Montreal Canada, May Preface & Conference Organization Scripting Mobile Agents to Support Cooperative Work in the 21st Century st Century 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A Distributed Agent Based System For Supporting Virtual Software Corporations Zsolt Haag, Richard Foley, and Julian Newman, Glasgow Caledonian University , UK A knowledge Production Protocol for Cooperative Development of Learning Objects Juan M. Dodero , Miguel A Sicilia, , Universided Carlos III de Madrid , Spain. and Elena Garcia-Barricanal , Universided de Alcala de Henares , Spain Agent-mediated Online Learning -AMOL Xun Yi, Chee Kheong Siew,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Mahbubur Rahman Syed, Minnesota State University , USA Facilitation of Online Student Group Projects with a Support Agent. Janice Whatley, Martin Beer, University of Salford, UK Geof Staniford, John Morres University , UK From Work Practice Models and Simulation to Implementation of Human-Centered Agent Systems Maarten Sierhuis , Ron van Hoof, William J. Clancey, and Mike Scott , NASA/Ames Research Center , USA Intelligent Agent Support in Engineering Design Brian Lees and Steve Gallagher, University of Paisley , UK Peer-to-Peer Adaptive Group Awareness Yiming Ye , Stephen Boies, Paul Huang , IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA John K Tsotsos, York University , Canada Seng Wai Loke, Arkady Zaslavsky, Brian Yap, Joseph Fonseka, Monash University , Australia Tempus Fugit and the Need for an e-Social Contract James Kaufman, Joann Ruvolo, and Daniel Ford, IBM Almaden Research Center , USA The possible Impact of the Behavioral Characteristics of an Agent in ASCW Performance Tracy Litzinger, Susan Vallance, John A. Wise, Embry-Riddle University , USA 2001 29 2001 -

• Agent support for distributed working • The influence of agents on the work environment • The role of agents in virtual work environments • Agent-assisted Web-based distributed awareness • Agent-assisted group-awareness • Agent-assisted collaborative editing • Agents and multi-agent systems in peer-to-peer computing The Autonomous Agents’01 Workshop on Agents Supported Cooperative Work (ASCW’01), held in Montreal, Canada May 29, 2001, is an effort to bring together researchers and practitioners, from industry and academia, to identify and explore issues, opportunities, and solutions for the new and exciting areas of ASCW. The accepted oral presentation papers show a certain aspect of the state of the art in ASCW.

We hope that you will share with us the intellectual excitement and interest in this emerging area of ASCW by reading the workshop proceedings.

May, 2001

Yiming Ye & Brian Lees, Co-Chair of ASCW’01

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

 Co-Chair: Dr. Brian Lees Dr. Yiming Ye Program Committee: University of Paisley, UK IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA FX Palo Alto Lab, USA

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Glasgow Caledonian University, UK ATR MIC Labs, Kyoto, Japan HongKong Baptist University, Hong Kong IBM Silicon Valley Lab, USA Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany Concordia University, Canada Cheltenham and Gloucester College of H.E.,

 University of Essen, German