboration
Vidya Renganarayanan, Abdelsalam Helal, Amar Nalla, Subramanian Arumugam,
University of Florida, USA
Programming and executing telecommunication service logic with Moorea
reactive mobile Agents
Bruno Dillenseger, Anne-Marie Tagant, Laurent Hazard, France Télécom R&D,
France
Generic Engineering Approach for Agent-based System Development
Seongkee Lee, Taiyun Kim, Korea University, Korea
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Session 3: Context Aware & Ad hoc Communications
Chairperson: Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
Agent-based Context Aware Ad hoc Communication
M. Khedr, A. Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
R. Liscano, T. Gray, Mitel Corporation, Canada
Designing Multimedia Service Agents for Mobile users
M. Ahmed, R. Impey, National Research Council, Canada
H. Harroud, A. Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
A Mobile Agent-based Framework for Configurable Sensor Networks
Takeshi Umezawa, Yuichiro Anzai, Keio University, Japan
Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
15:30 Session 4: Mobile Agent in Active Networks
Chairperson: Eric Horlait, University Pierre Marie-Curie, France
An Ecosystem-inspired Mobile Agent Middleware for Active Network Management
Daniel Rossier, Rudolf Scheurer, Swisscom Innovations, Switzerland
An Enhanced Mobility Management Mechanism for Active Access Networks
Insu Kim, Keecheon Kim, Sunyoung Han, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
Hyukjoon Lee, Kwangwoon University, Korea
An Architecture for Active Network Performance Management Based on
Intelligent Agents
Antonio Barba, Ernesto Sánchez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,
Barcelona, Spain
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 Session 5: Distributed Monitoring and Network Management
Chairperson: Larry Korba, National Research Council, Canada
Evaluation of Migration Strategies for Mobile Agents in Network Routing
Sergio Gonzalez-Valenzuela, Son t. Vuong,
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
A Hybrid approach to Network Performance Monitoring based on Mobile Agents
and CORBA
Christos Bohoris, George Pavlou, Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey,
Guildford, UK
Mobile Agent Distribution in a Game Theoretic Approach
Robert Sugar, Sandor Imre, Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Hungary
18:00 End of Sessions
20:30 Gala Dinner
Thursday 24th October 2002
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8:45 Session 6: Security in Mobile Agents
Chairperson: Stefan Poslad, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Anonymous Communications for Mobile Agents
Larry Korba, Ronggong Song, and George Yee, National Research Council,
Canada
Implementation of Secure Architectures for Mobile Agents in MARISM-A
Sergi Robles, Joan Mir, Joan Ametller, and Joan Borrell,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
9:30 Keynote
FIPA and Security
Stefan Poslad, Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary University
of London, UK
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Session 7: Mobile Computing & QoS Management
Chairperson: Luis Orozco-Barbosa, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Quality of Service Management in IP networks using mobile agent Technology
T. Mota, PT Inovação, Aveiro, Portugal
S. Gouveris, G. Pavlou, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
A. Michalas, J. Psoroulas, NTUA, Greece
Transparent QoS Support of Network Applications using Netlets
Kalaiarul Dharmalingam, Martin Collier. Research Institute in Networks and
Communications,
Republic of Ireland
FIPA-based QoS Negotiator for Nomadic Agents
Alberto Montilla Bravo, Motorola España S.A, Madrid, Spain
Marisol García Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
12:00 Session 8: Migration & Network Management
Chairperson: Ulises Cortés, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
System and Network Itineraries for Mobile Agents
Emmanuel Reuter, Françoise Baude, INRIA - CNRS ? France
Four Multi-agent Architectures for Intelligent Network Load Management
Stefan Johansson, Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Martin Kristell, 4UIQ Technology, Sweden
Automated management of IP networks through policy and mobile agents
Kun Yang, Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Telma Motta, PT Inovação, Aveiro, Portugal
Stelios Gouveris, Univesity of Surrey, Guildford, UK
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Session 9: Mobile Services
Chairperson: Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Facilitating Agent Messaging on PDAs
Sasu Tarkoma, University of Helsinki, Finland
Mikko Laukkanen, Sonera Corporation, Finland
Reflective mobile agents enabling reconfigurable radios
Satish Jamadagni, Satish Doraiswamy, Sasken Communication Technologies
Limited, India.
Mobile Agents for Discovering and Accessing Services in Nomadic Environments
Zhou Wang, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Jochen Seitz, Ilmenau Technical University, Germany
15:30 Session 10: Collaborative Environment & Services
Chairperson: Roger Impey, National Research Council, Canada
An Extensible Mobile-Agent-Based Framework for Coordinating Distributed
Information Retrieval Applications
Edgar A. Olougouna, Samuel Pierre, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Roch H. Glitho, Ericsson Research Canada
Seamless Incorporation of Agents in an E-Commerce Intermediation Platform
Irene Sygkouna, Maria Strimpakou, Anastasia Kaltabani, Miltiades Anagnostou,
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Francisco Valera, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Luis Bellido, Enrique Vazquez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
UNITE ? an Agent-Oriented Teamwork Environment
Michael Zapf, Rolf Reinema, RubenWolf, and Sven Türpe,
Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Telecooperation, Germany
16:30 Closing remarks
Chairperson: Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
17:00 End of the Conference
Short Papers
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Wednesday 23rd October 2002
14:30 Parallel Session S1: Services and networks
Chairperson: Ramon Martí, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Service composition using the mobile agents approach
Sergio F. Castillo C., Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga,
Colombia
Juan Ramón Velasco P., Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dynamic Management of incoming flow in ATM Networks through the Integration
of
Mobile Agents with SNMP
André Ribeiro Cardoso, Taumaturgo Antônio Moura Oliveira, Michele Nogueira
Lima
Ana Luiza Bessa de Paula Barros Diniz, Joaquim Celestino Júnior,
State University of Ceará UECE, Fortaleza, CE ? Brazil
An Agent-based Architecture for Mobile Grid Users
Dario Bruneo, Antonio Puliato, Angelo Zaia, University di Messina, Italy
15:30 Parallel Session S2: Applications
Chairperson: Xavier Perramon, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
iGames: Implementation and Performance of a Gaming Service using Mobile
agents
Fiorenzo Gamba, Jean-Frederic Wagen,
University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland
Personal Privacy Agent Services
Leonid Titkov, Stefan Poslad, Juan Jim Tan,
Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary University of London, UK
AAANTS ? Distributed Mobile Component Architecture for a Synthetic Ecosystem
R.A. Chaminda Ranasinghe, Ajith P. Madurapperuma, University of Colombo, Sri
Lanka
16:30 Coffee Break
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Committees
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General Chair: Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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Program Co-Chairs:
- Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Thomas Magedanz, IKV++ Technologies AG, TU Berlin, Germany
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Tutorials Chair: Isabel Gallego, Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya,Barcelona, Spain
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Publicity Chair: Rosa Gil, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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Local Arrangements Co-chairs:
- Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Josep Polo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch,
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area
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Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski
Department of Computer Science, University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand
ph. +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772 email: krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569 URL: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys
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