Agent technology is one of the most promising tools to conduct business via the Internet and Intranets in an autonomous, intelligent, and efficient way. The goals of this session are to gather academic as well as industrial researchers to exchange new ideas and experiences, to initialize new connections toward future cooperation or to strengthen existing collaborations.

We welcome papers on architectures, protocols, algorithms, design, evaluation (performance, QoS, security), and implementation techniques for agent-based systems. Technical issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

You are invited to submit papers to session chair (contact address is given below) by March 5. E-mail submission is preferred and PLEASE zip your file before submitting. The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 pages. Please include: paper title, your names, affiliation, address, E-mail, telephone and fax number and a maximum of 5 keywords in the first page of your paper.

Accepted papers will be published in the (IC-2001) INTERNET COMPUTING Conference Proceeding by CSREA Press (ISBN) in hard copy. The proceedings will be available at the conference site. In addition to the hard copy, it is also planned to publish the papers on a CD. Selected accepted papers will be considered for journal publication.

It is anticipated that this international event will attract about 1500 participants. This Multi-Conference event is composed of six (planned and more will likely be added) international conferences that will be held simultaneously (same dates and location). The six conferences are:

• The 2001 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)
• The 2001 International Conference on Internet Computing 2001 (IC'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)
• The 2001 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)
• The 2001 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)
• The 2001 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)
• The First International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'01: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001)