Preliminary Program of the International Workshop CIA 2001

September 6, 2001

9:15 Welcome

9:30 - 13:00 Session 1
Information Agents for Mobile and Wireless Environments:
Practical Issues and Directions

9:30-10:30
Invited Talk:
Information Agents for Mobile and Embedded Devices
T. Finin (USA)

10:30-11:00
Enabling FIPA agents on small devices
G. Adorni, F. Bergenti, A. Poggi, G. Rimassa (Italy)

11:00-11:15
Towards efficient and reliable agent communication in
wireless environments
H. Helin, M. Laukkanen (Finland)

11:15 -- coffee break --

11:45-12:45
Invited Talk:
Mobile Agents: State of the Art and Research Opportunities
G.P. Picco (Italy)

-- 15 min open discussion on talks of the session --

LUNCH BREAK (13:00 - 14:30)

14.30 - 16:00 Session 2
Personal Assistance: Interaction and Avatars

14:30-15:30
Invited Talk:
Interactive Integration of Information Agents on the Web
Y. Kitamura,et al. (Japan)

15:30-15:45
Improving communication in 3D virtual environments
by means of task delegation in agents
R. Imbert, A. de Antonio, J. Segovia (Spain)

15:45-16:00
Wizard of Oz Method for Learning Dialog Agents
M. Okamoto, Y. Yang, T. Ishida (Japan)

16:00 -- 30 min coffee break --

16:30 - 18:00 Session 3
Information Search and Recommendation

16:30 - 16:45
Supporting User-Profiled Semantic Web-Oriented Search
L. Palopoli, D. Rosaci, G. Terracina, D. Ursino (Italy)

16:45 - 17:00
Recommending a trip plan by negotiation with a software travel agent
V.-W. Soo, S.-H. Liang (Taiwan)

17:00 - 17:15
CoWing: A collaborative bookmark management system
R. Kanawati, M. Malek (France)

17:15 - 17:30
Context-Aware Agents for Personal Information Services
E. Plaza, J.-L. Arcos (Spain)

17:30 - 17:45
Part of Session 9 (Issues of Collaboration and Coordination):
A mechanism for temporal reasoning by collaborative agents
M. Hadad, S. Kraus (Israel, USA)

-- 15 min open discussion on talks of the day --

18.30 - 20.00
Reception at the Faculty of Engineering Hall

Drinks & Appetizers
Welcome by the

Local Chair of CIA 2001: Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena & Reggio Emilia)
Dean of University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, or Mayor of the City of Modena

September 7, 2001

9.15 - 10:45 Session 4
Data Warehousing and Mining

9:15-10:15
Invited Talk:
Data Warehouse Quality and Agent Technology
M. Jarke (Germany)

10:15-10:30
Decision Trees for Multiple Abstraction Levels of Data
D. Lee, M. Jeong (Korea)

-- 15 min open discussion on talks of the session --

10:45 - 13:00 Session 5
Collaborative Information Agents: Systems and Applications

10:45-11:15
Supporting Information Integration With Autonomous Agents
S. Bergamaschi, G. Cabri, F. Guerra, L. Leonardi,
M. Vincini, F. Zambonelli (Italy)

11:15 -- coffee break --

11:45-12:15
Extending a multi-agent system for genomic annotations
K. Decker, S. Khan, C. Schmidt, D. Michaud (USA)

12:15-12:30
Using agents in performing multi-site queries
E. Di Nitto, C. Ghezzi, M. Sabba, P. Selvin (Italy)

12:30-13:00
Domain-independent ontologies for cooperative information agents
M. Gomez, C. Abasolo, E. Plaza (Spain)

-- 15 min Open discussion on talks of the day --

LUNCH BREAK (13:15 - 14:30)

14:30 - 15:30 Session 6: System Demonstrations

LEAP - Enabling FIPA agents on small devices
Federico Bergenti (University of Parma, Italy)

Towards Efficient and Reliable Agent Communication in Wireless Environment
H. Helin, M. Laukkanen (Sonera, Finland)

16:00 - 23:00 SOCIAL PROGAM

16:00 Shuttle leaves from University to Maranello & Galleria Ferrari
16:45 - 17:45 Guided visit to Galleria Ferrari or guided walking tour in Maranello historic centre
18:00 Shuttle from Maranello to Vignola
18:20 - 19:00 Guided visit to "Acetaia" in Vignola (with balsamic vinegar offerings)
19:15 - 22:00 Common Dinner in Vignola

appetizers on the terrace, dinner inside, coffee and liquors on the terrace with piano music

22:00 - 22:30 Shuttle returns to Modena city center and hotels.

September 8, 2001

9:00 - 10:45 Session 7
Trading Internet Agents (1): Auctions

9:00-9:30
An autonomous bidding agent for simultaneous auctions
N. Formara, L.M. Gambardella (Switzerland)

9:30-10:00
Optimality and risk in purchase from multiple auctions
O. Shehory (Israel)

10:00-10:30
Cryptographic protocols for secure second-price auctions
F. Brandt (Germany)

-- 15 min open discussion on talks of the session --

10:45 - 13:00 Session 8
Trading Internet Agents (2): Strategies, Negotiation, and Design

10:45-11:15
Equilibria strategies for selecting sellers and satisfying buyers
C.V. Goldman, S. Kraus, O. Shehory (USA, Israel)

11:15 -- coffee break --

11:45-12:15
On the logical aspects of argument-based negotiation among agents
L. Brito, P. Novais, J. Neves (Portugal)

12:15-12:30
Introducing a multi-agent, multi-criteria methodology for modeling
electronic consumer's behavior: The case of Internet radio
N. Manouselis, N.F. Matsatsinis (Greece)

12:30-12:45
Modeling commercial knowledge to develop advanced agent-based
marketplaces for e-commerce
M. Molina (Spain)

12:45-13:00
Arms race within information ecosystems
B. Carlsson, R. Gustavsson (Sweden)

-- 15 min discussion on talks of the session --

LUNCH BREAK (13:15 - 14:30)

14:30 - 17:45 Session 9
Issues of Collaboration and Coordination

14:30-15:30
Invited Talk:
Information Agents: The Social Nature of Information and the Role of Trust
C. Castelfranchi (Italy)

15:30-16:00
A Framework for the Exchange and Installation of Protocols
in a Multi-Agent System
T. Iwao, Y. Wada, M. Okada, M. Amamiya (Japan)

16:00 -- coffee break --

16:30-16:45
Ontology negotiation as a basis for opportunistic cooperation between
intelligent information agents
S.C. Ballin, W. Truszkowski (USA)

16:45-17:15
Agent coordination infrastructures for virtual enterprises and
workflow management
A. Ricci, E. Denti, A. Omicini (Italy)

17:15 -- 30 min open discussion on the talks of the day --

17:45 - 18:00 Session 10
Closing of the Workshop

- Workshop Results, Facts & Acknowledgements
- CIA Best Paper Award 2001
- CIA System Innovation Award 2001
- Announcement of CIA 2002