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International
Workshop
Series CIA on
Cooperative
Information Agents
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NEWS:
After twelve years,
the annual international workshop series on cooperative information
agents will close with its 2008 edition in Prague.
The
research area of intelligent information agents is established within
both the scientific community and the business world. But it has been a
long way
to that since the term “intelligent information agent” has been coined
in the seminal work of Mike Papazoglou and his colleagues in 1992. In
fact, the
CIA workshop series was founded in 1997 to complement the conference
series on cooperative information systems (CoopIS) at that time with a
small but distinguished workshop forum for all people interested in
research and development of intelligent information agents for the
Internet, the Web
and – later on – the Semantic Web. Since the beginning of the 1990s, an
increasing number and variety of agent-based information systems in
different
application domains such as e-health, e-government, bioinformatics,
e-commerce, and logistics has been deployed. In addition, most of the
original topics
of the CIA series have been taken up by major scientific conferences in
relevant disciplines like intelligent agents and multi-agent systems,
service-oriented
computing, information systems, and P2P computing by default now.
Recently, the CIA series has been top-ranked 55 from 620 considered
conferences
in the domain Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
(www.cs-conference-ranking.org, July 21, 2008).
So, personally, I think the series did successfully accomplish its
mission in support of inter-disciplinary research of intelligent
information agents.
Whether there will be a need and demand to continue with it or to join
forces for a similar enterprise in the future remains to be seen; it
largely
depends on the further evolution of the field and its sufficient
coverage by other major events.
Therefore, I would like to very gratefully thank all authors of
submissions, the participants, the invited speakers, as well as each of
the brave local
organisation teams, the program co-chairs, and the program committee
members of all editions for their absolutely impressive and encouraging
collaboration in various ways in the past dozen of years. My particular
thanks go to the sponsors of the series for their generous support,
and last but not least to the incredible team at Springer for
publishing all proceedings as volumes of the Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence
(LNAI) series.
Thank
you!!
With best wishes, Matthias Klusch
The CIA workshop series has been
top-ranked 55 from 620 considered conferences in the domain Artificial
Intelligence/Machine Learning;
its EIC value (Estimated Impact of Conference; normalized to be in the
range 0.00-1.00 - the closer the number to 1.00, the better the
conference)
is 0.55. Weights used to determine EIC: CP: 30% - citation of
papers; RR: 30% - quality of referees' reports; RS: 25% - availability
of resources
to students by the conference (funds for travel, fees, hotel); JA: 10%
- conference papers accepted/appeared in reputable journals after the
conference;
IN: 5% indexing. Source:
www.cs-conference-ranking.org/conferencerankings/ (Topics II, status as
of July 21,
2008)
Aim
The objective of the international workshop
series on cooperative information agents
(CIA) is to provide a small but lively and inter-disciplinary forum for
researchers,
software developers, and managers to get informed about, present, and
discuss latest high-quality results in advancements of theory and
practice of agent-based intelligent and cooperative
information systems, and applications for
current and
future open information and service
environments in the Internet, Web, and semantic Web. Each event of the
series is designed to offer the registered participants the following
items for a very reasonable registration fee
- Scientific
program rich in interesting and inspiring regular talks
- Selection of attractive invited talks of
excellence given by distinguished researchers in relevant domains
- Formal proceedings published and world widely distributed
- Easily accessible, comfortable, and attractive venue, convenient
overall
organisation, and a
nice social program
- Best paper award giving
- Demonstration of running prototypes and systems selected by the
organizational board
- System
innovation award giving
The series has been founded in 1997; since then the events of
the
series are held annually at different locations across
the world (though, up to date mainly in Europe). The proceedings of the
series are regularly published as volumes of the Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series of the Springer Verlag.
Background
One key challenge of developing advanced agent-based information
systems is to balance the autonomy of networked data and
knowledge sources with the potential payoff of leveraging them by the
appropriate use of intelligent information agents on the Internet. An information
agent is a computational software entity that has access to one
or multiple, potentially heterogeneous, and geographically and
logically distributed data and information
sources, pro-actively acquires, mediates, and maintains relevant
information
on behalf of its human users or other agents, preferably just-in-time.
In other words, it is supposed to manage and overcome the difficulties
associated with information overload in the open and exponentially
growing Internet
and Web. Originally, the term "information agent" has been coined by
Papzoglou in his seminal work on intelligent cooperative information
systems (1992).
Depending on the application and tasks at hand intelligent information
agents may collaborate in open, networked data and information
environments
to provide added value to a variety of applications in different
domains.
