Important Dates
 

Submission of Papers: April 22, 2001 (Extended Deadline!)
Notification about Acceptance: June 15, 2001
Camera-Ready Papers: June 22, 2001

Information agent technology is one of the major key technologies for the Internet and worldwide Web.
An information agent is a computational software entity that has access to one or multiple, heterogeneous and distributed information sources, pro-actively searches for and maintains relevant information on behalf of users or other agents preferably just-in-time. In other words, it is managing and overcoming the difficulties associated with information overload in the open and exponentially growing Internet and Web.
Although low-level infrastructure has been developed to support interoperability between heterogeneous databases and application programs, this is not sufficient when dealing with higher-level object organizations such as vertical business object frameworks and workflows. Existing multi-database or federated database systems do not support any kind of pro-active information discovery. One key challenge of advanced information systems is to balance the autonomy of databases and legacy systems with the potential payoff of leveraging them by the use of information agents to perform collaborative work.
Development of information agents requires expertise from different research disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence (AI),  advanced databases and knowledge base systems, distributed information systems, adaptive information retrieval, and Human Computer Interaction (HCI).

Like in the previous CIA workshops, all hot topics in the research area of intelligent and collaborating information agents are covered by the CIA-2001 workshop.

Topics are (but not limited to)

• Systems and Applications of Information Agents
• Architectures, prototypes and fielded systems of collaborating information agents for information discovery and management in the Internet and Web.
• Issues of Programming Collaborative Information Agents for the Internet.
• Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Large-Scale Information Systems.
• Application of techniques of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery for agents acting in open, distributed and dynamically changing environments.
• Construction and reuse of ontologies for collaborative information gathering and management in heterogeneous information environments.
• Mobile Information Agents and Computing
• Applications of cooperating mobile information agents in wearable computers, hand-held and/or satellite-based control devices (WAP-compliant Web handies, communicators, etc.).
• Architectures, environments and languages for mobile and secure performance of information agents and servers.
• Rational Information Agents and Electronic Commerce
• Virtual agent-based institutions of e-commerce (marketplaces, auctions).
• E-commerce with incomplete and uncertain information.
• Models of rationality for and economic models of cooperative problem solving among rational information agents in open information environments.
• Privacy of communication, security, and jurisdiction for agent-mediated deals.
• Human-Agent Interaction and Intelligent Interfaces for Information Agents
• Synthetic agents, believable avatars, and 3-D multimedia-based representation of user information spaces in the Internet.
• Models and implementation of advanced interfaces for conversation and dialogue among information Agents and Users.
• Dynamic inspection of information agents' work by the user.
• Adaptation
• Advanced methods for single and multiagent system learning.
• Performance, relationship and application of multiagent learning for collaborating information agents.
• Self-emerging collaboration among information agents.
• Computation and action under limited resources.
• Methods for automated uncertain reasoning for knowledge based information agents.
• Distributed, adaptive Information Retrieval

Proceedings

The proceedings of the CIA workshop series are published as volumes in the Springer series of
Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (CIA-97: LNAI 1202, CIA-98: LNAI 1435, CIA-99: LNAI 1652, CIA-2000: LNAI 1860)
The proceedings of the workshop will be available at the workshop.
 

Preparation of Papers

The length of each paper should not exceed 12 pages. All papers must be written in English. Submissions will be reviewed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Papers accepted or under review by other conferences, workshops or journals are not acceptable. Papers not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without review.

For preparation of camera-ready papers to be submitted please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

For those not using the Springer LNCS style files: The paper must be formatted in A4 size using 10 point Times. (If Times is not available, please use one of the similar fonts widely used in phototypesetting.) Printing area should be 12.2 x 19.3 cm, and the interline distance should be arranged in such a way that some 42 to 45 lines occur on a full-text page.

Submission of Papers

Each submission includes the full paper (title, authors, abstract, text), and in addition a separate title page with the title, a 300-400 word abstract, a list of keywords, authors (names, addresses, email addresses, telephone and fax numbers).
You may submit your paper by Electronic Mail or Postal Mail.
 

• Submission by E-Mail:

Please send your contribution in postscript format, preferably in A4 format, as compressed file to:

klusch@dfki.de
 

• Submission by Postal Mail:

Please send 4 hard-copies (untacked pages) of your contribution to the following address:

Dr. Matthias Klusch
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbruecken
Germany

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