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                      Third International Workshop CIA-99 on

                     COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS

                                  July 31 - August 2, 1999
                                      Uppsala, Sweden
            
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            http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia99.html


The workshop is co-sponsored by

 Deutsche Telekom AG, Berkom GmbH, Germany
 Active Online Systems, London, UK
 Daimler-Chrysler AG, R&T Berlin, Germany
 George Mason University, USA
 Uppsala University, Sweden
 ESPRIT Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing


INVITED SPEAKERS
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 Walt Truszkowski      (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
 Toru Ishida                 (Kyoto University, Japan)
 Pat Langley                (Daimler-Chrysler AG, R&T, USA)
 Amit Sheth                 (Georgia University, USA)
 Mike P. Papazoglou  (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
 Michael Wellman      (University of Michigan, USA)
 Michael C. Lewis       (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
 Alexander Brodsky   (George Mason University, USA)
 Erol Gelenbe               (Duke University, USA)



PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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SATURDAY, july 31, 1999
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8:45 - 9:00  Welcome and Opening of the Workshop

Session 1:
Information Discovery and Management on the Internet
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9:00 - 9:45
Invited Talk:
Agent Technology from a NASA Perspective
Walt Truszkowski, H. Hallock and J. Kurien (USA)

9:45 - 10:30
Invited Talk:
Digital City Kyoto: Towards A Social Information Infrastructure
Toru Ishida (Japan)

10:30 - 11:00  *** Coffee Break ***

11:00 - 11:45
Invited Talk:
Autonomous Search for Information in an Unknown Environment
Erol Gelenbe (USA)

11:45 - 12:30
Invited Talk:
Agent-Based Optimal Constraint Management in Distributed Information
Environments
Alexander Brodsky, Larry Kerschberg and Samual Varas (USA, Chile)

12:30 - 14:00  ***** LUNCH BREAK *****

Parallel Sessions 2 & 3:

Session 2:
Information Agents on the Internet -
Prototypes, Systems and Applications (1)
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14:00 - 14:30
A Multi-Agent Architecture for an Intelligent Website in Insurance
Catholijn M. Jonker, Remco A. Lam, and Jan Treur (Netherlands)

14:30 - 15:00
Formation of Cooperative Behavior among Information Agents in
Web Repository Change Monitoring Service
Santi Saeyor and Mitsuru Ishizuka (Japan)

15:00 - 15:30  Open Discussion


Session 3:
Information Agents on the Internet -
Prototypes, Systems and Applications (2)
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14:00 - 14:30
GETESS - Searching the Web Exploiting German Texts
Steffen Staab, Christian Braun, Ilvio Bruder, et al. (Germany)

14:30 - 15:00
An Agent-Based System for Intelligent Collaborative Filtering
Colm O'Riordan and Humphrey Sorensen (Ireland)

15:00 - 15:30  Open Discussion

15:30 - 16:00  *** Coffee Break ***


Session 4:
Communication and Collaboration
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16:00 - 16:30
Inter-Agent Communication in Cooperative Information Agent-Based 
Systems
Hassan Gomaa (USA)

16:30 - 17:00
Intention Reconciliation in the Context of Teamwork:
An Initial Empirical Investigation
David G. Sullivan, Alyssa Glass, Barbara J. Grosz, and Sarit Kraus 
(USA,
Israel)

17:00 - 17:30
A Similarity Evaluation Technique for Cooperative Problem Solving
with a Group of Agents
Seppo Puuronen and Vagan Terziyan (Finland)

17:30 - 18:00
A Computational Model for a Cooperating Agent System
Misbah Deen (UK)



SUNDAY, august 1, 1999
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Session 5:
Mobile Information Agents
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8:30 - 9:00
Mobile Agents Behaviours: From Declarative Specifications to
Implementation
C. Hanachi, N. Hameurlain, and C. Sibertin-Blanc (France)

9:00 - 9:30
Maintaining Specialized Search Engines through Mobile Filter Agents
W. Theilmann and K. Rothermel (Germany)

9:30 - 10:00
Execution Monitoring in Adaptive Mobile Agents
W. Vieira and L.M. Camarinha-Matos (Portugal)

10:00 - 10:30
Mobile-Agent Mediated Place Oriented Communication
Yasuhiko Kitamura, Yasuhiro Mawarimichi, and Shoji Tatsumi (Japan)

10:30 - 11:00  *** Coffee Break ***


Session 6:
Rational Information Agents for Electronic Business
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11:00 - 11:45
Invited Talk:
Agents and Automated Commerce on the Internet
Michael Wellman (USA)

11:45 - 12:30
Invited Talk:
The Role of Agent Technology in Business to Business Electronic 
Commerce
Mike P. Papazoglou (Netherlands)

12:30 - 14:00  ***** Lunch Break *****

14:00 - 14:30
An Agency-Based Framework for Electronic Business
Larry Kerschberg and Sonali Banerjee (USA)

