[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@dfki.de Phone: +49-681-302-5297 http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/