Fourth Meeting of SIG on Intelligent Information Agents

Preliminary Schedule

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MONDAY, February 21, 1999 (Plenary Day)

9:15 Welcome.
Session 1:  Activities in Information Agent R&D in Europe and worldwide
 Chair:  M. Klusch
9:30 - 10:30
  • Information Agent Technology in Australia: Status, Challenges and Perspectives.
    Leon Sterling, University of Melbourne, Australia. [9:30 - 10:00]

  • New Inititiatives Stimulating the European Information Society - The Need for Indicators
    Gard Titlestad, European Commission, DG XIII - ISAC/ISPO. [10:00 - 10:30]
10:30 - 11:00 *** Coffee Break ***
11:00 - 12:30
  • NumberCruncher - Minimal Multi-Agent Systems for Classifying Data.
    Marc-Philippe Huget, Equipe MAGMA/Leibniz, France. [11:00 - 11:20]

  • Project MIAMI: Modelling Information Agents and Markets of Information
    Michael Schroeder, City University London, UK. [11:20 - 11:40]

  • Project CRISTAL: Towards a Computing Infrastructure for Design,
    Management and Operation of Large-Scale Once-Off Products.
    Christoph Koch, CERN, Switzerland. [11:40 - 12:10]

  • An Agent Architecture for Multi-Attribute Negotiation
    Catholijn Jonker & Jan Treur, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands. [12:10 - 12:30]


12:30 - 14:00 *** Lunch Break ***
Session 2:  Commercial Applications of Information Agent Technology
Chair:  M. Klusch
14:00 - 17:00
  • [14:00 - 14:40]

  • Christopher Muenchhoff (DealPilot.com, Germany):
    DealPilot.com: A Comparison Shopping Agent on the Internet. [14:00 - 14:40]

  • Thomas Feld (JET Online GmbH, Germany):
    From Online Shops to Virtual Markets. [14:40 - 15:20]

    *** Coffee Break *** (16:00 - 16:30)

  • Stefan Kirn (TU Ilmenau, Germany):
    German Priority Research Program on Multi-Agent Systems
    for Economic Applications.     [16:30 - 17:00]
17:00 - 17:30 OPEN DISCUSSION

19:00 - 21:00 Foyer CS Department *** RECEPTION ***



TUESDAY, February 22, 1999

Session 3:  The SIG Working Groups: Reports
 Chairs:  D. Fensel, P. Petta
10:00 - 11:00 Plenary Presentations of Working Group ADK:
Agent-Based Mediation Among Information Systems, Data and Knowledge Management

  • Dieter Fensel (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands):
    Activities of the ADK Group

  • Mounia Lalmas (QMW College London, UK):
    Formal combination of ontologies - Implememtaion on top of Hyspirit

  • Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe, Germany):
    Ontology Engineering in RDF(S)
11:00 - 12:00 Plenary Presentations of Working Group C3:
Communication, Coordination and Collaboration Among Information Agents.

  • Paolo Petta (AIAI Vienna, Austria):
    Activities of the C3 Group

  • (additional presentations to be announced)
12:00 - 13:30 *** Lunch Break ***
Parallel Sessions 4 & 5:  Activities of SIG Working Groups for I2A R&D (I)
 Chairs:  D. Fensel, P. Petta
Session 4: ADK Working Group Meeting
13:30 - 17:30		 Actual and Future Joint Work of the Working Group

Work package 'Form':
Examine existing standards for describing metadata and developing a standard for exchanging ontologies based on this analysis. In this context, work of W3C on XML, work of FIPA on ontology agents, and work of the OMG group on MOF will be studied.

Session 5: C3 Working Group Meeting
13:30 - 17:30		 Actual and Future Work of the Working Group

20:00 *** COMMON DINNER ***




WEDNESDAY, February 23, 1999

Parallel Sessions 6 & 7:  Activities of SIG Working Groups (II)
 Chairs:  D. Fensel, P. Petta
Session 6: ADK Working Group Meeting
10:00 - 12:30		 Actual and Future Projects of the Working Group

Work package 'Reasoning':

  • Enrico Franconi:
    (a) introduces the general ideas in information integration according the DWQ glasses, and
    (b) introduces how the above could be extended to cope with Web/XML/semi-strucured data
  • Sonia Bergamaschi:
    Using WordNet to build a concrete ontology: the MOMIS experience
Session 7:
C3 Working Group Meeting
10:00 - 12:30		 Actual and Future Projects of the Working Group
12:30 - 14:00 *** Lunch Break ***
Session 8:  Closing Session
Chair: M. Klusch
14:00 - 15:00 Reports from Working Group Meetings (D. Fensel, P. Petta)
Open Discussion/Final Remarks.



Last modification:   February 4, 2000 by M. Klusch

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