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Aims
& Scope
Information
agent technology is one of the major key technologies for the Internet
and world wide Web. An information agent is a computational software
entity that has access to one or multiple, heterogeneous and
geographically dispersed data and information sources, pro-actively
searches for and maintains relevant information on behalf of its human
users or other agents preferably just-in-time. In other words, it is
managing and overcoming the difficulties associated with information
overload in open, pervasive information and service landscapes. An
information agent may collaborate with other agents to accomplish
individual and joint tasks for a variety of business applications. One
key challenge of developing agent-based information systems is to
balance the autonomy of networked data, information and knowledge
sources with the potential payoff of leveraging them by the appropriate
use of intelligent information agents. Interdisciplinary research and
development of information agents requires expertise in relevant
domains of information retrieval, artificial intelligence, database
systems, human-computer interaction, and Internet and Web technology.
The CIA 2004 workshop aims at providing an interdisciplinary forum for
researchers, software developers, and managers to get informed about,
present, and discuss latest high quality results in advancements of
theory and practice in information agent technology for the Internet,
the Web, and the Semantic Web.
Call
for Participation (flyer, pdf, 89kb)
The CIA
workshop series has been
initiated in 1997; since then the events of the series have been held
annually at different locations in Europe and across the world. Each
event of the series offers regular and invited talks of excellence that
are given by distinguished experts, system demonstrations, and honors
innovative research and development of information agents by means of a
Best Paper Award and a System Innovation Award. The proceedings of the
series are published as volumes of the Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI) series of the Springer Verlag.
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