MATA'02

Subject: MATA'02
From: Rosa Maria Gil Iranzo (rosa.gil@TECN.UPF.ES)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 13:03:55 MET DST

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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/

======================================================

First Announcement and Call for Participation

======================================================

Scope
=========
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.

Draft Technical Program
=======================

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
_________________________

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
___________________________

8:30 Registration

9:00 Opening Remarks: Speakers to be announced

9:30 Keynote: Topic and speaker to be announced

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, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Isabel Gallego, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

12:00 Session 2: Mobile Agent Framework for Telecommunication Services
Chairperson: Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Web Agent Programming Model
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: 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 Sheurer, Suisscom Corporate Technology, Switzerland

An Enhanced Mobility Management Mechanism for Active Access Networks
Insu Kim , Keecheon Kim, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
Hyukjoon Lee, Kwangwoon University, Korea
 
Architecture for Active Network Performance Management Based on Intelligent Agents
Antonio Barba, Ernesto Sánchez, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain

15:30 Session 4: 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
 
16:30 Coffee Break

17:00 Session 5: Distributed Monitoring and Network Management
Chairperson: Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, 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
__________________________

8:30 Registration
 
9:00 Keynote: Topic and speaker to be announced

9:45 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

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: Roch Glitho, Ericsson Research Canada

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
 
17:00 End of the Conference

Short Papers
____________
 
Wednesday 23rd October 2002
 

14:30 Parallel Session S1: Services and networks
 
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
 
Fipa-MOB: a Mobile Agent Platform for Optical Networks Management
Olivier Buechel, Sergio Maffioletti and Beat Hirsbrunner,
DIUF -University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
 
 
15:30 Parallel Session S2: Applications
 
iGames: Implementation and Performance of a Gaming Service using Mobile agents
Fiorenzo Gamba, Jean-Frederic Wagen,
University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland
 
An Agent-based Architecture for Mobile Grid Users
Dario Bruneo, Antonio Puliato, Angelo Zaia, University di Messina, Italy
 
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

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Committees
==========

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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Tutorial Chair: Isabel Gallego, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,Barcelona, Spain
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Publicity Chair: Rosa Gil, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
----------------------
Local Arrangements Co-chairs:
   - Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
  - Josep Polo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
----------------------

======================================================
                  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/
 
======================================================
 
First Announcement and Call for Participation
 
======================================================
 
Scope
=========
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.
 

Draft Technical Program
=======================
 
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
_________________________
 
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
___________________________
 
8:30 Registration
 
9:00 Opening Remarks: Speakers to be announced
 
9:30 Keynote: Topic and speaker to be announced
 
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, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Isabel Gallego, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
 
12:00 Session 2:  Mobile Agent Framework for Telecommunication Services
Chairperson:  Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
 
Web Agent Programming Model
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:  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 Sheurer, Suisscom Corporate Technology, Switzerland
 
An Enhanced Mobility Management Mechanism for Active Access Networks
Insu Kim , Keecheon Kim, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
Hyukjoon Lee, Kwangwoon University, Korea
 
Architecture for Active Network Performance Management Based on Intelligent Agents
Antonio Barba, Ernesto Sánchez, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain
 
15:30 Session 4: 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
 
16:30 Coffee Break
 
17:00 Session 5: Distributed Monitoring and Network Management
Chairperson:  Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, 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
__________________________
 
8:30 Registration
 
9:00 Keynote: Topic and speaker to be announced
 
9:45 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
 
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:  Roch Glitho, Ericsson Research Canada
 
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
 
17:00   End of the Conference
 

Short Papers
____________
 
Wednesday 23rd October 2002
 
 
14:30 Parallel Session S1:  Services and networks
 
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
 
Fipa-MOB: a Mobile Agent Platform for Optical Networks Management
Olivier Buechel, Sergio Maffioletti and Beat Hirsbrunner,
DIUF –University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
 
 
15:30 Parallel Session S2:  Applications
 
iGames: Implementation and Performance of a Gaming Service using Mobile agents 
Fiorenzo Gamba, Jean-Frederic Wagen,
University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland
 
An Agent-based Architecture for Mobile Grid Users
Dario Bruneo, Antonio Puliato, Angelo Zaia, University di Messina, Italy
 
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
 
 
 
==========
Committees
==========
 
General Chair:  Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
----------------------
 
Program Co-Chairs: 
  - Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
  - Thomas Magedanz, IKV++ Technologies AG, TU Berlin, Germany
----------------------
 
Tutorial Chair:  Isabel Gallego, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,Barcelona, Spain
----------------------
Publicity Chair:  Rosa Gil, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
----------------------
Local Arrangements Co-chairs:
   - Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
  - Josep Polo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
----------------------

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