Originally from: Mathias Petsch <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Extended Deadline Agents 2000 WS: Intelligent Agents / CSCW
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:10:16 +0100
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INTELLIGENT AGENTS FOR COMPUTER SUPPORTED CO-OPERATIVE WORK:
TECHNOLOGY AND RISKS
Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents
June, 3 - 7, 2000, Barcelona, Spain
(http://www.wirtschaft.tu-ilmenau.de/wi/wi2/agents00-cscw-agents)
Last Call For Papers
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Deadlines:
March 17th: Submission of Papers
March 29th: Extended deadline for Submissions of Papers
April 3rd: Notification of Acceptance
April 10th: Submission of Camera Ready Copy
June 3-4th: Workshop at Agents 2000
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INTRODUCTION:
The increasing use of networking, coupled with an increasing
distribution in the
operations of organisations, results in increasing problems of
administration,
management and control of information and co-ordination of work. With
the aim of
providing solution to such problems, research into Computer Supported
Co-operative Work (CSCW) is concerned with investigating approaches and
technologies for the support of group work, both within and among
organisations,
in which the group members may be distributed geographically.
In parallel with the advances made in CSCW in recent years there have
been
interesting developments in the fields of Intelligent Agents and
Distributed
Artificial Intelligence (DAI), notably in the concepts, theories and
deployment
of intelligent agents as a means of distributing computer-based problem
solving
expertise. The concept of intelligent agents has given rise to an
exciting new
technology of wide potential applicability. In particular, the paradigm
of
multi-agent systems, which is also a focus of interest for researchers
in
distributed artificial intelligence, forms a good basis for
(i) the design of CSCW architectures, and
(ii) the support of CSCW operations.
The application of a multi-agent approach to CSCW can help to make
information
exchange among the participants easier, provide support to the
participants
(e.g. in the form of Decision Support Systems), assist workflows and
procedures,
and represent the user in a CSCW system.
But, the introduction of intelligent agents into CSCW systems as well as
into
legacy information systems leads to potential new risks, e.g.
unauthorised
information gain, unauthorised modification of information, unauthorised
derogation of functionality, or inadmissible loss of connection.
Endowing agents
with intelligence increases the risks and threats, compared with
conventional
communications and information systems.
SUBMISSION:
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- user agents in CSCW systems
- DAI architectures and CSCW systems,
- security aspects of agent-based CSCW systems,
- intelligent agents in CSCW (e.g. for decision support,
coordination, automation)
- applications of agent-based/mediated CSCW
Contributions to the workshop should not exceed 8 pages in length and
should be
emailed (electronic version) or posted (paper version, 5 copies) to one
of the
contact persons below.
Final versions must conform to the ACM format. Formatting instructions
can be
found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. In
addition,
we will invite authors of selected papers to submit an extended versions
of
their paper for a subsequent publication in a special issue of an
international
journal.
WORKSHOP ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
N. Abchiche University of Paris (invited)
Ch. Branki University of Paisley
K. Zreik University of Caen (invited)
S. Kirn Technical University of Ilmenau
R. Kowalczyk CSIRO, Melbourne
H. Lecorre France Telekom (invited)
B. Lees University of Paisley
J. Newman Glasgow Caledonian University
M. Petsch Technical University of Ilmenau
D. Riaņo University of Tarragona
H. Tian Tongji University, Shanghai
S. Uellner Deutsche Telekom, Research, Darmstadt (invited)
R. Unland University of Essen
CONTACT PERSONS:
Mathias Petsch
PF 100 565, Ilmenau, 98764
Germany
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: + 49 3677 694056
Fax: + 49 3677 69 4219
Brian Lees
Department of Computing & Information Systems, University of Paisley
Paisley PA1
2BE, Scotland U.K.
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: + 44 141 848 3311
Fax: + 44 141 848 3542
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Workshop WWW site
http://www.wirtschaft.tuilmenau.de/wi/wi2/agents00-cscw-agents/
Conference WWW site http://www.iiia.csic.es/agents2000
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