Subject: Call for Participation: CIA 2004 Cooperative Information Agents
From: Matthias Klusch
+++ 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)
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CIA 2004 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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Monday, September 27
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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
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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 Barthčs, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Pěchouček (Czech Republic)
17:00 - 17:15 Coffee Break
17:15 - 18:45
Session 5: Industrial Applications
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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
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9:00 - 10:00 NOD 2004 Keynote Talk
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:45
Session 6: Cooperation in Open Environments
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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
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13:00 - 13:30
Closing of CIA 2004
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- 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
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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)
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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
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For more information about the workshop please contact
Matthias Klusch
klusch@dfki.de Phone: +49-681-302-5297
http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/