Machine Learning List: Vol. 15, No. 16
Saturday, September 20, 2003
Contents
Meeting Announcements
Feature selection challenge
CFP: CLIMA IV - Deadline Extended
CFP: AI and Robotics Education
Call for Proposals: JHU Summer Workshop on Language Engineering
EuroGP 2004 CFP
WWW2004 Call for Participation
Call for AAAI-04 Workshop proposals
IAS 2004
GECCO 2004 Workshops: Call for proposals
1st CALL FOR PAPERS: AGENT TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
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From: Isabelle Guyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Feature selection challenge
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 10:40:37 -0700
We are organizing a benchmark on feature selection, see:
http://www.nipsfsc.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Deadline: December 1st, 2003.
Discussion of the benchmark results will take place at a one-day NIPS
2003 workshop on feature extraction (December 11-13, 2003, Whistler,
British Columbia, CA), see
http://clopinet.com/isabelle/Projects/NIPS2003/.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: CLIMA IV - Deadline Extended
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:19:19 +0100
CALL FOR PAPERS
CLIMA IV
Fourth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
January 6-7, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/climaIV/index.htm
*** NEW *** Submission Deadline: September 26th
Co-located with the 7th LPNMR and the 8th AIMATH
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From: Lloyd Greenwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: AI and Robotics Education
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:13:00 -0400
Please note that the deadline for submissions is **October 3rd**.
Feel free to contact Lloyd Greenwald at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
any questions.
CALL FOR PAPERS
AAAI Spring Symposium
March 22-24, 2004
Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Accessible Hands-on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education
http://itcsl.cs.drexel.edu/ss2004
Description:
While robot platforms have played a role in artificial intelligence
and robotics education for over 30 years, the cost and size of these
platforms have limited their reach. Recently, low-cost robot
platforms have emerged, extending hands-on educational benefits to a
diverse audience. Examples of the flurry of activity in this area
include competitions and exhibitions at all levels, the availability
of on-line curricula and textbooks, journal special issues, and recent
AAAI workshops on Robotics and Education.
We believe that these low-cost platforms have matured sufficiently to
become a standard tool for teaching artificial intelligence and
robotics to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students.
Furthermore, the accessibility of low-cost platforms introduces the
exciting prospect of expanding artificial intelligence and robotics
educational opportunities outside the classroom, including
non-traditional venues such as museums and do-it-yourself websites.
Providing accessible hands-on learning experiences will help inspire
the next generation of artificial intelligence and robotics scientists
and engineers.
Incorporating hands-on exercises into classroom and public venues
excites students and provides insights that are difficult to achieve
with paper-and-pencil exercises or even simulator programming.
Unfortunately, it is extremely time-consuming to build and manage a
course that includes hands-on robotics. Existing texts and curricular
material stress the use of robots in K-12 education, general
engineering, and general computer science. Courses focusing on AI
topics, however, tend to push low-cost robotic systems up to -- and
sometimes past -- their limits. As a result, the AI community will
benefit from (1) an organized set of tested, refined laboratory
exercises and (2) the insights of educators who have successfully
designed and run such labs.
The purpose of this symposium is to disseminate the experience of
early adapters by gathering instructional material in a form that can
be directly used to build artificial intelligence curricula with
hands-on robotics exercises. Our goal is that this symposium results
in a collection of material that simplifies the process of creating
and running such courses. These materials may be further extended to
engage the public in artificial intelligence and robotics research
activities. We envision the following contributions:
o Step-by-step instructions for using a variety of low-cost platforms
to teach individual artificial intelligence topics;
o Inventory and directions for developing low-cost robot kits and
managing the use of these kits in the classroom; and
o Guidance for curricular development that helps instructors choose
platforms and select step-by-step material to meet their goals.
This symposium will bring together artificial intelligence educators
and robot education practitioners, including curricula creators and
low-cost platform designers. Rather than seeking traditional research
papers, we are especially interested in contributions that provide (1)
step-by-step lab exercises, (2) detailed descriptions of low-cost
platforms and first-hand classroom experiences with them, and/or (3)
discussions of curricular development and the educational impact of
inexpensive hardware within AI-related courses.
We are also interested in contributions that discuss the embedding of
artificial intelligence and robotics education in non-traditional
venues. One example is the JPL Web Interface for TeleScience (WITS)
that provides Internet-based control of planetary lander & rover
missions, via the same tool used by NASA scientists.
The symposium will include demonstrations of step-by-step robot
exercises and video demonstrations of example robotics projects.
Panel sessions will explore how to build a lab-based artificial
intelligence curriculum, and how to balance theoretical and hands-on
material to achieve educational goals without overwhelming the
students or instructor.
