SIGABIS Mini-track at: AMCIS Americas Conference on Information Systems 2003, August 4-6, Tampa, Florida, USA www.amcis2003.org Conference Topic: "Navigating the Torrents of Technology" Mini-track Theme: "Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems"

SIGABIS is proud to support a mini-track on agent-based information systems at AMCIS 2003, which is chaired by Vijay Sugumaran (Oakland University, Rochester, MI; sugumara@oakland.edu) and Stefan Kirn (University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany; Stefan.Kirn@iw-thueringen.de). Vijayan and Stefan are organizing this event for the third time.

The best submissions to the mini-track will be considered for our first "SIGABIS Best Paper Award" competition as well as a for possible publication in a Special Issue on "Agent-Based IS" in an international IS journal.

Mini-track Schedule

Day 2 - Tuesday, August 5
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Room: Room 5

"eAgents: An Approach for Modeling and Simulating Multi-Agent Systems," N. C. Narendra, Hewlett-Packard India Software Operations Ltd (2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Room: Room 5)

"Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Collaborative Social Networks," Madey, G. R., Y. Gao, R. Tynan, C. Hoffman, all University of Notre Dame, and V. Freeh, North Carolina State University (2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Room: Room 5)

"Hayek's Catallaxy: A Forward-Looking Concept for Information Systems?" Eymann T., S. Sackmann, G. Müller, I. Pippow, all Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany (2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Room: Room 5)

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Room: Salon C

"Integration of Web Services for Establishing Virtual Enterprises: An Agent-Based Perspective," Maamar Z., Zayed University, and Ghazi Alkhatib, Qatar College of Technology

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Room: Room 5

"The GRITICKA Ontology for Modeling Multiagent-Based Integrative Business Information Systems," Zhang H., Southwest Missouri State University, R. Kishore, R. Ramesh, R. Sharman, all State University of New York at Buffalo

"The Design of Intelligent Agent Supported Exception Management in Securities Trading," Wang M., H. Wang, K. K. Wan, D. Xu, all City University of Hong Kong

"Using Agents and XML for Knowledge Representation and Exchange: An Intelligent Distributed Decision Support Architecture (IDDSA)," Singh R., A. F. Salam, L. S. Iyer, all University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Day 3 - Wednesday, August 6
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM, Room: Room 5

"ADAPT: Adaptive Multi-Agent Process Planning and Coordination of Clinical Trials," Heine C., M. Petsch, C. Anhalt, all Technische Universität Ilmenau, and R. Herrler, Universität Würzburg

"Building Business Heuristics with Data-Mining Internet Agents," Walczak S., and D. G. Gregg, all University of Colorado, Denver

"PAMAS: Agent-Based Supply Chain Event Management System," Zimmermann R., University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and A. Paschke, Technical University of Munich

"Pool-Based Heterogeneous Mobile Agents for Network Management," Taneja N., InfoVision Consultants Inc., and A. Taneja, University of Texas at Arlington

All conference papers are available for download at:
http://aisel.isworld.org/proceedings/amcis/2003/track.asp?track_id=204.

(Created by: csl, 03/06/03; last updated by: csl, 08/05/03)