CIKM Workshop on
INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AGENTS
held in conjunction with the
Third International Conference on Information
and Knowledge Management (CIKM'94)
Friday, December 2, 1994
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, Maryland
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Sponsored by: ACM SIGART and ACM SIGIR, in cooperation with: AAAI,
NIST, UMBC, NSF, Purdue University, and Rutgers University.
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ADVANCE PROGRAM
8:00 - 8:30 Coffee
8:30 - 8:45 Welcome, Introduction
Tim Finin (UMBC)
8:45 - 10:15 Session One, D. McKay (Unisys)
"Agent Amplified Communication",
Henry Kautz and Bart Selman (AT&T)
"Heterogeneous Information Systems Integration: An Agent
Messaging Approach", Sankar Virdakriswaren (Cryztaliz)
"SodaBot: A Software Agent Environment and Construction
System", Michael Coen (MIT)
DISCUSSION
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session Two, B. Grosof (IBM)
"Transportable Agents",
Keith Kotay and David Kotz (Dartmouth)
"Incorporation Emotional Agents into the Cooperation
Mechanism of the Accord System", Michael Gray and D.
Patrick Studdard (American University)
"Agent Based Software Engineering" , Michael
Genesereth (Stanford)
DISCUSSION
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 Session Three, M. Coriat (Universiti Paris)
"An Endogenous Fitness Paradigm for Adaptive Information
Agents", Filippo Menczer, Wolfram Willuhn, and Rik Bellew (UCSD)
"VISITOR-HOSTER: Toward an Intelligent Electronic Secretary",
Katia Sycara and Dajun Zeng (CMU)
"Autonomous Agents in Inter-Organization Project Management",
Jeremy Pitt, Matthew Anderson and Jim Cunningham (Imperial College)
DISCUSSION
2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 4:15 Session Four, Yigal Arens (USC/ISI)
"Efficient Query Processing for Information Gathering Agents",
Craig Knoblock (ISI) and Alon Levy (AT&T)
"Agent Collaboration as a Resource Discovery Technique",
Ellen Voorhees (Siemens)
"Networked Information Retrieval as Distributed Problem Solving",
Tim Oates, M.V. Nagendra Prasad and Victor Lesser (UMASS)
Discussion
4:15 - 5:15 Panel: Agent Communication and Programming Languages
W. Davis, M. Genesereth, Y. Labrou, D. McKay
5:15 - 5:30 Wrap-up
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Yigal Arens (USC/ISI)
Phil Cohen (SRI/OGI)
Edmund Durfee (Michigan)
Oren Etzioni (Washington)
Tim Finin (Maryland, UMBC)
Michael Genesereth (Stanford)
Michael Huhns (MCC)
Yannis Labrou (Maryland, UMBC)
James Mayfield (Maryland, UMBC)
Don McKay (Unisys)
Yoav Shoham (Stanford)
Jay Weber (EIT)
Michael Wooldridge (Manchester)
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REGISTRATION FORM
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Please complete this form (TYPE or PRINT), and return with your payment to:
Dr. E.K. Park
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Note that CIKM-94 will be held at NIST and Hilton Hotel is about 1 mile
away from NIST. Transportation from Hilton/NIST/Hilton will be available
for CIKM-94/Workshop attendees.
HOTEL:
We have arranged a block of rooms at the Gaithersburg Hilton Hotel,
620 Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, (301) 977-8900, or
1-800-599-5111, Fax: (301) 869-8597. Please make your hotel
reservation early. To obtain special conference rate (rate is U.S.
$70.00 per night for Single or Double), you must mention that you are
attending the CIKM-94 conference in November/December 1994. Cut-off
date for guaranteed guest room reservations is November 14, 1994.
Transportation from Hilton/NIST/Hilton will be available for CIKM-94
attendees.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
For further information regarding local arrangements, contact the CIKM
Local Arrangements Chair: Elizabeth Fong at NIST, (301) 975-3250, Fax:
(301) 948-6213, E-mail: fong@speckle.ncsl.nist.gov
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