[Haskell] Call for Participation: CIA 2004 Cooperative Information Agents

Matthias Klusch klusch at dfki.de
Wed Jun 30 07:28:07 EDT 2004


[Apologies if you receive this message more than once due to 
cross-posting to relevant mailing lists]

+++ First Call for Participation +++

Dear colleague(s),
we would like to very cordially invite you to join us at the eighth 
international
workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2004) to be held in 
Erfurt, Germany,
from September 27 - 29, 2004.

For more information please visit

              http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2004/

Matthias Klusch, Sascha Ossowski, Vipul Kashyap, Rainer Unland
(CIA 2004 Co-Chairs)

_______________________________________________________

             CIA 2004  PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
_______________________________________________________


Monday, September 27
====================

9:15 Welcome

9:30 - 10:30  INVITED TALK

    Agents and OWL-S.
    Terry Payne (UK)


10:45 - 13:30
Session 1: Information Agents and P2P Computing
-----------------------------------------------

10:45 - 11:15
Design and Implementation of Agent Community based Peer-to-Peer 
Information Retrieval
Tsunenori Mine, Daisuke Matsuno, Akihiro Kogo, Makoto Amamiya (Japan)

11:15 - 11:45
Towards Monitoring of Group Interactions and Social Roles via Overhearing
Silvia Rossi, Paolo Busetta (Italy)

11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 - 12:30
A Probabilistic Approach to Predict Peers' Performance in P2P Networks
Zoran Despotovic, Karl Aberer (Switzerland)

12:30 - 13:00
Personalizing Information Retrieval with Multi-Agent Systems
Fabrício Enembreck, Jean-Paul Barthès, Braulio Coelho Ávila (Brazil)

13:00 - 13:30 (Part of Session 6: Cooperation in Open Environments)
Auction Equilibrium Strategies for Task Allocation in Uncertain Environments
David Sarne, Meirav Hadad, Sarit Kraus (Israel)

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break


14:30 - 15:30 INVITED TALK

    Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining: Current Pleasures, and Future 
Directions.
    Hillol Kargupta (USA)


15:45 - 17:15
Session 2: Communication
------------------------

15:45 - 16:15
On the Impact of Agent Communication Languages on the Implementation of 
Agent Systems
Juan Manuel Serrano, Sascha Ossowski (Spain)

16:15 - 16:45
Reasoning about Communication:A Practical Approach based on Empirical 
Semantics
Felix Fischer, Michael Rovatsos (Germany)

16:45 - 17:15
The Evolution of Probabilistic Reciprocity in a Multi-agent Environment 
with Neighborhoods
Enda Ridge, Michael G. Madden, Gerard J. Lyons (Ireland)



Tuesday, September 28
=====================

9:00 - 10:00  NOD 2004 Keynote Talk (Jim Koplien)

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 13:30
Session 3: Recommender Agents, and Systems
------------------------------------------

10:15 - 10:45
Collaboration Analysis in Recommender Systems using Social Networks
Jordi Palau, Miquel Montaner, Beatriz López, Josep Lluís De la Rosa (Spain)

10:45 - 11:15
Qualitative Analysis of User-based and Item-based Prediction Algorithms 
for Recommendation Agents
Manos Papagelis, Dimitris Plexousakis (Greece)

11:15 - 11:45  CIA 2004 System Innovation Award Finalists (1)
Running system demonstration; Q&A

11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:30  CIA 2004 System Innovation Award Finalists (2)
Running system demonstrations; Q&A; 13:15 Public voting

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break


14:30 - 15:15 INVITED TALK

    Society-Centred Design for Socially Embedded Multi-Agent Systems.
    Toru Ishida (Japan)

15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break


15:30 - 17:00
Session 4: Information Agents and Mobile Computing
--------------------------------------------------

15:30 - 16:00
Agents that Coordinate Devices, Services, and Humans in Ubiquitous Computing
Akio Sashima, Noriaki Izumi, Koichi Kurumatani (Japan)

16:00 - 16:30
Multi-Agent Technology as an Enabler of Computer Supported Cooperative 
Work for the Mobile Workforce
Habin Lee, Patrik Mihailescu, John Shepherdson (UK)

16:30 - 17:00
A-globe: Agent Platform with Inaccessibility and Mobility Support
David Sislák, Milan Rollo, Michal Pìchouèek (Czech Republic)


17:00 - 17:15 Coffee Break

17:15 - 18:45
Session 5: Industrial Applications
----------------------------------

17:15 - 17:45
Supply Chain Management using Cooperative Multi-Agent Mode
Keonsoo Lee, Wonil Kim, Minkoo Kim (South Korea)

17:45 - 18:15
An agent simulation model for the Québec Forest Supply chain
Thierry Moyaux, Brahim Chaib-draa, Sophie D'Amours (Canada)

18:15 - 18:45
Performance analysis of multiagent industrial system
Tomasz Babczynski, Zofia Kruczkiewicz, Jan Magott (Poland)

19:30 - 20:30   NOD 2004 NetTogetherMeeting (Welcome Reception)



Wednesday, September 29
=======================

9:00 - 10:00 NOD 2004 Keynote Talk

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:45
Session 6: Cooperation in Open Environments
-------------------------------------------

10:15 - 10:45
The RoleX Environment for Multi-Agent Cooperation
Giacomo Cabri, Luca Ferrari, Letizia Leonardi (Italy)

(re-scheduled for Monday, 13:00 - 13:30)
Auction Equilibrium Strategies for Task Allocation in Uncertain Environments
David Sarne, Meirav Hadad, Sarit Kraus (Israel)

10:45 - 11:15
Agent's Multiple Inquiries for Enhancing the Partnership Formation Process
David Sarne, Sarit Kraus (Israel)

11:15 - 11:45 Special Report
Rational Cooperative Agents in Open Environments
Matthias Klusch (Germany)

11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:00
CIA 2004 Open Discussion
------------------------

13:00 - 13:30
Closing of CIA 2004
-------------------

- CIA 2004 Best Paper Award Giving
- CIA 2004 System Innovation Award Giving
- CIA 2005 Announcement

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break


14:30 -15:15 NOD 2004 Invited Talk

15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 19:00
In-Depth CIA 2004 Tutorial
--------------------------

    Semantic Web Services and Agents
    Terry Payne (UK)

    In between: Coffee break 17:00 - 17:15


20:30 - 21:30  NOD 2004 NetObjectNight (Social Event)


==================================================================

CIA 2004 is co-sponsored by

     tranSIT GmbH, Germany

     Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland

     Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA), Spain

     URJC Decision Engineering Lab (DMR), Spain

     AgentLink III, EU FP6 Coordinating Action

==================================================================
For more information about the workshop please contact

  Matthias Klusch
  klusch at dfki.de Phone: +49-681-302-5297
  http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/








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