Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:08:16 +0200
From: Sascha Ossowski <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
EXTENDED Paper Submission DEADLINE
>>> APRIL 24, 2002 <<<
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Sixth International Workshop CIA-2002 on
Cooperative Information Agents
September 18 - 20, 2002
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain
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http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2002.html
This workshop is
in co-operation with ACM SIGCOMM
co-sponsored by
- Swiss Life AG, IT Research and Development, Switzerland
- IBM Research Center, Israel
- Elsevier Science, The Netherlands
- Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland
- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence
- AgentLink II European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing
- AutoDesk Inc., USA
- GMU E-Center of Excellence in Research and Education for E-Business, USA
and supported by
- INRIA French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and
Control
CIA 2002 is co-located with the ESAW 2002 workshop.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Extended Deadline for Paper Submission: *** April 24, 2002 ***
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: June 3, 2002
Deadline for Camera-Ready Paper: June 24, 2002
INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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* Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile)
Advanced Information Retrieval for Intelligent Agents Searching the
Internet and Web
* Kenji Mase (ATR Media Information Science Lab, Kyoto, Japan)
Intelligent Interfaces for Information Agents: Systems, Experiences,
Future Challenges
* Carles Sierra and Pablo Noriega (Spanish AI Research Institute,
Barcelona, Spain)
Agents and E-Institutions: Future Trends and Challenges
CIA WORKSHOP AWARDS
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The CIA 2002 workshop issues both
CIA 2002 Best Paper Award (sponsored by Elsevier Science,
Netherlands)
CIA 2002 System Innovation Award (sponsored by Spanish Association
for Artificial Intelligence)
to acknowledge highly innovative research and development,
respectively, in the area of intelligent information agents.
Further information are at http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2002awards.html.
WORKSHOP THEME & TOPICS
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Information agent technology is one of the major key technologies
for the Internet and worldwide Web. 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 in the open and exponentially growing Internet and Web.
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 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.
Developing information agents requires expertise from different
research disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), advanced
databases and knowledge base systems, distributed information systems,
adaptive 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-2002 workshop.
Topics are (but not limited to)
* Systems and Applications of Information Agents
Architectures, prototypes and fielded systems of information
agents.
Issues of programming information agents.
* Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery and the Semantic Web.
Application of techniques of knowledge discovery for information
agents
acting in open, distributed and dynamically changing environments.
Information agents for the Semantic Web (thorough technology
surveys,
applications)
Agent-based distributed knowledge discovery in wide-area networks.
* Mobile Information Agents
Applications of mobile information agents: Prototypes,
experiments,
studies, and experiences.
Architectures, environments and languages for mobile and secure
performance of information agents.
* Information Agents and Ubiquitous Computing
Collaborating information agents in/for wearable computers,
hand-held and/or satellite-based control devices:
Applications, survey, and vision.
* Rational Information Agents for Electronic Commerce
Models of economic rationality and trust for e-commerce.
Privacy of communication, security, and jurisdiction for
agent-mediated trading.
* Intelligent Interfaces for Information Agents
Life-like characters and avatars.
Information agents for digital cities.
Advanced, personalized 3-d visualizations of information spaces.
* Adaptive Information Agents
Adaptive information retrieval.
Advanced user-profiling for collaborative information agents.
Self-organizing information agents.
Reasoning on uncertain and vague information
by resource-bounded information agents.
Proceedings
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The proceedings of the CIA workshop series are published as volumes in the
Springer series of Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence
(CIA-97: LNAI 1202, CIA-98: LNAI 1435, CIA-99: LNAI 1652,
CIA-2000: LNAI 1860, CIA-2001: 2182).
The proceedings of the workshop will be available at the workshop.
Preparation & Submission of Papers
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The length of each paper should not exceed 15 pages.
All papers must be written in English. Submissions will be reviewed
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 fonts 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)
either in postscript or PDF format.
Please use A4 size when creating the postscript/pdf version of your paper.
You may submit your paper either via Electronic or Postal Mail.
* Submission by E-Mail:
Please send your contribution as compressed (zipped) file
to [log in to unmask]
* Submission by Postal Mail:
Please send 3 hard copies (untacked pages) of your contribution to the
following address:
Dr. Matthias Klusch
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbruecken
Germany
Organisation
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General Chair
Matthias Klusch (DFKI GmbH, Germany)
Co-Chairs
Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Onn Shehory (IBM Research Center Haifa, Israel)
Programme Committee
Wolfgang Benn (TU Chemnitz, Germany)
Federico Bergenti (University of Parma, Italy)
Sonia Bergamaschi (Universita of Modena, Italy)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (NRC Rome, Italy)
Brahim Chaib-draa (Laval University, Canada)
Rose Dieng (INRIA, France)
Frank Dignum (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Tim Finin (University of Maryland at Baltimore, USA)
Mike Huhns (University of South Carolina, USA)
Toru Ishida (University of Kyoto, Japan)
Catholijn Jonker (Free University of Amsterdam,
Netherlands)
Larry Kerschberg (George Mason University, USA)
Yasuhiko Kitamura (Osaka City University, Japan)
Sarit Kraus (University of Maryland, USA)
Daniel Kudenko (University of York, UK)
Victor Lesser (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Mike Luck (University of Southampton, UK)
Pablo Noriega (CSIC, Spain)
Werner Nutt (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK)
Eugenio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal)
Lin Padgham (RMIT, Australia)
Ana Paiva (TU Lisbon, Portugal)
Michal Pechoucek (TU Prague, Czech Republic)
Paolo Petta (Austrian Research Institute for AI,
Austria)
Alun Preece (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Omer F. Rana (University of Wales, UK)
Ulrich Reimer (Swiss Life AG, Switzerland)
Volker Roth (Fraunhofer IGD, Germany)
Heiko Schuldt (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)
Amit Sheth (University of Georgia, USA)
Carles Sierra (CSIC AI Research Lab, Spain)
Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University, USA)
Von-Wun Soo (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Robert Tolksdorf (TU Berlin, Germany)
Steven Willmott (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland)
Mike Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)
Makoto Yokoo (NTT Communication Science Lab, Japan)
Eric Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena, Italy)
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
