From: lockheed@hudson.stanford.edu (Lockheed)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: CONF:  CFP, Intelligent/Cooperative Info Systems (Agents)
Date: 23 Aug 92 00:01:31 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Originator: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu


Crossposted from news.announce.conferences


                        CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Track on Issues on Cooperating Heterogeneous Intelligent
Agents, as part of the First International Conference on Intelligent
and Cooperative Information Systems (ICICIS)

Held in cooperation with: IEEE CS, ACM SIGART, AAAI, IFIP TC-12, NGI

I. Description

The purpose of this call is to solicit papers for a special track,
that will consist of a series of sessions on issues relating to
heterogeneous intelligent agents that cooperate during
problem-solving.  Heterogeneous intelligent systems can differ in
their internal structures, capabilities, and purposes.  Of primary
interest are approaches and techniques for overcoming limitations that
are introduced through the heterogeneity of information-storage and
problem-solving agents.

II. Topics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1. Studies of the types of cooperation and negotiation that can be
achieved by heterogeneous systems.

2. Knowledge-level analyses of the components that belong to such
agents, and formalisms for representing this knowledge.

3. Frameworks for combining independent AI systems to enable them
collectively to solve more complex problems.

4. Issues related to the integration of heterogeneous database systems
as information providers in problem-solving environments.

5. Intelligent computer environments that facilitate cooperation among
people of diverse abilities during a problem-solving process, including
developments in intelligent groupware systems.

6. Ontologies for integrating heterogeneous agents.

III. Format

Contributions should be submitted in double spaced format, not
exceeding the length of 5000 words.  Please indicate on the first page
that the paper is a submission to the special track on Issues on
Cooperating Heterogeneous Intelligent Agents.

European Chairman               American Chairman
Gunter Schlageter               Michael Huhns
FernUniv. Hagen                 MCC
Praktische Informatik I         3500 West Balcones Center Dr.
P.O. Box 940                    Austin TX 78759
Feithstrasse 140                USA
D-5800 Hagen                    huhns@mcc.com
Germany
schlageter@dhafeu11.bitnet

                        Far East Chairman
                        Mike Papazoglou
                        QUT School of Information Systems
                        Faculty of Information Technology
                        GPO Box 2434
                        Brisbane QLD 4001
                        Australia
                        mikep@snow.fit.qut.edu.au

For information on the special track please contact:

Evangelos Simoudis
Lockheed AI Center
3251 Hanover Street
O/96-20 B/254F
Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA
simoudis@titan.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com
(415) 354-5271

For further information and/or enquiries about the conference please
contact the above mentioned addresses or write to
ICICIS@fac.fbk.eur.nl

IV. Important Dates
Papers submissions due: October 19, 1992
Notification of Acceptance: January 10, 1993
Camera-ready copies: February 20, 1993.

All accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Press in the
Conference Proceedings.
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the
International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information
Systems.

General Conference Chair
------------------------
Mike Papazoglou (QUT, Australia)

Program Chairs
--------------
Michael Huhns (MCC, TX),
Guenther Schlageter (Fern Univ. Hagen)

Organizing Committe and Finance Chair
------------------------------------
Louis Marinos (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam)

Local Arrangements Chair
-----------------------
Jos Schreinemakers (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam),

Publications Chair
------------------
Patrick Bobbie (Univ. of Florida)

Program Committee
-----------------
Bruce Blum (John Hopkins Univ.),
Nick Bourbakis (SUNY, Binghamton, NY),
Patrick Bobbie (Univ. of Florida),
Ron Brachman (AT&T Bell Labs),
David Bree (Univ. of Manchester),
Michael Brodie (GTE Labs Inc. MA),
Edward Durfee (Univ. of Michigan),
Les Gasser (USC, Los Angeles),
Jaap v. d. Herik (Univ. of Limburg, Holland),
John Hughes (Univ. of Ulster),
Matthias Jarke (Univ. of Aachen),
Yahiko Kambayashi (Univ. of Koyoto),
Dimitris Karagiannis (FAW - Ulm),
Stefan Kirn (Fern Univ. Hagen),
Bernd Kraemer (GMD, Bonn),
Steven Laufmann (US West Advanced Technologies),
Frederick Lochovsky (Univ. of Hong-Kong),
Vince Lum (Naval Postgraduate School),
Frank Manola (GTE Labs Inc. MA),
Louis Marinos (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam),
Robert Meersman (Kath. Univ. Braband, Tilburg),
John Mylopoulos (Univ. of Toronto),
Moira Norrie (Univ. of Glasgow),
Marek Rusinkiewicz (Univ. of Houston),
Jos Schreinemakers (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam),
Timos Sellis (Univ.  of Maryland),
Susan Urban (Arizona State Univ.),
Joe Urban (Arizona State Univ.),
John Vittal (GTE-Labs Inc. MA),
Ben Wah (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana),
Jay Weber (Lockheed Labs, Palo Alto),
Keith Werkman (IBM, Owengo Labs),
John Zeleznikow (La Trobe Univ. Australia),
Noshihiko Yoshida (Kuyshu Univ. Japan)

Organizing Committee
Chairman:
Louis Marinos (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam)
Publicity Chairman:
Nick Bourbakis (SUNY, Binghamton, NY)
Local Organization:
Ruud Smit (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam),
Joyce Bokhoven (Erasmus Forum)
Conference Office:
Erasmus Forum
Burg. Oudlaan 50
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Organization:
AI-Lab, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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