(DBWORLD) CFP: CIA-98 Cooperative Information Agents

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Second Call for Papers


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Second International Workshop CIA-98


COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS -

Learning, Mobility, and Electronic Commerce
for Information Discovery in the Internet.

July 3 - 8, 1998

Cite de Sciences - La Vilette, Paris (France)

at the Agents' World Event 1998
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http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia98.html

The workshop is co-sponsored by

. Daimler-Benz AG Research, Stuttgart (Germany)

. Center for Information Systems Integration and Evolution
George Mason University, Fairfax (USA)

and supported by

. Special Interest Groups on
Database Systems,
Distributed Artificial Intelligence and
Information Retrieval
of the German Society for Computer Science (GI)

. Institute for Integrated Publications and Information Systems
of the German National Research Center (GMD)

INVITED SPEAKERS
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1 Tuomas Sandholm (Washington University, USA)
2 Robert Tolksdorf (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
3 Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
4 Sharma Chakravarthy (University of Florida, USA)
5 Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)
6 Michael Huhns & Munindar Singh
(University of South Carolina/North Carolina State University, USA)
7 Edmund Durfee (University of Michigan, USA)

SCOPE
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The research and application area of cooperative information agents
is of rapidly increasing importance. Information agents are computational
software systems that have access to multiple, heterogeneous and geographically
distributed information sources.
The autonomous agents have to face up to the increasing complexity of modern
information environments ranging from relatively simple in-house information
systems, through large-scale multidatabase systems, to the visionary Infosphere
in the Internet. One of the main tasks of the agents is an active search for
relevant information in non-local domains on behalf of their users or other
agents. This includes retrieving, analyzing, manipulating, and integrating
information available from different information sources.

The development of cooperative information agents requires expertise from
several different research areas, especially AI, DAI, Databases, and CSCW.
It is particularly important to investigate to what extent AI methods can be
applied for information discovery by groups or teams of information agents in
the Internet. This concerns, e.g., the use of efficient techniques from machine
learning, evolutionary computing, and symbolic or numerical approaches for
uncertain reasoning.
Moreover, commercial aspects of information gathering in the Internet are
becoming more and more relevant, e.g., agents are paid and have to pay for
services. Thus, methods for rational, utility-based cooperation among the
agents are needed. In addition, mobile information agents seems to be
attractive for a flexible, and efficient information discovery in constrained
environments.

The interdisciplinary CIA workshop series covers the whole thematic range of
cooperative information agents. Each workshop focus on a few
selected themes being of particular relevance and actuality.
The CIA-98 workshop will build on the success of CIA-97 ('DAI meets Databases').

TOPICS
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Workshop topics include but are not limited to

o Architectures of Information Agents.

o Agent-based Access to Heterogeneous Information Systems.

o Construction and Use of Ontologies for Multiagent Information Gathering.

o Learning, Interaction and Organization of Multiagent Systems for Information
Discovery in changing Environments.

o Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in large-scale Information Systems.

o Communication among autonomous Information Agents.

o Mobile Information Agents for the Internet.

o Advanced Protocols for Negotiation and Electronic Commerce.
Information Agents in Electronic Markets.

o Collaborative Information Agents in distributed WWW applications.

o Issues of Programming cooperative Information Agents for the Internet.

o Multiagent Systems and Geographical Databases.

o Game-theoretic and other microeconomic principles for rational
Information Agents.

o Security Aspects for Information Agents in the Internet.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for Paper Submission February 6, 1998

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection March 23, 1998

Deadline for camera-ready version April 10, 1998

The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as a volume
in the series LECTURE NOTES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (LNCS subseries).

