Preliminary Program of the Sixth International Workshop CIA 2002

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September 17, 2002, 18:00
CIA+ESAW 2002 Joint Reception at Madrid Town Hall
Patio de Cristales, Primera Casa Consistorial,
Plaza de la Villa 6, 28013 Madrid, Spain
 

  September 18, 2002


9:30 - 10:00 Registration & Welcome
10:00-11:00
Invited Talk

Intelligent Interfaces for Information Agents: Systems, Experiences, Future Challenges
Kenji Mase 
(ATR Media Information Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan)
 

11:00 - 11:30  coffee break
 
Session 1 
Information Agents for Mobile Computing Environments
11:30 - 12:00

Tourists on the Move
M. Laukkanen, H. Helin, H. Laamanen (Finland)

12:00 - 12:30

An Agent-based Approach for Helping Users of Hand-Held Devices to Browse Software Catalogues
E. Mena, J.A. Royo, A. Illaramendi, A. Goni (Spain)

12:30 - 13:00

Large Scale Peer-to-peer Experiments with Virtual Private Community (VPC) Framework
T. Iwao, M. Okada, K. Kawashima, S. Matsumura, H. Kanda, 
S. Sakamoto, T. Kainuma, M. Amamiya (Japan)

13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK

Session 2
Issues of Interaction and Negotiation

 
14:30 - 14:45

A Cognitive Architecture for the Design of an Interation Agent
A. Garcia-Serrano, J. Calle-Gomez (Spain)

 
14:45 - 15:15

A Multi-Agent Reflective Architecture for User Assistance and its Application to E-Commerce
A. Di Stefano, G. Pappalardo, C. Santoro, E. Tramontana (Italy)

 
15:15 - 15:30

Curious Negotiator
S. Simoff, J. Debenham (Australia)

 
15:30 - 16:00

Measuring Behavior-based Trust Between Negotiating Agents
M. Grimsley, A. Meehan (UK)

 
16:00 - 16:30 coffee break
16:30 - 17:30
Invited Talk

Electronic Institutions: Future Trends and Challenges
Carles Sierra and Pablo Noriega
(Spanish Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain)

 
17:30 - 18:00
Q&A Session: 
Open discussion on presentations of the day
19:00 - 20:00

CIA 2002 RECEPTION
(at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, School of Engineering)

 

 

   September 19, 2002


9:30-10:30
Invited Talk

Agents, Crawlers and Web Retrieval
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
(Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile)

 
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break

Session 3
Information Gathering and Collaborative Filtering

 
11:00 - 11:30

Acquiring an Optimal Amount of Information for Choosing from Alternatives
R. Azoulay-Schwartz, S. Kraus (Israel)

 
11:30 - 12:00

A Competitive Information Recommendation System and Its Behavior
Y. Kitamura, T. Sakamoto, S. Tatsumi (Japan)

 
12:00 - 12:30

Agents that Model and Learn user Interests for Dynamic Collaborative Filtering
G. Uchyigit, K. Clark (UK)

 
12:30 - 13:00

Opinion-Based Filtering Through Trust
M. Montaner, B. Lopez, J.L. de la Rosa (Spain)

 
13:00 - 13:15 (part of Session 6)
Exchanging and Combining Temporal Information in a Cooperative Environment
M. Hadad, S. Kraus (Israel, USA)
 
13:15 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK 
14:30 - 15:15

Session 4
System Demonstrations
(CIA 2002 System Innovation Award Nominees)

 
15:15 - 23:00

CIA 2002 SOCIAL PROGRAM

 

 

     September 20, 2002


9:30-10:30
 Invited Talk

Making Peer Databases Interact - A Vision for an Architecture Supporting Data Coordination
Fausto Giunchiglia
(University of Trento, Italy)

 
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
 

Session 5
Agent-Based Information and Knowledge Management

 
11:00 - 11:30

Data Models and Languages for Agent-Based Textual Information Dissemination
M. Koubarakis, C. Tryfonopoulos, P. Raftopoulou, T. Koutris (Greece)

 
11:30 - 11:45

Integrating Distributed Information Sources with CARROT II
R.S. Cost, S. Kallurkar, H. Majithia, C. Nicholas, Y. Shi (USA)

 
11:45 - 12:15

Distributed Artificial Intelligence for Distributed Corporate Knowledge Management
F. Gandon, R. Dieng-Kuntz (France)

 
12:15 - 12:30

Integrating Information Gathering and Problem-Solving in Open Environments
S. Macho-Gonzalez, B. Faltings (Switzerland)

 
12:30 - 13:00

Supporting Virtual Organisations using BDI Agents and Constraints
S. Chalmers, P.M.D. Gray, A. Preece (UK)

 
13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK

Session 6
Issues of Agent Communication and Cooperation

 
14:30 - 14:45

An Approach to Agent Communication Based on Organisational Roles
J.M. Serrano, S. Ossowski (Spain)

14:45 - 15:15

Exploiting Partially Shared Ontologies for Multi-Agent Communication
H. Stuckenschmidt (The Netherlands)

 
15:15 - 15:45

Evaluation of Distributed and Centralized Agent Location Mechanisms
D. Ben-Ami, O. Shehory (Israel)

 
16:00 - 16:30 coffee break 

Session 7
Issues of Information Agent Mobility

 
16:30 - 16:45

Programming Agent Mobility
R. Montanari, G. Tonti, C. Stefanelli (Italy)

 
16:45 - 17:15

A Method for Protecting Mobile Agents against Denial of Service Attacks
B. Cubaleska, M. Schneider (Germany)

 
17:15 - 17:30

Threshold Route Optimization Algorithm for Information Retrieving Mobile Agents
R. Morawek (Austria)

 
17:30 - 18:00
Q&A Session:
Open discussion on presentations of the day
18:00 - 18:30

Session 8
Closing of the Workshop

Workshop Results, Facts & Acknowledgements
CIA 2002 Best Paper Award
CIA 2002 System Innovation Award
Announcement of CIA 2003