14:30 - 15:00
Secure Agent-Mediated Auctionlike Negotiation Protocol
for Internet Retail Commerce
X.F. Wang, X. Yi, K.Y. Lam, C.Q. Zhang, and E. Okamoto (Singapore,
Australia)

15:00 - 15:30  **** Coffee Break ***


Session 7:
Service Mediation and Negotiation
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15:30 - 16:15
Invited Talk:
Semantic Information Brokering: How can an Multi-Agent Approach Help?
Amit Sheth, Vipul Kashyap, T. Lima  (USA)

16:15 - 16:30  * Break *

16:30 - 17:00
Arbitration and Matchmaking for Agents with Conflicting Interests
Thomas Tesch and Peter Fankhauser (Germany)

17:00 - 17:30
Enabling Integrative Negotiations by Adaptive Software Agents
Wolfgang Benn, Otmar Goerlitz, and Ralf Neubert (Germany)

17:30 - 18:00  Open Discussion


MONDAY, august 2, 1999
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Session 8:
Adaptive, Personal Assistance
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9:00 - 9:45
Invited Talk:
An Adaptive Conversational Interface for Destination Advice
Pat Langley, C. Thompson, R. Elio, A. Haddadi (USA)

9:45 - 10:30
Invited Talk:
Anticipation, Delegation, and Demonstration: Why Talking to Agents is
Hard
Michael C. Lewis (USA)

10:30 - 11:00
A Cooperative Comprehension-Assistant for Intranet-Based
Information Environments
Ludger van Elst and F. Schmalhofer (Germany)

11:00 - 12:00  Open Discussion & Coffee

12:00 Closing of the Workshop

13:00 - 14:00
Workshop Shuttle Service to Stockholm Conference Center
18:00
Opening of IJCAI-99 Conference at Stockholm Conference Center





REGISTRATION
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Please use the registration form available at

   http://www.docs.uu.se/~tschudin/cia99/

to register for CIA-99 workshop.
The regular registration fee amounts to 170 USD (160 EUR, 1400 SEK).

We offer a discounted fee of 145 USD for members of the
ESPRIT Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing AgentLink
(http://www.agentlink.org).


PROCEEDINGS
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The proceedings of the workshop will be published in July 1999.

  M. Klusch, O. Shehory, and G. Weiss (Eds.),
  Cooperative Information Agents III
  Proceedings 3rd International Workshop CIA-99
  Springer Publisher, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol.
1652.


ORGANIZATION & CONTACT
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General Chair

  Matthias Klusch   (DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd., Germany)

Co-Chairs

  Onn Shehory   (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  Gerhard Weiss   (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
  Larry Kerschberg   (George Mason University, USA)

Program Committee

  Sonia Bergamaschi   (University of Modena, Italy)
  Wolfgang Benn   (Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany)
  Hans-Dieter Burkhard   (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
  Brahim Chaib-draa   (Laval University, Canada)
  Yves Demazeau   (Leibniz/IMAG/CNRS, France)
  Frank Dignum   (University of Eindhoven, Netherlands)
  Innes Ferguson   (Active Online Systems London, UK)
  Klaus Fischer   (DFKI German Research Center for AI, Germany)
  Christian Freksa   (University of Hamburg, Germany)
  Erol Gelenbe   (Duke University, USA)
  Carl Hewitt   (MIT AI Lab, USA)
  Mike Huhns   (University of South Carolina)
  Toru Ishida   (University of Kyoto, Japan)
  Leonid A. Kalinichenko   (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
  Bart Kosko   (University of Southern California, USA)
  Sarit Kraus   (University of Maryland, USA)
  H.-J. Mueller   (Deutsche Telekom AG, R&D-Center Darmstadt)
  Joerg P. Mueller   (Siemens AG, Germany)
  San Murugesan   (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
  Pablo Noriega   (National AI Research Lab, Spain)
  Moira C. Norrie   (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  Aris Ouksel   (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
  Mike P. Papazoglou   (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
  Amit Sheth   (University of Georgia, USA)
  Carles Sierra   (CSIC AI Research Lab, Catalonia, Spain)
  Elizabeth Sonenberg   (University of Melbourne, Australia)
  Kurt Sundermeyer   (Daimler-Benz R&T Berlin, Germany)
  Katia Sycara   (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  Peter Thomas   (UWE Bristol, UK)
  Robert Tolksdorf   (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
  Jan Treur   (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  Christian Tschudin   (University of Uppsala, Sweden)
  Mike Wooldridge   (QMW College London, UK)


For more information please visit the CIA-99 Web page

  http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia99.html

or contact

  Matthias Klusch
  DFKI GmbH
  Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
  Phone: +49-681-302-5297
  Fax:   +49-681-302-2235
  email: klusch@dfki.de