W12  First International Workshop on Web Agent Systems and Applications - WASA 2000

 

Workshop Organiser: Kamal Karlapalem, HKUST, China

Wednesday, September 6, 2000

14 00– 15.30   Session I: Agent Systems

 

An Agent Server for the Next Generation of Web Applications

H. Tai and G. Yamamoto

 

TRACE ¾ An Adaptive Organizational Policy for MAS

S. Fatima

 

Mobile Agent-Based Distributed Geographic Information Systems under
Internet Environment

J. Guan, S. Zhou, F. Bian, and A. Zhou

 

A Multi-Agent System Architecture for Information Gathering

E. Shakshuki, H. Ghenniwa, and M. Kamel

 

15.30 – 16.00  Coffee Break

 

16.00 – 17.10  Session II: Agent Information Retrieval

 

Technical Perspective on the Heterogeneous Databases Interoperability

J. Ashir

 

The Design and Application of Agent on Pattern Cooperative Design
Environment

C. Yang, X. Meng, B. Gong, C. Tu, and Z. Teng

 

Discovering Sequence Association Rules with User Access Transaction
Grammars

S. Wang, W. Gao, and J. Li

 

Thursday, September 7, 2000

 

9.30 – 10.30    Session III: Invited Talk

Frameworks for Integrating Web Agents and Databases

        Moira Norrie, ETH Zurich

 

10.30 – 11.00  Coffee Break

 

11.00 – 12.30  Session IV: Agent Technologies

 

A Taxonomy of Web Agents

Z. Huang, A. Eliëns, A. van Ballegooij, and P. de Bra

 

Services on the Net: An Agent Based Approach

G. Uma and T. Perraju

 

Agent-Oriented Concepts to Foster the Automation of E-Business

A. Bartelt and W. Lamersdorf

 

A Componentware for Distributed Agent Collaboration

T. Lee and K. Ng