Example step-by-step hands-on artificial intelligence and robotics
topics include:
- particle filtering
- neural network learning and inference
- Bayesian network learning and inference
- heuristic search
- planning and scheduling
- constraint satisfaction
- sensor fusion
- hidden Markov model learning and use
- sequential decision models
- resource bounded reasoning
- multi-robot coordination and cooperation
- computer vision, image processing
Example educational papers include:
- ways to approach and evaluate hands-on AI education
- the use of newer low-cost robotic platforms, e.g., PINO
- the future of low-cost platforms
- the embedding of hands-on learning in non-traditional venues
Submissions Guidelines:
Potential participants are asked to submit educational material that
satisfy one or more of the contribution classes described above.
Submissions should be 2-6 pages in length. If you are submitting
assignments or lab exercises please try to follow the following
format:
1. Educational objectives
2. Background material (including reading assignments and study questions)
3. Description of hardware and software required
(platform, sensors, compilers, etc)
4. Step-by-step instruction (including pictures and other media)
5. How to evaluate results
6. Extended discussion for further study
7. Links to web resources, videos
Participants submitting step-by-step labs will be encouraged to
demonstrate their labs either with actual systems or through video
presentations. Please email submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deadline: October 3rd, 2003.
Web Site and Mailing List:
http://itcsl.cs.drexel.edu/ss2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organizers:
Lloyd Greenwald, Drexel University
Zachary Dodds, Harvey Mudd College
Ayanna Howard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sheila Tejada, University of New Orleans
Jerry Weinberg, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
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From: Jason Eisner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Call for Proposals: JHU Summer Workshop on Language Engineering
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:30:07 -0400 (EDT)
CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS
The Center for Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins
University invites research proposals for an NSF-funded Summer
Workshop on Language Engineering, to be held in Baltimore, MD, USA,
from July 6 to August 18, 2004.
The deadline for submitting proposals is October 12, 2003.
You may already have a good idea of the purpose of these six-week
summer workshops, which we have hosted every year since 1995. Each
workshop team (eight or more people) explores a specific research
topic that will help advance the state of the art in some area of
Language Engineering, such as
* Speech recognition
* Trans-lingual information detection and extraction
* Machine translation
* Speech synthesis
* Information retrieval
* Topic detection and tracking
* Text summarization
* Question answering
The research topics explored by teams in previous workshops can serve
as good examples for your proposal
(http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops).
Once the topics are selected, we attempt to bring the best researchers
to the workshop to work on them collaboratively. Authors of
successful proposals will typically be the team leaders. Each topic
brings together a diverse team of leading researchers and students.
The senior participants in the workshop are university professors and
industrial and governmental researchers from widely dispersed
locations. The graduate students are familiar with the field and are
selected in accordance with their demonstrated performance, usually by
the senior researchers. The undergraduates, selected through a
national search, are entering seniors who are new to the field and who
have shown outstanding academic promise.
We are soliciting proposals for research projects from a wide range of
academic and government institutions, as well as from industry. An
independent panel of experts will screen all proposals received by the
deadline for suitability to the workshop goals and format. Results of
this screening will be announced no later than October 24, 2003.
Proposals passing this initial screening will be presented to a
peer-review panel that will meet in Baltimore on November 7 - 9, 2003.
One or two authors of the screened proposals and other leading
researchers will be invited to this meeting. It is expected that the
proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any outstanding
concerns or new ideas. Out of these panel reviews and ensuing
discussion, three research topics will finally be selected for the
2004 workshop.
Would you be interested and available to participate in the 2004
Summer Workshop? If so, we ask that you submit a one-page research
proposal for consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed and
a rough work agenda for the workshop. If your proposal passes the
initial screening, we will invite you to join us for the
organizational meeting in Baltimore (as our guest) for further
discussions aimed at consensus. If a topic in your area of interest
is chosen as one of the three or four to be pursued next summer, we
expect you to be available for participation in the six-week workshop.
We are not asking for an ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a
good-faith understanding that if a project in your area of interest is
chosen, you will want to have an active role in pursuing it.
Proposals may be faxed (410-516-5050), e-mailed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or
sent via regular mail (CLSP, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles
St., Barton 320, Baltimore, MD 21218).
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From: "Lucas, Simon M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EuroGP 2004 CFP
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:56:04 +0100
CALL FOR PAPERS
EuroGP2004
Seventh European Conference on Genetic Programming
Coimbra, Portugal, 5-7 April 2004
The annual EuroGP series are the premier conferences in Europe devoted
entirely to genetic programming. The standard is high with about 40%
of submissions accepted for oral presentation, and reviewing is double
blind. The conference is a mixture of oral presentations and poster
sessions. ALL accepted papers (both orals and posters) are published
as full papers in the proceedings.