Thus, research and development of information agents is inherently
inter-disciplinary:
It requires expertise in information retrieval, artificial
intelligence,
database systems, human-computer interaction, and Internet and Web
technology.
Recommended Web site for further information, and related activities in
this research domain:
Topics
of the Series
All topics related to R&D of intelligent information agents are
covered by the CIA workshop series. These topics include but are not
limited to
- Systems and Applications of Information Agents
- Architectures of information agents.
- Prototypes and fielded systems of information agents.
- Recommender systems; collaborative cases.
- Issues of programming information agents.
- Advanced Theories of Collaboration
- Social filtering, cooperative search, group forming and
negotiation, etc.
- Cooperation in real-time and open environments.
- Self-organising information agent systems.
- Capability-based mediation between information agents.
- Collaboration in peer-to-peer networks.
- Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery
- Knowledge discovery by (systems of) information agents;
collaborative cases.
- Agent-based distributed data mining.
- Distributed information retrieval and Web mining.
- Information Agents for the Semantic Web
- Agent-based service discovery and composition.
- Agent-based service matchmaking and brokering in the Semantic
Web.
- Agent-based distributed ontology learning.
- Mobile Information Agents
- Mobile information agents for distributed information
retrieval: Prototypes, experiments, case studies, and experiences.
- Architectures, environments and languages for engineering
mobile information agents.
- Cooperative mobile information agents.
- Information Agents and Ubiquitous Computing
- Information agents in ubicomp environments: Applications,
surveys; collaborative cases.
- Rational Information Agents for E-Business
- Models of economic rationality and trust to be applied to
information agents for e-business.
- Issues of privacy of communication, data security, and
jurisdiction for agent-mediated trading.
- Coalition and team formation algorithms.
- Intelligent Interfaces for Information Agents
- Human-agent interaction for (systems of) information agents.
- Life-like characters and avatars.
- Information agents for/applied to digital cities.
- Advanced, personalized 3-d visualizations of information
spaces.
- Agent-based Web usage mining
- Personalisation; collaborative cases.
- Adaptive Information Agents
- Adaptive information retrieval; collaborative cases.
- Reasoning with imperfect information: collaborative cases.
- Multi-strategy and meta-learning for cooperative information
agents.
Events of the Series
12th
International Workshop CIA-2008
Prague,
Czech Republic, September 10 - 12, 2008
- Location: CTU Czech
University of Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
- Proceedings: Springer,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNAI
- In cooperation
with:
- ACM
SIGART, ACM SIGWeb, ACM SIGKDD
- Sponsors:
- CTU Prague
- IEEE FIPA
- Whitestein
Technologies
- Rockwell Automation
- Certicon Corp.
- DERI Galway
- Invited Speakers:
- Manfred Hauswirth
(DERI Galway, Ireland)
- Katia Sycara
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- James Lawton (US Air
Force Research, USA)
- Heiko Schuldt (U
Basel, Switzerland)
- Sascha Ossowski (U
Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
- Participants: ; Submissions: 38; Accepted: 19;
Rate: 50%
11th
International Workshop CIA-2007
Delft,
The Netherlands, September 19 - 21, 2007
- Location: Delft
University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Proceedings: Springer,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNAI 4676
- In cooperation
with:
- ACM SIGArt, ACM
SIGWeb, ACM SIGKDD, ACM SIGCHI
- Sponsors:
- TU Delft ICT
Research
- Whitestein
Technologies
- IEEE FIPA
- SIKS
- BNVKI
- Invited Speakers:
- Alun
Preece (U Aberdeen, UK)
- John-Jules
Meyer (U Utrecht, NL)
- Jaap van den Herik (U
Maastricht, NL)
- Catholijn Jonker (TU
Delft, NL)
- Participants: 32; Submissions: 38; Accepted: 19;
Rate: 50%
10th
International Workshop CIA-2006
Edinburgh, UK, September 11 - 13, 2006
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from the CIA 2006 workshop in Edinburgh
- Location: University of
Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Proceedings: Springer,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNAI 4149
- In cooperation
with:
- Global Grid Forum
- ACM SIGART, ACM
SIGKDD, ACM SIGWeb
- Sponsors:
- Whitestein
Technologies, Switzerland
- U Edinburgh/CISA -
Centre for Intelligent Systems and Their Applications, UK
- National e-Science
Institute, UK
- AISB, UK
- IEEE FIPA
- Invited Speakers
- Frank van Harmelen
(VU Amsterdam, NL)
- Mike Huhns (U
South Carolina, USA)
- Austin
Tate (U Edinburgh, UK)
- Jeff Rosenschein
