event: Twelfth International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2008)

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Twelfth International Workshop on
Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2008)
September 10 - 12, 2008
Czech Technical University
Prague, Czech Republic

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http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2008

Co-sponsored by

Whitestein Technologies
IEEE FIPA
Rockwell Automation
CERTICON
CTU Prague

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of papers: MARCH 24, 2008

Notification of authors: May 25, 2008
Camera-ready papers: June 22, 2008

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AIMS & SCOPE
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An intelligent information agent is a computational software entity
that is capable of accessing one or multiple, heterogeneous and
distributed information sources, proactively searching for,
mediating, and maintaining relevant information or services on behalf
of its human users, or other collaborating agents, at any time and anywhere.
One key challenge of the development of intelligent and cooperative
information system is to balance the autonomy of networked data,
information, and knowledge sources with the potential payoff of
leveraging them by the appropriate use of such agents.
Research on intelligent information agents and systems is inherently
cross disciplinary covering themes from domains such as AI, HCI,
Internet and Web technologies, information systems, information
retrieval, P2P computing, and multiagent system technologies.

The objective of the international workshop series on cooperative
information agents (CIA), since its establishment in 1997, is to
provide a small but distinguished, interdisciplinary forum for
researchers, programmers, and managers to get informed about, present,
and discuss latest high quality results in research and development
of agent-based intelligent and cooperative information systems, and
applications for the Internet and Web.

INVITED TALKS
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by Manfred Hauswirth (DERI Galway, Ireland),
James H. Lawton (US Air Force Research, USA) a.o.