CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC, by Inderscience Publishers)
Special Issue on Mobile Systems, E-commerce and Agent Technology

http://member.mine.tku.edu.tw/www/jhung/MSEAT/IJWMC.htm

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GUEST EDITORS

Dr. Jason C. Hung
Department of Information Management, Kuang Wu Institute of Technology, Taiwan
E-mail: jhung@cs.tku.edu.tw

Dr. Kuei-Ping Shih
Dept. Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Taiwan
E-mail: kpshih@mail.tku.edu.tw
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THEME
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Agent technology is one of the most vibrant and active areas of research and development 
in information technology. Multi-agents and mobile agent technologies are making significant 
impacts upon almost all aspects of computing discipline. Boldly speaking, they are 
underpinning the profound changes taking place in our information society. One of the 
admittedly most successful applications is in global business partnerships, directly due 
to the nature of the problem. In fact, virtual organizations and e-commerce have become 
fashionable practices of today's global businesses. At the right time, agents act as key 
components in the Internet-wide information and e-commerce systems that are currently being 
developed across the globe, and multi-agents and mobile agents provide most feasible and 
effective computational frameworks for contemporary business practices. In answer to such 
a trend at the beginning of this exciting new millennium, The special issue aims at 
establishing a responsive, active and valuable world-class academic forum for executives, 
managers, practitioners and academicians from multi-agents, mobile agents, software agents, 
mobile environment, virtual organizations and e-commerce, in particular their crisscrosses.


SCOPE 
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This special issue covers some important aspects of Mobile Systems, E-Commerce and 
Agent Technologies. The technical issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

* Agents: 
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o agent architectures 
o information agents 
o middle agents (e.g., match-makers, brokers, routers) 
o mobile agents 
o network agents 
o privacy and agents 
o standards 
o user modeling 
 

* Multi-Agents 
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o agent-based software engineering 
o agent platform 
o agent social communication mechanisms and languages 
o agent societies and ensembles 
o communication, collaboration and interaction of humans and agents 
o economics principles for multi-agents 
o fault tolerance 
o multi-agent communication, coordination, and collaboration
o multi-agent design patterns and paradigms
o multi-agent simulation, verification, and validation 
o organization of agent societies


* Mobile Systems and E-Commerce 
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o applications in active networks 
o protocol, applications, and middleware in mobile server
o applications in electronic markets and commerce
o mobile commerce
o artificial market systems and e-commerce 
o e-commerce animation, simulation 
o e-commerce development tools, programming 
o e-commerce interface, virtual reality 
o e-commerce interface agents 
o e-commerce security 
o ergonomics in e-commerce and electronic marketplaces 
o market-based control 
o mobile agents for order processing, selling, transactions processing
o mobile agents for payment, financial processing
o resource management 
o security analysis, model and implementation on both clients and hosts of e-commerce 
o world wide web integration 
 

* Wireless Networks
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o ad hoc networking
o mobile computing
o WLAN, Bluetooth, WPAN, home networking
o network protocols
o wireless sensor networks
o wireless QoS services
o PCS, GPRS, 3G
o location aware protocols and services


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
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The manuscript should be submitted via e-mail in PDF format to Dr. Jason C. Hung at
jhung@cs.tku.edu.tw by September 30, 2004. Submitted papers must not be previously 
published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts must be in English 
and should not exceed 5000 words. Submissions should include the title, author(s), 
author's affiliation, e-mail addresses, tel/fax numbers, postal address, and abstract 
on the first page. 


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IMPORTANT DATE

* Paper submission Due: September 30, 2004 
* Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2004 
* Revising and formatting: November 20, 2004 
* Camera-ready Manuscript Due: December 10, 2004