EuroGP conferences are always enjoyable and offer good opportunities
for informal contact with fellow researchers in a friendly and relaxed
setting. EuroGP2004 will be held at the University of Coimbra,
Portugal, in conjunction with EvoCOP2004 and EvoWorkshops2004.
High quality papers are sought on topics strongly related to genetic
programming, ranging from theoretical work to innovative
applications.
Topics include:
* Theoretical developments
* Empirical studies of GP performance and behaviour
* New algorithms, representations and operators
* Applications of GP to real-life problems
* Hybrid architectures including GP components
* Comparisons with other machine learning or program-induction
techniques
* New libraries and implementations
* Linear GP
* Evolution of other tree or graph structures (e.g. VRML)
* Evolution of various classes of machine: e.g. cellular automata,
finite state machines, pushdown automata, turing machines
* Object-oriented genetic programming
Location
Coimbra is a city rich in history and perhaps the oldest seat of
learning in Portugal with a University founded in 1290. The
University lies in the heart of the old town with majestic views over
the Rio Mondego. Coimbra is located in the centre of Portugal with
excellent rail connections to Lisbon and Porto
Submission procedure
Submissions should be a maximum of ten A4 pages and they should be
sent in zipped postscript format. Papers must conform to the Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science format:
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
The reviewing process is double blind. Authors should remove their
names from submitted papers, and should take reasonable care that
their identity is disguised. References to own work can be included in
the paper, but should be referred to in the third person.
It is very important that the email accompanying submission should
state ALL the authors, including ALL their email addresses. To avoid
problems with electronic delivery, papers should be emailed to BOTH of
the program chairs. A notification of receipt will be emailed within
three working days after the deadline.
Important Dates
Submission deadline 14 November 2003
Notification of acceptance: 19 December 2003
Camera ready papers due 16 January 2004
Conference 5-7 April 2004
Web Address: http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2004/
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From: Corey Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WWW2004 Call for Participation
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:30:01 -0700 (PDT)
WWW2004 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference
May 17-22, 2004 New York City, NY USA
http://www2004.org/
Paper submission deadline: November 14, 2003
The WWW2004 conference will be held in Manhattan at the Sheraton
Hotel. The technical program will include refereed paper
presentations, alternate track presentations, plenary sessions,
panels, and poster sessions. Tutorials and workshops will precede the
main program, and a Developers Day, devoted to in-depth technical
sessions designed specifically for Web developers, will follow.
IMPORTANT DATES
Tutorial/workshop proposals deadline: October 15, 2003
Paper submission deadline: November 14, 2003
Panel proposals deadline: November 14, 2003
Poster submission starts: January 15, 2004
Poster submission deadline: February 7, 2004
Author notification (papers): January 31, 2004
Developers Day deadline: February 14, 2004
Final papers due: February 28, 2004
Author notification (posters): March 14, 2004
Industrial Practice track deadline: March 15, 2004
Conference:May 17-22, 2004
REFEREED PAPERS TRACK
WWW2004 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the
Web. Papers should not have been published or be in submission at
another conference or journal. Topics include but are not limited to:
Applications
Browsers and User Interfaces
Data Mining
Electronic Commerce (potential papers should be submitted to the EC'04
Conference, which is co-located with WWW2004)
Mobility and Wireless Access
Performance and Reliability
Search
Security and Privacy
Semantic Web
Web Engineering
ALTERNATE TRACKS
Alternate tracks include a combination of peer-reviewed papers and
invited presentations. Topics include:
Education
Web of Communities
Web Services
Industrial Practice
Panels
W3C Track (latest news and views from the World Wide Web Consortium)
Invited
papers only
Inquiries can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Marc Najork, Microsoft Research
Craig Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
POSTERS
Posters provide a forum for late-breaking research, and facilitate
feedback in an informal setting. Posters are peer-reviewed. Formatting
and publication details will be available on http://www2004.org/.
The poster area provides an opportunity for researchers and
practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent Web-related
research, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal
setting. It gives conference attendees a way to learn about innovative
works in progress in a timely and informal manner.
TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS
A program of tutorials will cover topics of current interest to Web
design, development, services, operation, use, and evaluation. These
half and full-day sessions will be led by internationally recognized
experts and experienced instructors using prepared content.
Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers, designers, leaders,
and practitioners to explore current Web R&D issues through a more
focused and in-depth manner than is possible in a traditional
conference session. Participants typically present position
statements and hold in-depth discussions with their peers within the
workshop setting.
DEVELOPERS DAY
Developers Day (D-Day) will be devoted to the interests of Web
developers, and will offer in-depth discussions of technologies and
tools at the forefront of the Web. This day-long program will consist
of several parallel streams focused on specific content areas. D-Day
sessions are designed to be timely and state-of-the-art.
