Eighth International Workshop CIA 2004 on

  Cooperative Information Agents

  September 27 - 29, 2004            Erfurt, Germany           Fair and Congress Center  

In cooperation with ACM SIGART and ACM SIGWeb

Co-sponsored by

Preliminary Program (status: 8.9.2004)

Monday, September 27

8:45   Welcome

9:00 - 10:00 CIA 2004 & NOD 2004 Invited Talk

   Agents and OWL-S.
   Terry Payne (UK)

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 13:30
Session 1:   Information Agents and P2P Computing

10:15 - 10:45
Design and Implementation of Agent Community based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval
Tsunenori Mine, Daisuke Matsuno, Akihiro Kogo, Makoto Amamiya (Japan)

10:45 - 11:15
Towards Monitoring of Group Interactions and Social Roles via Overhearing
Silvia Rossi, Paolo Busetta (Italy)

11:15 - 11:45
A Probabilistic Approach to Predict Peers' Performance in P2P Networks
Zoran Despotovic, Karl Aberer (Switzerland)

11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 - 12:30 Special Report

12:30 - 13:00 (Part of Session 6: Cooperation in Open Environments)
Auction Equilibrium Strategies for Task Allocation in Uncertain Environments
David Sarne, Meirav Hadad, Sarit Kraus (Israel)

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 - 15:15 CIA 2004 & NOD 2004 Invited Talk

  Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining: Current Pleasures, and Future Directions.
   Hillol Kargupta (USA)

15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00
Session 2:   Communication

15:30 - 16:00
On the Impact of Agent Communication Languages on the Implementation of Agent Systems
Juan Manuel Serrano, Sascha Ossowski (Spain)

16:00 - 16:30
Reasoning about Communication:A Practical Approach based on Empirical Semantics
Felix Fischer, Michael Rovatsos (Germany)

16:30 - 17:00
The Evolution of Probabilistic Reciprocity in a Multi-agent Environment with Neighborhoods
Enda Ridge, Michael G. Madden, Gerard J. Lyons (Ireland)

 

Tuesday, September 28

9:00 - 10:00 NOD 2004 Keynote Talk (Jim Koplien)

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 13:30
Session 3:   Recommender Agents, and Systems

10:15 - 10:45
Collaboration Analysis in Recommender Systems using Social Networks
Jordi Palau, Miquel Montaner, Beatriz López, Josep Lluís De la Rosa (Spain)

10:45 - 11:15
Qualitative Analysis of User-based and Item-based Prediction Algorithms for Recommendation Agents
Manos Papagelis, Dimitris Plexousakis (Greece)

11:15 - 11:45

  • Open Discussion (1) - Talks on Monday and Tuesday morning
  • System Demonstration Set up

11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:30  CIA 2004 System Innovation Award Final: Demonstration

  • System demonstration: A-globe: Agent Platform with Inaccessibility and Mobility Support. Developed by David Sislák, Milan Rollo, Michal Pěchoucek. Dept. of Cybernetics, FEE, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
  • Summary Statement
  • Q&A

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 - 15:15 CIA 2004 & NOD 2004 Invited Talk

   Society-Centred Design for Socially Embedded Multi-Agent Systems.  
   Toru Ishida (Japan)

15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00
Session 4:  Information Agents and Mobile Computing

15:30 - 16:00
Agents that Coordinate Devices, Services, and Humans in Ubiquitous Computing
Akio Sashima, Noriaki Izumi, Koichi Kurumatani (Japan)

16:00 - 16:30
Multi-Agent Technology as an Enabler of Computer Supported Cooperative Work for the Mobile Workforce
Habin Lee, Patrik Mihailescu, John Shepherdson (UK)

16:30 - 17:00
A-globe: Agent Platform with Inaccessibility and Mobility Support
David Sislák, Milan Rollo, Michal Pěchouček (Czech Republic)


17:00 - 17:15 Coffee Break

17:15 - 18:45
Session 5:   Industrial Applications

17:15 - 17:45
Supply Chain Management using Cooperative Multi-Agent Mode
Keonsoo Lee, Wonil Kim, Minkoo Kim (South Korea)

17:45 - 18:15
An agent simulation model for the Québec Forest Supply chain
Thierry MOYAUX, Brahim CHAIB-DRAA, Sophie D'AMOURS (Canada)

18:15 - 18:45
Performance analysis of multiagent industrial system
Tomasz Babczynski, Zofia Kruczkiewicz, Jan Magott (Poland)
 

19:30 - 20:30  NOD 2004 NetTogetherMeeting (Welcome Reception)



Wednesday, September 29

9:00 - 10:00 NOD 2004 Keynote Talk

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:45
Session 6:   Cooperation in Open Environments

10:15 - 10:45
The RoleX Environment for Multi-Agent Cooperation
Giacomo Cabri, Luca Ferrari, Letizia Leonardi (Italy)

(re-scheduled for Monday, 12:30 - 13:00)
Auction Equilibrium Strategies for Task Allocation in Uncertain Environments
David Sarne, Meirav Hadad, Sarit Kraus (Israel)

10:45 - 11:15
Agent's Multiple Inquiries for Enhancing the Partnership Formation Process
David Sarne, Sarit Kraus (Israel)

11:15 - 11:45 Special Report
Rational Cooperative Agents in Open Environments
Matthias Klusch (Germany)

11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:00
Open Discussion (2) - Talks on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday

Closing of CIA 2004

  • CIA 2004 System Innovation Award Giving
  • CIA 2004 Best Paper Award Giving
  • CIA 2005 Announcement

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 -15:15 NOD 2004 Invited Talk

15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 19:00
In-Depth CIA 2004 Tutorial

   Semantic Web Services and Agents
   Terry Payne (UK)

   In between: Coffee break 17:00 - 17:15
 

20:30 - 21:30  NOD 2004 NetObjectNight (Social Event)

 

Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence

Co-located with                                         Net.Object Days 2004 Multi-Conference, and                                                                                  2nd German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies (MATES 2004)        

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