THE APPLICATION OF INTELLIGENT AGENTS TO A WEB BASED SCIENTIFIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

A. Min Tjoa
Director of the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems
Vienna University of Technology
Austria

Abstract
Agent technology promises to increase the flexibility and power of distributed management systems and services. This paper describes the suggested work that is aiming to understand the practical implication and benefits of applying agent technology to the management of distributed project and resources using Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) as the underlying messaging service provider. The SWP (Scientific WorkPlace) is a tool planned to manage distributed resources and projects on web. Agents play a central role in enhancing flexibility, user friendliness and productivity both for the end users and top managers. Agents support the finding of resources and provide solutions for managing tasks.

Biography
A Min Tjoa (tjoa@tuwien.ac.at) is Full Professor at Vienna University of Technology where he is the director of the Institute of Software Technology & Interactive Systems and the Dean of Academic Affairs. His research interests include information modelling, database and information systems, software engineering, and electronic commerce / web-oriented systems. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering in 1979 and his M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1975 from University of Linz, Austria. He currently is the President of the Austrian Computer Society and the director of the Austrian Inter-University Institute of IT for Blind and Visually Handicapped People. He is one of the four director board members of the Austrian Competence Center for Electronic Commerce (EC3). He is member of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, GI (German Society of Computer Science), IFIP TC2 (Software Theory and Practice), IFIP WG 8.4 (Office Information Systems) and IFIP WG 13.2 (User Centered System Design). He served as a program chairman and general chairman of numerous conferences including IEEE ICDCS, ESEC, ACM SIGSOFT, EC-Web, DaWaK, EURASIA-ICT, etc., and has been a reviewer for IEEE TKDE, ACM TODS, DKE, and Information Systems. He has been the author/editor of 15 books and more than 150 peer-reviewed articles.