[Cfp] [forwarded] CFP: CIA-2000 Cooperative Information Agents

Forwarded message from [klusch@dfki.de (Matthias Klusch)] sent originally on Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:45:49 +0100: : Please take our apologies if you receive this message multiple times since : it has been posted to different relevant mailing lists. : : SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS : : ********************************************* : : Fourth International Workshop CIA-2000 on : : COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS : : July 7 - 9, 2000 : Boston, USA : : ********************************************* : : http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2000.html : : This workshop is co-sponsored by : : - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA. : - Swiss Life AG, Switzerland. : - IFMAS International Foundation for Multiagent Systems. : : It is co-located with the ICMAS-2000 conference. : : IMPORTANT DATES : =============== : : Deadline for Paper Submission: JANUARY 24, 2000 : : Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March 10, 2000 : Deadline for Camera-Ready Paper: March 27, 2000 : : WORKSHOP THEME : ============== : : Information agent technology is one of the major key : technologies for the Internet and worldwide Web. It emerged as a : response to the challenges of the cyberspace from both, the : technological and human user perspective. : An information agent is a computational software entity that has : access to one or multiple, heterogeneous and distributed information : sources, pro-actively searches for and maintains relevant information : on behalf of users or other agents preferably just-in-time. : In other words, it is managing and overcoming the difficulties associated : with information overload. : Although low-level infrastructure has been developed to support : interoperability between heterogeneous databases and application programs, : this is not sufficient when dealing with higher-level object organizations : such as vertical business object frameworks and workflows. Existing : multi-database or federated database systems do not even support any : kind of pro-active information discovery. : One key challenge of advanced information systems is to balance the : autonomy of databases and legacy systems with the potential payoff of : leveraging them by the use of information agents to perform collaborative : work. : Development of information agents requires expertise from different : research disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), : advanced databases and knowledge base systems, distributed information : systems, information retrieval, and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). : : Like in the previous CIA workshops, all hot topics in the research area : of intelligent and collaborating information agents are covered by : the CIA-2000 workshop. : : TOPICS : ====== : : Topics are but not limited to: : : * SYSTEMS and Applications of Information Agents : : - Architectures, prototypes and fielded systems of collaborating information agents : for information discovery and management in the Internet and Web. : - Issues of Programming Collaborative Information Agents for the Internet. : : * ADAPTATION and Learning Applied to Information Agents : : - Advanced methods for single and multiagent system learning. : - Performance, relationship and application of multiagent learning : for collaborating information agents. : - Self-emerging collaboration among information agents. : - Computation and action under limited resources. : - Methods for automated uncertain reasoning for knowledge based : information agents. : - Distributed, adaptive Information Retrieval : : * MOBILE Information Agents and Issues of Security in the Internet : : - Applications of cooperating mobile information agents in wearable : computers, hand-held and/or satellite-based control devices : (WAP-compliant Web handies, communicators, etc.). : - Architectures, environments and languages for mobile and secure : performance of information agents and servers. : : * RATIONAL Information Agents and Electronic Commerce : : - Virtual Agent-Based Marketplaces, Coalition Formation, Auctions. : - Electronic Commerce with incomplete and uncertain informations. : - Economic Models of cooperative problem solving among rational information : agents in open information environments. : - Standards for privacy of communication, security, and jurisdiction for : agent-mediated deals. : : * Advanced Database, Information System and Knowledge-Base Technology : : - Application of techniques for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in : open, distributed and dynamically changing environments. : - Management of uncertain and incomplete knowledge for information : gathering on the Internet or large corporate Intranets. : : * Construction and Reuse of Ontologies for Multiagent Information Gathering : : * Human-Agent Interaction and Intelligent User Interfaces for Information Agents : : - Synthetic agents, believable avatars, and 3-D multimedia-based : representation of user information spaces in the Internet. : - Models and implementation of advanced interfaces for conversation and : dialogue among information Agents and Users. : - Dynamic inspection of information agents' work by the user. : : PROCEEDINGS : =========== : : The workshop proceedings including all accepted papers will be published : by Springer as a volume in the LNAI series (Lecture Notes in : Artificial Intelligence). : The proceedings of the CIA-97, CIA-98, CIA-99 workshops appeared as : LNAI Vol. 1202, 1435 and 1652 respectively. : : PREPARATION & SUBMISSION OF PAPERS : ================================== : : The length of each paper should not exceed 12 pages. : All papers must be written in English. Submissions will be refereed for quality, : correctness, originality and relevance. Papers accepted or under review by other : conferences, workshops or journals are not acceptable. Papers not conforming to : the above requirements may be rejected without review. : : For preparation of camera-ready papers to be submitted please follow the instructions : for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page: : http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html : : For those not using the Springer LNCS style files: The paper must be formatted : in A4 size using 10 point Times. (If Times is not available, please use one of the similar : typefaces widely used in phototypesetting.) Printing area should be 12.2 x 19.3 cm, : and the interline distance should be arranged in such a way that some 42 to 45 lines : occur on a full-text page. : : Each submission includes the full paper (title, authors, abstract, text), : and in addition a separate title page with the title, a 300-400 word abstract, : a list of keywords, authors (names, addresses, email addresses, telephone and fax numbers). : You may submit your paper by Electronic Mail or Postal Mail. : : + Submission by E-Mail: : Please send your contribution in postscript format (preferably in A4) printable, : as compressed file to: : : klusch@dfki.de : : + Submission by Postal Mail: : Please send 4 hard-copies of your contribution to the following address. : (please do not tack the pages together.) : : Dr. Matthias Klusch : DFKI GmbH : Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 : 66123 Saarbruecken : Germany : : ORGANIZATION : ============ : : General Chair: Matthias Klusch (DFKI GmbH, Germany) : : Co-Chairs: Larry Kerschberg (George Mason University, USA) : Mike Papazoglou (University of Tilburg, The Netherlands) : Onn Shehory (IBM Research, Israel) : : Programme Committee: : : Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena, Italy) : Cristiano Castelfranchi (NRC Rome, Italy) : Paul Davidsson (University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden) : Frank Dignum (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands) : Tim Finin (University of Maryland, USA) : Klaus Fischer (DFKI GmbH, Germany) : Chihab Hanachi (University of Toulouse, France) : Mike Huhns (University of South Carolina, USA) : Vipul Kashyap (Telcordia Technologies Inc., USA) : Jeffrey Kephart (IBM Research, USA) : David Kinny (University of Melbourne, Australia) : Yasuhiko Kitamura (Osaka University, Japan) : Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) : Zakaria Maamar (National Defence Department DREV, Canada) : Sascha Ossowski (Rey Juan Carlos University, ESCET, Spain) : Aris Ouksel (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) : Paolo Petta (AAII Vienna, Austria) : Ulrich Reimer (Swiss Life AG, Switzerland) : Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel) : Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA) : Carles Sierra (IIIA CSIC Barcelona, Spain) : Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) : Jan Treur (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) : Christian Tschudin (Uppsala University, Sweden) : Jose Vidal (University of South Carolina, USA) : Gerhard Weiss (TU Munich, Germany) : Mike Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK) : Jian Yang (CSIRO, Australia) : : --------------- : CONTACT : : For more information about the workshop please contact: : : Matthias Klusch : DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd. : Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 : 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany : Phone: +49-681-302-5297 : Fax: +49-681-302-2235 : EMail: klusch@dfki.de : URL: http://www.dfki.de/~klusch

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