Keynote Presentation

Abstract

Recently we observe a surge in new technologies that are expected to change the way we process information and support workers in an
organization. Two of them that are very often mentioned as “disruptive technologies” are: ontologies and software agents. In our recent project we attempt at conceptualizing the way in which these two technologies can be combined and utilized in information management within an organization. In the proposed approach a virtual organization is conceptualized in terms of roles to be played by agents, organization structure and information flow are represented in terms of agent-agent and agent-human interactions, while all resources (e.g. workers, brake pads, books, software artifacts, etc.) are ontologically demarcated. Finally, all information processing is semantically-driven. In the presentation current stated of our work will be summarized.

BIO

Marcin Paprzycki (Senior Member of the IEEE and Senior Fulbright Lecturer) has received his M.S. Degree in 1986 from Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznań, Poland and his Ph.D. in 1990 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. His initial research interests
were in high performance computing and parallel computing, high performance linear algebra in particular. Over time they evolved toward distributed systems and Internet-based computing; in particular, agent systems. He has published more than 200 research papers and was invited to Program Committees of over 250 international conferences. He is on editorial boards of 9 journals and a book series.

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