EXTENDED Paper Submission DEADLINE >>> APRIL 24, 2002 <<< *************************************************** Sixth International Workshop CIA-2002 on Cooperative Information Agents September 18 - 20, 2002 Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain *************************************************** http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2002.html This workshop is in co-operation with ACM Association for Computing Machinery SIGCOMM and co-sponsored by - Swiss Life AG, IT Research and Development, Switzerland - IBM Research Center, Israel - Elsevier Science, The Netherlands - Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland - Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain - AgentLink II European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing - AutoDesk Inc., USA - GMU E-Center of Excellence in Research and Education for E-Business, USA and supported by - INRIA French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control CIA 2002 is co-located with the ESAW 2002 workshop. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Extended Deadline for Paper Submission: *** April 24, 2002 *** Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: June 3, 2002 Deadline for Camera-Ready Paper: June 24, 2002 INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ======================== * Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile) Advanced Information Retrieval for Intelligent Agents Searching the Internet and Web * Kenji Mase (ATR Media Information Science Lab, Kyoto, Japan) Intelligent Interfaces for Information Agents: Systems, Experiences, Future Challenges * Carles Sierra and Pablo Noriega (Spanish AI Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain) Agents and E-Institutions: Future Trends and Challenges CIA WORKSHOP AWARDS =================== The CIA 2002 workshop issues both CIA 2002 Best Paper Award (sponsored by Elsevier Science, Netherlands) CIA 2002 System Innovation Award (sponsored by Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence) to acknowledge highly innovative research and development, respectively, in the area of intelligent information agents. Further information are at http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2002awards.html. WORKSHOP THEME & TOPICS ======================= 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. Developing 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-2002 workshop. Topics are (but not limited to) * Systems and Applications of Information Agents Architectures, prototypes and fielded systems of information agents. Issues of programming information agents. * Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery and the Semantic Web. Application of techniques of knowledge discovery for information agents acting in open, distributed and dynamically changing environments. Information agents for the Semantic Web (thorough technology surveys, applications) Agent-based distributed knowledge discovery in wide-area networks. * Mobile Information Agents Applications of mobile information agents: Prototypes, experiments, studies, and experiences. Architectures, environments and languages for mobile and secure performance of information agents. * Information Agents and Ubiquitous Computing Collaborating information agents in/for wearable computers, hand-held and/or satellite-based control devices: Applications, survey, and vision. * Rational Information Agents for Electronic Commerce Models of economic rationality and trust for e-commerce. Privacy of communication, security, and jurisdiction for agent-mediated trading. * Intelligent Interfaces for Information Agents Life-like characters and avatars. Information agents for digital cities. Advanced, personalized 3-d visualizations of information spaces. * Adaptive Information Agents Adaptive information retrieval. Advanced user-profiling for collaborative information agents. Self-organizing information agents. Reasoning on uncertain and vague information by resource-bounded information agents. 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, CIA-2001: 2182). The proceedings of the workshop will be available at the workshop. Preparation & Submission of Papers ================================== The length of each paper should not exceed 15 pages. All papers must be written in English. Submissions will be reviewed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. In case of multiple submission please clearly indicate the name and URL of the respective conference, workshop, or other media in the submission email. 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. Each submission includes the full paper (title, authors, abstract, text) either in postscript or PDF format. Please use A4 size when creating the postscript/pdf version of your paper. You may submit your paper either via Electronic or Postal Mail. * Submission by E-Mail: Please send your contribution as compressed (zipped) file to klusch@dfki.de * Submission by Postal Mail: Please send 3 hard copies (untacked pages) of your contribution to the following address: Dr. Matthias Klusch DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 66123 Saarbruecken Germany Organisation ============ General Chair Matthias Klusch (DFKI GmbH, Germany) Co-Chairs Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Onn Shehory (IBM Research Center Haifa, Israel) Programme Committee Wolfgang Benn (TU Chemnitz, Germany) Federico Bergenti (University of Parma, Italy) Sonia Bergamaschi (Universita of Modena, Italy) Cristiano Castelfranchi (NRC Rome, Italy) Brahim Chaib-draa (Laval University, Canada) Rose Dieng (INRIA, France) Frank Dignum (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Tim Finin (University of Maryland at Baltimore, USA) Mike Huhns (University of South Carolina, USA) Toru Ishida (University of Kyoto, Japan) Catholijn Jonker (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Larry Kerschberg (George Mason University, USA) Yasuhiko Kitamura (Osaka City University, Japan) Sarit Kraus (University of Maryland, USA) Daniel Kudenko (University of York, UK) Victor Lesser (University of Massachusetts, USA) Mike Luck (University of Southampton, UK) Pablo Noriega (CSIC, Spain) Werner Nutt (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK) Eugenio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal) Lin Padgham (RMIT, Australia) Ana Paiva (TU Lisbon, Portugal) Michal Pechoucek (TU Prague, Czech Republic) Paolo Petta (Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria) Alun Preece (University of Aberdeen, UK) Omer F. Rana (University of Wales, UK) Ulrich Reimer (Swiss Life AG, Switzerland) Volker Roth (Fraunhofer IGD, Germany) Heiko Schuldt (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA) Amit Sheth (University of Georgia, USA) Carles Sierra (CSIC AI Research Lab, Spain) Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University, USA) Von-Wun Soo (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Robert Tolksdorf (TU Berlin, Germany) Steven Willmott (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland) Mike Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK) Makoto Yokoo (NTT Communication Science Lab, Japan) Eric Yu (University of Toronto, Canada) Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena, Italy) Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) --------------- CONTACT For more information about the workshop please contact: Matthias Klusch DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd. Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany Phone: +49-681-302-5297 Fax: +49-681-302-2235 EMail: klusch@dfki.de URL: http://www.dfki.de/~klusch