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                        CALL FOR PAPERS:
                        
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             Third International Workshop CIA-99 on
  
                COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS             

                   July 31 - August 2, 1999
                        Uppsala (Sweden)
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                       CIA-99 Homepage:
     http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia99.html



The CIA-99 workshop is co-sponsored by the

*  ESPRIT Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing (AgentLink) 
*  Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany.
*  Daimler-Benz AG, Germany.
*  George Mason University, USA.
*  Active On-line Systems Ltd., UK. 

and supported by the

* Special Interest Group on
  Distributed Artificial Intelligence
  of the German Computer Society (GI).


Invited Speakers
================

The CIA-99 features invited talks from leading experts in
intelligent information agents technology:

  Mike P. Papazoglou   (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  Toru Ishida          (University of Kyoto, Japan)
  Michael Wellman      (University of Michigan, USA)
  Pat Langley          (Daimler-Benz R&T at Palo Alto, USA)
  Walt Truszkowski     (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
  Amit Sheth           (Georgia University, USA)
  Erol Gelenbe         (Duke University, USA)
  Alexander Brodsky &
  Samuel Varas         (George Mason University, USA)
  Michael Lewis        (University of Pittsburgh, USA)


CIA-99 Proceedings
==================

The proceedings will be published as a volume in the series Lecture 
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) from Springer Publisher. 
The proceedings of the CIA-97 and CIA-98 workshops appeared as 
LNAI Vol. 1202 and Vol. 1435, respectively. 


CIA-99 Topics & Deadlines
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Modern information environments mainly consist of large, distributed 
and heterogenous resources which are connected in the Internet or 
corporate Intranets. These environments are open and can 
dynamically change over time. To cope with such information 
environments
means, in particular, to deal with uncertain, incomplete and vague 
information. In general, the effective handling of uncertainty is
critical in designing, understanding, and evaluating autonomous, 
computational systems tasked with making intelligent decisions. It is 
also crucial to the ultimate success and broad application of
intelligent information agents on the Internet as well as in any
industrial context. Moreover, any advanced human-agent interaction in 
such environments, e.g., via synthetic characters, believable avatars
or 3-D multimedia-based representation of the so-called virtual 
information space available for individual users in the Internet, 
remains to be a challenging research topic. In addition, up to now 
there are not many systems of (collaborating) mobile information
agents available. 

The CIA-99 workshop mainly focus on the following three 
special themes:

(1) Information agents in UNCERTAIN information environments.

(2) Systems and applications of MOBILE information agents.

(3) Advanced Human-Agent INTERACTION, in particular
    maintenance and visualization of dynamically changing
    VIRTUAL INFORMATION SPACES.

We encourage especially submission of papers that report on
research and development within these themes. 

Besides that, like in previous CIA workshops, all topics in the
research area of intelligent and collaborating information agents
are covered by the CIA-99 workshop.

TOPICS 
^^^^^^

o  Advanced Database and Knowledge-Base Technology

Application of Techniques for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in 
open, distributed and dynamically changing environments. 
Management of uncertain and incomplete knowledge for information
gathering in the Internet or large corporate Intranets.

o  Human-Agent Interaction 

Synthetic Agents, believable avatars, and 3-D multimedia-based 
representation of individual user information spaces in the Internet. 
Advanced interfaces for conversations and dialogues among information 
agents and users. 

o  Adaptive Information Agents

Performance and measurement of adaptation of single agent or 
multiagent systems in uncertain information environments.
Computation and Action under uncertainty and limited resources.
Methods for automated uncertain reasoning for collaborating
information agents.

o  Mobility and Issues of Security in the Internet

Architectures, environments and languages for mobile and secure 
information agents and servers.
Collaborative information agents on wearable computers, hand-held
and/or satellite-based control devices.

o  Rational Information Agents and Electronic Commerce

Agent-based marketplaces in the Internet.
Electronic Commerce with incomplete and uncertain information.
Economic models of cooperative problem solving among rational 
information agents in open information environments.
Standards for privacy of communication, security, and 
jurisdiction for agent-mediated commerce.

o  Systems and Applications

Implemented systems and applications of multiple collaborating 
information agents on the Internet.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for Paper Submission:            March  5, 1999
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection:     April 18, 1999
Deadline for camera-ready version:        May   10, 1999 



CIA-99  Location
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The workshop will be held in the city of Uppsala in Sweden.
Uppsala is located 70 km north from Stockholm with the international
airport Arlanda (ARN) halfway in between. 
Please check the CIA-99 homepage for actual info on the workshop site 
in Uppsala.

There will be a shuttle connection from the workshop site in
Uppsala to the conference center in Stockholm on August 2, 1999
to enable you to attend the IJCAI-99 conference in time.
The IJCAI-99 main conference starts on August 2 in the evening,
the CIA-99 workshop ends on August 2 around noon.



Paper Submission
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The length of submitted paper must be no more than 12 pages (10 pt)
including  all figures, tables, and bibliography. All papers must be 
written in English. Submissions will be reviewed for quality, 
correctness, 
originality and relevance. Papers accepted or under review by other
conferences, workshops or journals are not acceptable.
Papers not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected 
without review.

Each submission includes the full paper (title, authors, abstract,
text), and in addition a separate title page with the title, a 300-400
word abstract, a list of keywords, authors (names, addresses,
email addresses, telephone and fax numbers).

For publication in the Springer LNCS series, please prepare a
camera-ready version of your contribution together with the 
corresponding Springer style files ''llncs'' (for LaTeX) to be 
obtained
by ftp trick.ntp.springer.de (/pub/tex/latex/llncs).
  
For those not using the Springer LNCS style files:
The paper must be formatted using 10 point Times. 
(If Times is not available, please use one of the similar
typefaces 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. 

You can submit your contribution by ** MAIL or ELECTRONIC MAIL **.
It is strongly recommended to submit your paper by electronic mail!
If receipt of your submission is not confirmed within one week,
you are kindly asked to resend it.

Submission:

 - by MAIL to  

   Onn Shehory
   Carnegie Mellon University
   Robotics Institute
   5000 Forbes Av.
   Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA
   Fax: +1-412-2685569  Phone: +1-412-268-3740

   Please send three single-sided hard-copies of your paper.
   
   OR  

- by EMAIL to   onn@cs.cmu.edu

Please send the postscript file of your contribution, and
check if this file is printable on any ordinary postscript printer!
In case of a long file, please use compression (zip, gzip, or 
compress)
before sending it by email, and give information on the type 
of used compression.


 
CIA-99 Organization
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General Chair: 

  Matthias Klusch (Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany)

Co-Chairs:

  Onn Shehory     (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  Gerhard Weiss   (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
 

CIA-99 Program Committee:

  Sonia Bergamaschi         (University of Modena, Italy)
  Wolfgang Benn             (Technical University of Chemnitz, 
Germany)
  Hans-Dieter Burkhard      (Humbold 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 Lab on 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, USA)
  Toru Ishida               (University of Kyoto, Japan)
  Leonid A. Kalinichenko    (Russian Academia of Sciences, Russia)
  Bart Kosko                (University of Southern California, USA)
  Sarit Kraus               (University of Maryland, USA) 
  H.-J. Mueller             (Deutsche Telekom AG, R&D Darmstadt, 
Germany) 
  Joerg P. Mueller          (John Wiley & Sons Corp. London, UK)  
  San Murugesan             (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
  Pablo Noriega             (Institute for AI Research, 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 AG, 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, 
Netherlands)   
  Christian Tschudin        (University of Uppsala, Sweden)
  Mike Wooldridge           (QMW College London, UK)