SUBMISSION
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Each submission includes the full paper and in addition a
separate title page with the title, authors (full address), a 300-400
word abstract, and a list of keywords.
The length of submitted paper must be no more than 12 pages including all
figures, tables, and bibliography. All papers must be written in English.
For publication in the Springer LNCS series, please prepare a
camera-ready version of your contribution together with the corresponding
Springer style files "llncs" (for LaTeX) to be obtained by e-mail or by
ftp as follows.
- Mailserver: Send an e-mail message to svserv@vax.ntp.springer.de
containing the line "get /tex/latex/llncs.zip" for the LaTeX style
files. Sending "help" to the server prompts advice on how to interact
with the mail server. The style files have to be unzipped and uu-decoded
for use.
- Ftp: The internet address is "trick.ntp.springer.de", the user id
"ftp" or "anonymous". Please enter your e-mail address as password.
The (above mentioned) files reside in "/pub/tex/latex/llncs".

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.
With these settings, the interline distance should be arranged in such a way
that some 42 to 45 lines occur on a full-text page. Papers not conforming
to the above requirements may be rejected without review.
Only original papers not submitted to any other workshop, conference or
journal is acceptable.

You can submit your contribution by Mail or Electronic Mail.
It is recommended to submit your paper by electronic mail.
If the receipt of your submission is not confirmed within one week,
you are asked to resend it.

Submission by Electronic Mail:
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Please send the Postscript file (A4 Size) of your contribution to

klusch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
(Matthias Klusch, TU Chemnitz, Germany)

or Submission by Mail:
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If you prefer to send hard-copies, please do not tack the pages of the paper
together and submit three single-sided copies of your contribution to

Gerhard Weiss
Computer Science Department,
Technical University of Munich
80290 Munich, Germany

Up-To-Date INFORMATION about the workshop will be provided
in the WWW at

http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia98.html

AGENTS' WORLD CONTEXT
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Coordinated with CIA-98 will be held seven other international events
at Agents' World (July 2-8, 1998, Cite de Science, Paris, France):

ICMAS-98 Multi-Agent Systems Conference focusing on Multi-Agent Systems
ATAL-98 Workshop on Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages
IATA-98 Workshop on Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Applications
CRW-98 Workshop on Collective Robotics
ACW-98 Workshop on Agents in CommunityWare
MABS-98 Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation
Paris-98 Featuring Robocup'98 and FIRA RWC'98
International Competition between Soccer Robots Teams

A tutorial programme for Agents' World is offered the day before (July 2,
1998). More detailed information about Agent's World is available on:
http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/AgentsWorld

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GENERAL CHAIR:

Matthias Klusch (Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany)

CO-CHAIRS:

Larry Kerschberg (George Mason University, USA)
Gerhard Weiss (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Gilbert Babin (Laval University, Canada)
Wolfgang Benn (University of Chemnitz, Germany)
Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena, Italy)
Hans-Dieter Burkhard (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
Brahim Chaib-draa (Laval University, Canada)
Sharma Chakravarthy (University of Florida, USA)
Keith Decker (University of Delaware, USA)
Misbah Deen (University of Keele, UK)
Yves Demazeau (Leibniz/IMAG/CNRS, France)
Edmund Durfee (University of Michigan, USA)
Frank Dignum (University of Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Carl Hewitt (MIT AI Lab, USA)
Toru Ishida (University of Kyoto, Japan)
Leonid A. Kalinichenko (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Takashi Kido (NTT Information Systems Labs, Japan)
Ami Motro (George Mason University, USA)
Erich Neuhold (GMD IPSI, Germany)
Aris Ouksel (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Tuomas Sandholm (Washington University, USA)
Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)
Munindar P. Singh (North Carolina State University, USA)
Michael Stillger (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
Kurt Sundermeyer (Daimler-Benz Research, Germany)
Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Robert Tolksdorf (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Markus Tresch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Mike Wooldridge (QMW College London, UK)

For further informations please contact

Matthias Klusch
Institute for Computer Science,
Technical University of Chemnitz
Strasse der Nationen 62,
09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Phone: +49-371-5311511
Fax: +49-371-5311530
klusch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
WWW http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/
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