CALL FOR CHAPTERS

  Submission deadline March 31, 2001

  Intelligent Agent Software Engineering

  A book edited by
  Valentina Plekhanova and Stefan Wermter,
  University of Sunderland, United Kingdom

  Intelligent software agents are a unique generation of
  information society tools that independently perform various
  tasks on behalf of human user(s) or other software agents.
  The new possibility of information society requires the
  development of new more intelligent methods, tools and
  theories for modelling/engineering of agent-based systems
  and technologies. This directly involves a need for
  consideration, understanding and analysis of human factors,
  e.g. people's knowledge/skill, learning, and performance
  capabilities/compatibilities in particular software
  development environments. This is because software
  developers utilise their experience and represent their
  mental models via development/engineering of intelligent
  agent(s). Therefore, the study of interrelated factors such as
  people's and agent's capabilities constitute an
  important/critical area in intelligent agent software
  engineering.  This should eventually lead to more robust,
  intelligent, interactive, learning and adaptive agents.

  We encourage submitting papers where intelligent agent
  software engineering is considered as the application of the
  integration of formal methods and heuristic approaches to
  ensure support for the evaluation, comparison, analysis, and
  evolution of agent behaviour. The primary objective of the
  book is to introduce the readers to the concept of intelligent
  agent software engineering so that they will be able to
  develop their own agents and implement concepts in their
  own environments. Chapters based on research from both
  academia and industry are encouraged.

  Representative topics include, but are not limited to, the
  following:

Requirements for intelligent agent software engineering
  Intelligent agent modelling and management
  Integration problems in intelligent agent software engineering
  Intelligent planning/scheduling systems
  Prioritisation problems in intelligent agent software engineering
  Engineering models of intelligent agents
  Modelling, analysis, and management of learning agents
  Engineering the Information Technology
  Engineering the learning processes
  Hybrid neural agents
  Adaptive agents
  Learning agents
  Communicating agents
  Meta agent architectures
  Negotiating agents
  Emerging knowledge based on collaborating  software  agents
  Machine learning for intelligent agents
  Cognitively  oriented software agents
  Biologically motivated agent models
  Lifelong learning in software agents
  Robustness and noise in  software agents
  Machine learning for software engineering
  Evolutionary agents
  Neuroscience - inspired agents;
  Agents  based on soft computing

  SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
  Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or
  before March 31, 2001, a 2-5 page proposal outlining the
  mission of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted
  proposals will be notified by May 15, 2001 about the status of
  their proposals and sent chapter organisational guidelines.
  Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 15,
  2001. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group
  Publishing in 2002.

  Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically
  to:

  Valentina Plekhanova, Ph.D.and Stefan Wermter, Prof., PhD
  University of Sunderland,
  School of Computing, Engineering and Technology
  The Informatics Centre, St Peter's Campus, St Peter's Way
  Tel: +44 (0)-191-515-2755
  Fax: +44 (0)-191 -515-2781
  Email:      valentina.plekhanova@sunderland.ac.uk     and
                    stefan.wermter@sunderland.ac.uk