(Hebrew U, Israel)
- Participants: 42; Submissions: 57; Accepted: 29;
Rate: 51%
9th International
Workshop CIA-2005
Koblenz, Germany, September 11 - 13, 2005
as integral part of the MATES-2005
conference:
- Location: University of
Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany
- Proceedings: Springer,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNAI 3550
- Co-located with: 28th
German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2005)
- In cooperation
with:
- GI German Special
Interest Group on Distributed
Artificial Intelligence (VKI)
- Sponsors:
- German
Computer Society (GI)
- Siemens
AG, Germany
- Whitestein
Technologies, Switzerland
- AgentLink
III, European Coordination Action for Agent-Based Computing
- Invited Speakers
- Karl
Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland)
- Luc
Steels (VU Brussels, Belgium)
- Steffen
Staab (U Koblenz, Germany)
- John-Jules C. Meyer
(U Utrecht, The Netherlands)
- Participants: 40; Submissions: 54; Accepted: 24;
Rate: 44%
8th International Workshop
CIA-2004,
Erfurt, Germany, September 27 -
29. 2004
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from the CIA
2004 workshop in Erfurt
- Location: Fair
& Congress Center, Erfurt, Germany
- Proceedings: Springer,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNAI 3191
- Co-located with:
- In cooperation
with: ACM SIGART, ACM SIGWeb
- Sponsors:
- tranSIT
GmbH, Germany
- Whitestein
Technologies, Switzerland
- DMR Consulting, Spain
- Spanish Association
for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA)
- AgentLink III, EU FP6
IST Coordinating Action
- Invited Speakers
- Hillol Kargupta (USA)
- Terry
Payne (UK)
- Participants: 31; Submissions: 57; Accepted: 21;
Rate: 37%
7th International Workshop
CIA-2003,
Helsinki, Finland, August 27 - 29, 2003
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from the CIA 2003 workshop
in Helsinki
- Location: Sonera
Conference Center, Helsinki, Finland
- Proceedings: Springer,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNAI 2782
- Co-located with: 4th
Agentcities Information Days
- In cooperation
with: ACM SIGART
- Sponsors:
- TeliaSonera A/B,
Finland
- Elsevier Science, The
Netherlands
- NOKIA, Finland
- Whitestein
Technologies, Switzerland
- Spanish Association
for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA)
- Invited Speakers
- Sandip Sen (U Tulsa,
USA)
- Manolis Koubarakis
(TU Creete, Greece)
- Participants: 56; Submissions: 60; Accepted: 23;
Rate: 38%
6th
International Workshop CIA-2002,
Madrid, Spain, September 18 - 20, 2002
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from the CIA 2002 Workshop in Madrid
- Location: Universidad
de Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain
- Proceedings: Springer,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNAI 2446
- In cooperation
with: ACM COMM; INRIA
- Sponsors:
- Spanish Ministry for
Science and Technology
- Universidad de Rey
Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain
- Elsevier Science, The
Netherlands
- Whitestein
Technologies, Switzerland
- IBM Research
Center, Israel
- Swiss Life AG,
Switzerland
- AutoDesk Inc., USA
- AgentLink II
- Invited Speakers
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates
(U of Chile, Chile)
- Kenji Mase (ATR Media
IS Labs, Japan)
- Pablo Noriega (CSIC,
Spain)
- Fausto Giunchiglia
(IRST, Italy)
- Participants: 40; Submissions: 59; Accepted: 27;
Rate: 46%
5th
International Workshop CIA-2001,
Modena, Italy, September 6 - 8, 2001
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from the CIA 2001 workshop in Modena
- Location: Universita de
Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
- Proceedings: Springer,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNAI 2182
- In cooperation
with: 28th Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB)
- Sponsors:
- Nokia Research
Center, USA
- Swiss Life AG,
Switzerland
- NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center, USA
- AutoDesk Inc., USA
- OTConsulting, Italy
- IFMAS International
Foundation for Multi-Agent System
- Invited Speakers
- Matthias Jarke
(RWTH Aachen, Germany)
- Cristiano
Castelfranchi (U Siena, Italy)
- Tim Finin (UMBC, USA)
- Gian-Pietro Picco
(Italy)
- Yasuhiko Kitamura
(Osaka U, Japan)
- Participants: 46; Submissions: 63; Accepted: 30;
Rate: 48%
4th International Workshop CIA-2000
Boston, USA, July 4 - 7, 2000
- Location: The Boston
Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, USA
- Co-located with: 4th
International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS)
- Proceedings: Springer,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNAI 1860
- Sponsors:
- NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center, USA
- Swiss Life AG,
Switzerland
- IFMAS International
Foundation for Multi-Agent System
- Invited Speakers
- Elisabeth Andre
(DFKI, Germany)
- R.W. Picard (MIT
