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Matthias Klusch
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Special Issue of the International Journal on
Cooperative Information Systems
INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AGENTS:
THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
Guest Editor:
Matthias Klusch
Deduction and Multi-Agent Systems Lab
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Ltd., Germany
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http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/JCISspecial.html
IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission of Manuscripts: NOVEMBER 25, 1999
- Notification of Acceptance: MARCH 30, 2000
- Publication of Special Issue due to: End of the year 2000
SCOPE & TOPICS
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This special issue of the International Journal on Cooperative Information
Systems is devoted to advances in theory and applications of intelligent
information agents.
Roughly speaking, an information agent is a computational software entity
that has access to one or multiple, heterogeneous and geographically distributed
information sources; it pro-actively searches for and maintains relevant
information on behalf of users or other agents preferably in a just-in-time fashion.
Such an agent is supposed to satisfy one or multiple of following requirements:
* Information acquisition and management, i.e.,
it may monitor, update, and provide transparent access to one or many different
information sources, retrieve, extract, analyze and filter data (including semi-structured
or even unstructured data).
* Information synthesis and presentation, that is, it is able to integrate heterogeneous
data and to provide unified (and multi-dimensional) views on data.
* Intelligent user assistance by being able, for example to dynamically adapt
to user preferences, any kind of changes in information and network environment.
It may provide convenient individual interactive assistance for everyday business on
the Internet such as a life-like character, recommend sources and future work steps, etc.
In other words, the agent helps to manage and overcome the difficulties associated with
information overload. In part, there are many approaches and implemented solutions available
from advanced databases, knowledge-bases and distributed information systems technology to
meet some of these demands. The effective and efficient access to information
on the Internet and Web has become a critical research area.
Information agents technology emerged as part of the more general intelligent software
agent technology around seven years ago mainly as a response to the increasing challenges
of the cyberspace from both, the technological and human user perspective.
It is an inherently interdisciplinary technology encompassing approaches, methods and tools
from different research disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Advanced Database
and Knowledge Base Systems, Distributed Information Systems, Information Retrieval,
Cognitive Sciences and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Today, it can be seen as one of
the key technologies for the actual and future Internet and worldwide Web.
Topics are but not limited to:
* Architectures of (Systems of) Information Agents
General and specific architectures of information agents in different
settings and environments.
Approaches for communication and collaboration between (systems)
of information agents. Service matchmaking and brokering.
Inter-Agent Communication languages.
* Advanced Database and Knowledge-Base Technology
Interoperability in large-scaled, and uncertain information environments.
Application of Techniques for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in
open, distributed and dynamically changing environments.
* Methods of Adaptation and Learning for Systems of Information Agents
Methods for automated uncertain reasoning for information agents.
Computation and action under uncertainty and limited resources.
Performance and measurement of adaptation of single agent or multiagent
systems in uncertain information environments.
* Mobility and Issues of Security in the Internet
Architectures, Environments and Languages for Mobile and Secure
Information Agents and Servers.
Secure agent execution and protection of data servers from malicious agents.
Cooperating Information Agents in wearable computers, hand-held and/or
satellite-based control devices.
* Rational Information Agents and Electronic Commerce
Agent-Based Marketplaces, Coalition Formation, Auctions, Negotiations.
Economic models of cooperative problem solving among rational information
agents in open information environments.
Methods for prevention and detection of lying rational information agents.
Electronic Commerce with incomplete and uncertain informations.
Standards for privacy of communication, security, and jurisdiction for
agent-mediated deals.
* Human-Agent Interaction
Synthetic Agents, believable avatars, and 3-D multimedia-based
representation of user information spaces in the Internet.
Models and Implementation of Advanced Interfaces for conversation and
dialogue among Information Agents and Users.
* Systems and Applications
Systems and Applications of multiple collaborating Information Agents on
the Internet.
PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT
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The length of the contribution should not exceed 20 pages.
For guidelines on manuscript preparation see the Web site of
the International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems at:
http://www.wspc.com.sg/journals/ijcis/ijcis.html
SUBMISSION
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Manuscripts are to be submitted by (electronic) mail to the Guest
Editor (see below).
Authors may suggest the appropriate persons to review/referee their
paper, however, the Editor need not necessarily take up the suggestion.
Authors may request that their identity be kept unknown to the referee.
Camera-ready manuscripts are to be prepared according to the instructions
provided, preferably using LATEX or TEX.
Please submit your manuscript by
E-Mail (printable POSTSCRIPT - A4 format- AND the original text file) to
XOR
Mail (5 Hard Copies) to
Matthias Klusch
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbruecken, Germany.
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