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Announcing the PAAM97  Call for Papers and Participation

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PAAM97 - The Second International Conference and Exhibition on
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The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology
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Monday 21st April - Wednesday 23rd April 1997, London, UK

The Commercial Value of Agents:- An Exploration Through Practical Applications

Following the success of last years conference we are pleased to announce
PAAM97 - The Second International Conference and Exhibition on the
Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and MultiAgents.

PAAM96 had over 350 delegates attending the conference. Sponsors included
CompulogNet, British Telecom, PrologIA, Rank Xerox, BMC Software, LPA,
Fulcrum Technologies, ILOG, IF Computers and Siemens Nixdorf.  This year's
conference should establish the PAAM series as the international forum for
information exchange on practical agents.

PAAM97 will include plenary sessions, a multi-track conference,
introductory and advanced tutorials, round-table discussions, and a full
industrial exhibition. The event will provide unrivalled insights into
leading-edge applications, systems, development tools, and techniques.

PAAM97 will showcase powerful industrial and commercial applications of
agent-based software, and include presentations from leading international
companies which are successfully introducing this key technology.



Call for Participation

Multi-agent technology is providing increasing benefit to business and
industry. PAAM97 will deal with  key issues. How is agent technology
overcoming todays business problems? What developments can we expect to see
in the future? What are the tangible benefits and rewards of investment in
agents?  What  opportunities can agents create and where are the potential
pitfalls?

PAAM will form part of a five day Practical Application Expo which will
also include PAP97-The Practical Application of Prolog, PACT97-The
Practical Application of Constraint Technology and the introduction of a
new conference PADD97-The Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining.

For further information on PAAM and PA EXPO97 please visit our Web site:

http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/TPAC

You are invited to register your interest for PAAM97 by completing the
reply form below.

Call for Papers

We invite you to submit a paper or industrial report describing fielded
applications which exploit agent technology. Papers can be of any length,
and on virtually any agent related topic, which might include, but are not
limited to the following:

Personal agents for:
Email
PDA's
Finding & retrieving information / WWW
Scheduling/diary management
Mobility management

Business/service agents for:
Workflow management
Network Management and control
Buying & selling services
Information Management, Retrieval & Understanding
Information Customisation
WWW and Internet
Negotiation
Price Discovery
Information Arbitrage
Manufacturing Planning & Control

Tools and Techniques
Process Control
Traffic Control
Process Re-engineering
Languages for developing agent systems
Coordination standards
Standards for information transfer
Identity Management
Monetary Instrument Standards


Since PAAM97 focuses on the real-world benefits of agent technology,
preference will be given to papers describing fielded applications,
especially in the business arena. Also of interest are descriptions of
advanced prototypes, tools and techniques, and general survey papers which
indicate the future direction this important technology will take.

Dates:
        Submission Deadline:  November 8th, 1996
        Notification:         January 10th, 1997
        Final Papers due:     February 14th, 1997

Submission Details

Five copies of papers written in English, should be received by the
conference organiser, at the address below, on or before November 8th,
1996.
Please include a short abstract, and covering page containing full contact
details and e-mail address. Authors of successful submissions will be
contacted by 10th January 1997.  Accepted papers (in a camera-ready format)
will be due by February 14th, 1997.  Accepted papers will be published in
the PAAM97 proceedings.

Papers should be sent to the following address

PAAM 97
54 Knowle Avenue
Blackpool
Lancs   FY2 9UD
UK


Call for Demonstrations, Workshops and Tutorials

The conference also provides an opportunity for software vendors and
developers to demonstrate Agent systems. You are invited to contact the
organiser to arrange for your application to be exhibited at the event. If
you would like to organise a workshop or tutorial, or wish to see a
particular topic covered, please contact us.

Programme Committee

The PAAM97 Programme Committee comprises a number of highly influential
figures who are recognised experts in the field of agent technology.
Chaired by Barry Crabtree of British Telecom, this programme committee is
drawn from industry leaders and first class universities and research
organisations.

Jeffrey Bradshaw     Boeing, USA
Stephan Brunessaux  Matra Cap Systemes, France
Paolo Ciancarini        University of Bologna, Italy
Barry Crabtree        BT Laboratories, UK
Peter Edwards          University of Aberdeen, UK
Tim Finin                  University of Maryland, USA
Mark Fox                  University of Toronto, Canada
Benjamin Grosof     IBM, USA
Seif Haridi                SICS, Sweden
Fumio Hattori           NTT, Japan
Mike Huhns               MCC, USA
Toru Ishida              Kyoto University, Japan
Nick Jennings          University of London,  UK
Paul Kearney            Sharp Laboratories, UK
Victor Lesser          University of Massachusetts, USA
Pattie Maes            MIT Media Lab, USA
Cindy Mason            University of California, Berkeley, USA
Mark Middleton        Mitsubishi, UK
Hyacinth Nwana      BT Laboratories, UK
Remo Pareschi        Rank Xerox, France
Barney Pell             NASA, USA
Brad Perry              Hughes Research Laboratories, USA
Tony Rutkowski      General Magic, USA
Joerg Siekmann      DFKI, Germany
Robert Simpson      NCR, USA
Donald Steiner        Siemens AG, Germany
Leon Sterling           University of Melbourne, Australia
Kurt Sundermeyer   Daimler Benz, Germany
Katia Sycara          CMU, USA
Hiroyuki Tarumi      NEC, Japan
Peter Wayner         Newray Inc, USA

Organisation

The Conference is organised by The Practical Application Company. The
Sponsorship and Exhibition Coordinator is Clive Spenser, PMG Treasurer, and
Marketing Director of Logic Programming Associates.

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