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REMINDER:
Second International Workshop CIA-98
COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS
- Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce
for Information Discovery in the Internet -
( http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia98.html )
July 3 - 8, 1998
Cite de Sciences - La Vilette, Paris (France).
at the Agents' World Event 1998
The Workshop is co-sponsored by the
* Daimler-Benz AG, Stuttgart (Germany)
* Center for Information Systems Integration and Evolution,
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (USA)
and supported by the
* Special Interest Groups on
o Distributed Artificial Intelligence,
o Database Systems, and
o Information Retrieval
of the German Society for Computer Science.
* German National Research Center for Information Technology
Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute.
Invited Speakers
* Tuomas Sandholm (Washington University, USA)
* Robert Tolksdorf (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
* Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
* Sharma Chakravarthy (University of Florida, USA)
* Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)
* Michael Huhns / Munindar Singh
(University of South Carolina/North Carolina State University, USA)
* Edmund Durfee (University of Michigan, USA)
Software Presentation and Keynote Speakers from Industry
* Joerg Mueller (Zuno Ltd, UK)
Workshop Description
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.
Cooperative information agents work together in order to achieve private or
global goals. One of their main tasks 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 cooperative
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 will 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') and mainly focus on
the themes 'learning', 'mobility' and 'electronic commerce' in the context
of cooperative information discovery. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:
* Architectures of information agents.
* Knowledge discovery and data mining in large-scale information systems.
* Transparent access to heterogeneous information sources in the
Internet.
* Construction and use of ontologies for multiagent information
gathering.
* Learning, interaction and organization of multiagent systems for
information
discovery in changing environments.
* Communication among autonomous information agents.
* Industrial applications of agent technology.
* Mobile information agents in the Internet.
* Collaborative information agents in distributed WWW applications.
* Issues of programming cooperative information agents for the Internet.
* Multiagent Systems and Geographical Databases.
* Game-theoretic and other microeconomic principles for
rational information agents.
* Advanced protocols for negotiation and electronic commerce.
Information agents in electronic markets.
* Security aspects for information discovery in the Internet.
Important Dates
Deadline for Paper Submission February 6, 1998
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection March 27, 1998
Deadline for camera-ready version April 10, 1998
Proceedings
The workshop proceedings including all accepted papers will be available for
all registered participants at the workshop. The proceedings will be
published by Springer as a volume in the LNAI series (Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence, subseries of LNCS).
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and
practical work in the area of cooperative information agents. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to the ones listed above in the
workshop description. Papers which describe ongoing research or provide an
excellent surveying work are in particular welcome. All submitted papers
will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Papers
accepted or under review by other conferences, workshops or journals are not
acceptable.
Preparation:
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).
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 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. Manuscripts prepared in this preferred format are
reproduced in the same size in the book. 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. The length of submitted camera-ready paper must be no more
than 12 pages including all figures, tables, and bibliography. All papers
must be written in English. Papers not conforming to the above requirements
may be rejected without review.
Submission:
Papers can be submitted by mail or electronic mail. It is strongly
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:
Please send your paper in POSTSCRIPT format (A4 SIZE) to
Matthias Klusch: klusch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Phone: +49-371-531-1511, Fax: +49-371-531-1530
* Submission by Mail:
If you prefer to send hard-copies by mail, please do not tack the pages
of the paper together and send three copies to
Gerhard Weiss
Institut fuer Informatik / Computer Science Department
Technische Universitaet Muenchen / Technical University of Munich
D-80290 Muenchen / D-80290 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49-89-28922390, Fax: +49-89-28928207
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)
Frank Dignum (University of Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Edmund Durfee (University of Michigan, USA)
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 more information about the workshop
please contact Matthias Klusch
Technical University of Chemnitz
Computer Science Department
Strasse der Nationen 62
Phone: +49-371-531-1511, Fax: +49-371-531-1530
EMail: klusch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
URL: http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/
and/or see http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia98.html
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