FRIDAY, July 7, 2000
FRIDAY, July 7, 2000
| 9:00 | Welcome |
| Session 1
Personal Information Agents |
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| 9:15 - 10:00 | Invited Talk:
Life-Like Synthetic Characters in the Internet: The Future Landscape Elisabeth Andre DFKI German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Germany) |
| Coffee Break | |
| 10:20 - 11:15 | Invited Talk:
Affective Computing for Future Agents Rosalind W. Picard MIT Media Laboratory, Media Arts and Sciences (USA) |
| Session 2
Rational Information Agents for E-Commerce (1) |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 | Bilateral negotiation with incomplete and uncertain information:
A decision-theoretic approach using a model of the opponent C. Mudgal, J. Vassileva (Canada) |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | On ensuring lower bounds of negotiation results
O. Görlitz, R. Neubert, W. Benn (Germany) |
| Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Invited Talk:
Economic Incentives for Information Agents Jeff O. Kephart IBM Thomas Watson Research Center (USA) |
| Coffee Break | |
| Session 3
Societies of Information Agents |
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| 15:20 - 15:50 | Small-world reputation management in online communities
B. Yu, M.P. Singh (USA) |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | A cybernetic approach to the modeling of agent communities
W. Truszkowski, J. Karlin (USA) |
| 16:20 - 16:50 | Role of acquaintance models in agent-based production planning system
M. Pechoucek, V. Marik, O. Stepankova (Czech Republic) |
| Short Break | |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | Invited Talk:
Emergent Societies of Information Agents Paul Davidsson University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, SoC (Sweden) |
SATURDAY, July 8, 2000
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Invited Talk:
Inspiration for Future Autonomous Space Systems Richard J. Doyle, Center for Space Mission Information and Software Systems, JPL (USA) |
| Coffee Break | |
| Session 4
Agent-Based Information Gathering and Mediation |
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| 10:20 - 10:50 | Knowledge agents on the Web
Y. Aridor, D. Carmel, R. Lempel, A. Soffer, Y.S. Maarek (Israel) |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | ICEBERG: Exploiting context in information brokering agents
C.M. Jonker, A. Vollebregt (Netherlands) |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | A dynamic access planning method for information mediator
Y. Kitamura, T. Noda, S. Tatsumi (Japan) |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Applying agents to bioinformatics in GeneWeaver
K. Bryson, M. Joy, M. Luck, D. Jones (UK) |
| Lunch Break | |
| Session 5
Issues of Communication and Collaboration |
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| 14:00 - 15:00 | Invited Talk:
Agent Communication and Cooperative Information Agents Frank Dignum, TU Eindhoven (Netherlands) |
| Coffee Break | |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Towards information agent interoperability
S. Haustein, S. Luedecke (Germany) |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Automatic ontology construction for a multiagent-based software
gathering service
E. Mena, A. Illarramendi, A. Goni (Spain) |
| 16:20 - 16:50 | Exploiting the ontological qualities of web resources:
Task-driven agents structure knowledge for problem solving L. Crow, N. Shadbolt (UK) |
| Open Discussion | |
SUNDAY, July 9, 2000
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Invited Talk:
Mobile Information Agents for Cyberspace - State of the Art and Visions Todd Papaioannou Loughborough University, MSI Research Institute (UK) |
| Coffee Break | |
| Session 6
Design and Implementation of Information Agents |
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| 10:30 - 11:30 | Invited Talk:
Design of Collaborative Information Agents Jan Treur, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Short Demonstrations of Information Agent Systems Prototypes:
(in a different room with Internet connection available) Knowledge Agent D. Carmel (Israel)
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| Lunch Break | |
| Session 7
Rational Information Agents for E-Commerce (2) |
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| 14:00 - 14:30 | Task assignment in multiagent systems based on Vickrey-type
auctioning and
leveled commitment contracting F. Brandt, W. Brauer, G. Weiss (Germany) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Auction-based agent negotiation via programmable tuple
spaces
G. Cabri, L. Leonardi, F. Zambonelli (Italy) |
| Coffee Break | |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Towards an experience based negotiation agent
W.Y. Wong, D.M. Zhang, M. Kara-Ali (Australia) |
| Open Discussion | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Closing of the Workshop |
Please note that this time schedule is preliminary and may change.