Media Lab, USA)
- Jeffrey O. Kephart
(IBM Thomas Watson, USA)
- Paul Davidsson (U
Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden)
- Frank Dignum
(U Utrecht, The Netherlands)
- Richard J. Doyle
(NASA Goddard Space FLight Center, USA)
- Participants: 67; Submissions: 44; Accepted: 23;
Rate: 52%
3rd International
Workshop CIA-1999,
Uppsala, Sweden, July 31 - August 2, 1999
- Location: University of
Uppsala, Computer Science Department, Uppsala, Sweden
- Co-located with:
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 1999),
Stockholm, Sweden
- Proceedings: Springer,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNAI 1652
- Sponsors:
- Deutsche Telekom AG,
Berkom GmbH Berlin, Germany
- George Mason
University, USA
- Daimler-Chysler AG,
R&D Berlin, Germany
- Active Online Systems
Ltd. London, UK
- AgentLink ESPRIT NoE
for Agent-Based Computing
- Invited Speakers:
- Walt Truszkowski
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
- Toru Ishida (Japan)
- Erol Gelenbe
(Arizona State U, USA)
- Larry Kerschberg
(George Mason U, USA)
- Mike Wellman (U
Michigan, USA)
- Mike P. Papazoglou (U
Tilburg, The Netherlands)
- Amit Sheth
(University of Georgia, USA)
- Pete Langley
(DaimlerChrysler Research & Technology, USA)
- Mike Lewis (U
Pittsburgh, USA)
- Participants: 42; Submissions: 47; Accepted: 26;
Rate: 55%
2nd International
Workshop CIA-1998
Paris, France, July 4 - 7, 1998
- Location: Centre George
Pompidu, Paris, France
- Co-located with:
Agents' World Conference (ICMAS 1998)
- Proceedings: Springer,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNAI 1435
- Sponsors:
- Daimler-Benz
AG Stuttgart, Germany
- George Mason
University, USA
- In cooperation
with:
- German Computer
Society (GI) Technical Research Groups on
- Distributed
Artificial Intelligence (VKI)
- Database Systems
- Information
Retrieval
- German National
Research Center for Mathematics and Data Management (GMD)
- Institute for
Integrated Publication and Information Systems
- Invited Speakers:
- Edmund H. Durfee (U
Michigan, USA)
- H. Van Dyke Parunak
(ITI, USA)
- Michael N. Huhns (U
South Carolina, USA)
- Takashi Kido
(NTT Japan)
- Tuomas Sandholm
(Washington U, USA)
- Katia P. Sycara
(Carnegie Mellon U, USA)
- Robert Tolksdorf
(Technical U of Berlin, Germany)
- Participants: 100; Submissions: 54; Accepted: 24;
Rate: 44%
1st International
Workshop CIA-1997
Kiel, Germany, February 26 - 28, 1997
- Location:
Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Computer Science Department,
Kiel, Germany
- Proceedings: Springer,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNAI 1202
- Sponsors:
- German Research
Foundation (DFG)
- German Computer
Society (GI)
- Technical Faculty of
the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
- In cooperation
with:
- German Computer
Society (GI) Technical Research Groups on
- Distributed
Artificial Intelligence (VKI)
- Methods for
Informtion Systems Development (EMISA)
- Invited Speakers:
- Michael Wooldridge
(Mitsubishi Electric Digital Library Group, London, UK)
- S. Misbah Deen (DAKE
Centre, University of Keele, UK)
- Sonia Bergamaschi
(Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
- Hans-Dieter Burkhard
(Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
- Larry Kerschberg
(George Mason University, USA)
- Gottfried Vossen
(University of Münster, Germany)
- Participants: 52; Submissions: 41; Accepted: 22;
Rate: 54%
Awards of the Series
Since 2001, the series issues a Best Paper Award, and a System
Innovation Award, to acknowledge and further stimulate highly
innovative research and development, respectively, in the domain of
intelligent information agents.
Nominations for the best paper awards are to be done by the
program committee in due course of the reviewing process; for the best
paper award only
submissions to the workshop are eligible for nomination. Nominations for the system innovation award can
be placed either by the extended organisational board of the workshop
(PC, chairs, sponsors) concerning some regular
paper submitted to the workshop, or by the author(s)/developer(s)
themselves
via an explicit request for nomination sent to one of the
co-chairs
of the workshop. Each nominee is requested to demonstrate a running
prototype of the nominated system at the workshop to all participants
and the jury. Explicit request by author/developer (no need to submit a
regular paper)
is via submission of a brief description of the considered system of
information agents (max. 4 pages, informal, including figures,
references) in terms
of its (1) core functionality, main techniques used, and (publicly
available reference to) experimental results, and (2) a brief summary
of the innovative features of your system in comparison to other
existing systems. In addition, each submission including such a
description may also be nominated by the extended organisational board.
