CIA 2008 - Twelfth International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents: Program


	Twelfth International Workshop CIA 2008 on


	Cooperative Information Agents


	September 10 - 12, 2008


	CzechTechnical University, Prague, Czech Republic


	In cooperation with ACM SIGART, SIGWEB, SIGKDD


	Preliminary Program


	September 10, 2008, Wednesday

8:45 Welcome

9:00 - 9:45 Invited Talk I

Coordination and Agreement Technologies for Multi-Agent Systems
Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)

Session I: Trust

   9:45 - 10:15
   Eugen Staab, Volker Fusenig and Thomas Engel:
   Towards Trust-Based Acquisition Of Unverifiable Information.

   10:15 - 10:45
   Mark Hoogendoorn, S. Waqar Jaffry and Jan Treur:
   Modeling Dynamics of Relative Trust of Competitive Information Agents.

   10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

   11:15 - 11:45
   Annerieke Heuvelink, Michel Klein and Jan Treur:
   A Formal Approach to Belief Aggregation.

   11:45 - 12:15 Q & A (Discussion with Presenters)

   12:15 - 14:00 Lunch

   14:00 - 14:45 Invited Talk II

   Agents and Semantic Services: A Critical Review
   Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Session II: Applications (1)

   14:45 - 15:15
   Emilia Garcia, Adriana Giret and Vicent Botti:
   Software engineering for Service-oriented MAS.

   15:15 - 15:45
   David Vallejo, Javier Albusac, Carlos Gonzalez-Morcillo and Luis Jiménez:
   A Service-Oriented Multi-Agent Architecture for Cognitive Surveillance.

   15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break

   16:15 - 16:45
   Martin Rehak, Michal Pechoucek, Martin Grill and Karel Bartos:
   Trust-Based Classifier Combination for Network Anomaly Detection.

   16:45 - 17:15
   Markus Zanker:
   A Distributed Generative CSP Framework for Multi-Site Product Configuration.

   17:15 - 17:45 Q & A (Discussion with Presenters)

   19:00 - 20:30 >>> Welcome Reception <<<


	September 11, 2008, Thursday

9:00 - 9:45 Invited Talk III

   Enabling Networked Knowledge.
   Manfred Hauswirth (DERI Galway, Ireland)

Session III: Applications (2)

   9:45 - 10:15
   Christian Erfurth, Steffen Kern, Wilhelm Rossak, Peter Braun and Antje Lessmann:
   MobiSoft: Networked Personal Assistants for Mobile Users in Everyday Life.

   10:15 - 10:45
   Sergio Saugar and Juan Manuel Serrano:
   A Web-based Virtual Machine for Developing Computational Societies.

   10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

   11:15 - 11:45
   Maiko Kawasoe, Tatsuya Narita and Yasuhiko Kitamura:
   Using the Wizard of Oz Method to Train Persuasive Agents.

   11:45 - 12:15
   Andres Muñoz and Juan Botia:
   ASBO: Argumentation System Based on Ontologies.

   12:15 - 12:30 Q & A (Discussion with Presenters)

   12:30 - 13:45 Lunch

Session IV: System Demonstrations (CIA 2008 System Award Nominees)

   Short System Demonstrations.
   Discussion.
   Public Voting on Systems Presented.

   14:30 - 23:00 >>> Social Program <<<


	September 12, 2008, Friday

9:00 - 9:45 Invited Talk IV

Agents and Databases: A Symbiosis?
Heiko Schuldt (University of Basel, Switzerland)

Session V: Coordination and Communication

   9:45 - 10:15
Toshiharu Sugawara, Toshio Hirotsu, Satoshi Kurihara and Kensuke Fukuda:
   Controling Contract Net Protocol by Local Observation for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems.

   10:15 - 10:45
Jan Tozicka, Stepan Urban, Magdalena Prokopova and Michal Pechoucek:
   Filter Allocation Using Iterative ECNP.

   10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

   11:15 - 11:45
Flavien Balbo and Julien Saunier:
On the Use of Symbolic Data Analysis to Model Communication Environments.

   11:45 - 12:15
Viji Avali and Michael Huhns:
Commitment-Based Multiagent Decision Making.

   12:15 - 12:30 Q & A (Discussion with Presenters)

   12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

   14:00 - 14:30 Invited Talk V

   Agent-Supported Planning in Distributed Command and Control Environments.
   James H. Lawton (US Air Force Research Lab, USA)

Session VI: Negotiation

   14:30 - 14:30
   Koen Hindriks, Catholijn Jonker and Dmytro Tykhonov:
   Towards an Open Negotiation Architecture for Heterogeneous Agents.

   14:30 - 15:00
Jan Doubek, Jiri Vokrinek and Michal Pechoucek:
   Incrementally Refined Acquaintance Model for Consortia Composition.

   15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

   15:30 - 16:00
Nora Faci, Sanjay Modgil, Nir Oren, Felipe Meneguzzi, Simon Miles and Michael Luck:
   Towards a Monitoring Framework for Agent-Based Contract Systems

   16:00 - 16:30
   Shay Raz, Raz Lin and Onn Shehory:
   Collaborative Load-Balancing in Storage Networks Using Agent Negotiation.

   16:30 - 17:00 Q & A (Discussion with Presenters)

   17:00 Closing