Winners of the CIA Best Paper Award:
2007
(LNAI 4676)
"An Agent Architecture for Hybrid P2P Free-Text Search."
Avi Rosenfeld, Claudia Goldman, Gal Kaminka and Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan
U, Israel)
2006
(LNAI 4149)
"Learning to
Negotiate Optimally in Non-Stationary Environments"
Vidya Narayanan, Nicholas R. Jenning (U Southampton, UK)
2005
(LNAI 3550) Joint Best Paper Award with MATES 2005 Conference
"BSCA-P:
Privacy Preserving Coalition Formation"
Bastian Blankenburg, Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
2004 (LNAI 3191)
"A
Probabilistic Approach
to Predict Peers' Performance in P2P Networks"
Zoran Despotovic, Karl Aberer
(EPFL, Switzerland)
2003 (LNAI 2782)
“Ostensive Automatic Schema Mapping for Taxonomy-based
Peer-to-Peer
Systems”
by Yannis Tzitzikas and Carlo Meghini (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
dell’ Informazione;
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy)
2002 (LNAI 2446)
"Acquiring an Optimal Amount of
Information for Choosing from Alternatives"
by Rina Azoulay-Schwartz and Sarit Kraus (Israel, USA)
2001 (LNAI 2182)
"Optimality and Risk in Purchase at
Multiple Auctions"
by Onn Shehory (IBM Research, Israel)
Winners of the CIA System Innovation Award:
2008
GENIUS: General Environment for Negotiation with Intelligent multi-purpose Usage Simulation.
Developed by Koen V. Hindriks, Catholijn M. Jonker, and Dmytro Tykhonov (The Netherlands).
2007
MAGARRO:
A MultiAgent System for Physically based Rendering Optimization.
Developed by Carlos Gonzalez-Morcillo, Gerhard Weiss, Luis
Jiménez, David Vallejo,
and Javier Albusac (Spain)
2006
Miracle: Market-Inspired
Approach to Collaborative Learning
Developed By Jan Tozicka, Michal Jakobm Michal Pechoucek (TU Prague,
Czech Republic)
2005
Bibster:
A
Semantics-based Bibliographic P2P System.
Developed by
Jeen Broekstra, Marc Ehrig, Peter
Haase, Frank van Harmelen, Maarten Menken, Peter Mika, Michal
Plechawski, Pawel
Pyszlak, Björn Schnizler, Ronny Siebes, Steffen Staab, Christoph
Tempich (U Karlsruhe, VU Amsterdam)
Special Price "Best Innovation/Effort
Relation":
GruSMA:
An Agent-Based Knowledge Acquisition Platform.
Developed by
David Sánchez Ruenes, David Isern, Antonio Moreno (Spain)
2004
A-Globe:
Agent Platform with
Inaccessibility and Mobility Support
Developed by David
Sislák, Milan Rollo, Michal Pechoucek (CTU, Czech
Republic)
2003
ACCESS:
An Agent System for Ubiquitous Service Delivery
Developed by Conor Muldoon, Gregory O' Hare, Donnacha Phelan, Robin
Strahan, and Rem Collier (University College of Dublin, Ireland)
2002
First
prize:
VPC:
Virtual Private Community System,
Developed by T. Iwao, M. Okada, K. Kawashima, S. Matsumura, H. Kanda,
S. Sakamoto, T. Kainuma, M. Amamiya (Fujitsu, Japan),
and
Mars&Venus:
Competitive Information Recommendation System,
Developed by Y. Kitamura, T. Sakamoto, S. Tatsumi (Osaka U, Japan)
Third prize:
Tourists on the Move,
Developed by M. Laukkanen, H. Helin, H. Laamanen (Sonera Corporation,
Finland)
2001
First prize:
LEAP -
Enabling FIPA agents on small devices.
Developed by Federico Bergenti et al. (University of Parma, Italy)
Second prize:
Towards efficient and reliable agent communication in wireless
environments.
Developed by Heikki Helin et al. (Sonera Corporation, Finland)
For more information on this workshop series,
sponsorships,
and hosting an event of the series,
please contact:
Dr. Matthias Klusch
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Phone:
+49-681-302-5297
Fax:
+49-681-302-2235
E-Mail: klusch@dfki.de
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