General questions about WWW2004 may be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tomas Singliar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Call for AAAI-04 Workshop proposals
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:21:38 -0400
Call for AAAI-04 Workshop Proposals
Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
July 25-29
San Jose, California
Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/2004/ws-04.html
The AAAI-04 Program Committee invites proposals for the Workshop
Program of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence's
Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04).
Workshops will be held at the beginning of the conference, July 25-26,
2004. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and
discuss issues with a selected focus-providing an informal setting for
active exchange among researchers, developers and users on topics of
current interest. Members of all segments of the AI community are
encouraged to submit proposals.
To foster interaction and exchange of ideas, the workshops will be
kept small, with 25-50 participants. Attendance is limited to active
participants only. The format of workshops will be determined by their
organizers, who are encouraged to leave ample time for general
discussion.Workshops will typically be one full day in length,
although half-day and two-day proposals will be considered.
Proposal Content
Proposals for workshops should be about two (2) pages in length, and
should contain:
* A description of the workshop topic. Identify the specific issues on
which the workshop will focus.
* A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at
this time.
* A brief description of the proposed workshop format, regarding the
mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels,
and general discussion.
* An indication as to whether the workshop should be considered for a
half-day, one or two-day meeting.
* The names and full contact information (e-mail and postal addresses,
fax and telephone numbers) of the organizing committee - 3 to 4
people knowledgeable in the field - and short descriptions of their
relevant expertise. Strong proposals include organizers who bring
differing perspectives to the workshop topic and who are actively
connected to the communities of potential participants.
* A list of potential attendees.
Workshops are an excellent forum for exploring emerging approaches and
task areas, for bridging the gaps between AI and other fields or
between subfields of AI, for elucidating the results of exploratory
research, or for critiquing existing approaches. Because workshops are
intended for focused exploration of special topics, topics that are
already the subject of regular meetings are not appropriate.
Workshop Organization
Workshop organizers will be responsible for:
* Producing a call for participation. The Call is due November 14,
2003. This Call will be mailed to AAAI members by AAAI and placed on
the AAAI web site. Organizers are responsible for additional
publicity such as distributing the Call to relevant newsgroups and
electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from
outside the AAAI community.
* Selecting participants. Workshop attendance is by invitation of the
organizers. Selection of attendees will be made by the organizers on
the basis of submissions due March 12, 2004. Workshop organizers
will need to provide AAAI with a preliminary list of the
participants by April 23, 2004.
* Coordinating the production of the workshop notes. AAAI provides a
small budget to cover publication, mailing and administrative
support. AAAI can reproduce and mail copies of the working notes if
materials are received by May 25, 2004. Working notes may contain a
collection of statements by participants or other relevant material,
but are limited to a total of 200 pages.
Workshop organizers who want to publish the papers from their workshop
(or significant portions of it) will have the opportunity to do so
through the AAAI Press. The Press (which retains the right of first
refusal to publish) will furnish details of its program to interested
organizers and authors.
AAAI will provide logistic support, and meeting places for the
workshops, and will determine the dates and times of the workshops. AAAI
reserves the right to drop any workshop if the organizers miss the above
deadlines.Workshops are not to be used as a vehicle for marketing
products. All workshop participants must register for the AAAI-04
Technical Program.
Proposal Submission
Workshop proposals must be received no later than October 3, 2003.
E-mail submissions in PDF format are preferred. Organizers will be
notified of the committee's decision by October 27, 2003.
The Workshop Program is chaired by Milos Hauskrecht of the University
of Pittsburgh and cochaired by Dieter Fox of the University of
Washington. Please submit workshop proposals and address inquiries
concerning workshops to:
Milos Hauskrecht
University of Pittsburgh
Computer Science Department
5329 Sennott Square
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Telephone: (412) 624-8845
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Johnson P Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IAS 2004
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:41:37 -0500
Call for Papers
Information Assurance and Security - IAS 2004
(http://www.cs.okstate.edu/~aa/itcc04/itcc04.html)
in conjunction with
International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and
Computing (ITCC 2004)
The Orleans, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
April 5-7, 2004
Information assurance is a top priority for the United States
Government. Finding effective ways to protect information systems,
networks and sensitive data within the nation's critical information
infrastructure is challenging even with the most advanced technology
and trained professionals. This track aims to bring together
individuals involved in multiple disciplines of information security
and assurance to foster exchange of ideas. This special track invites
authors to submit original contributions of not more than 8 pages
which include, but are not limited to the following topics of
interest:
* Authentication
* Data protection
* Computer forensics
* Internet and www security
* Information and data integrity
* Intrusion detection
* Data and system integrity
* Authorization and access control
* Information warfare and cyber-terrorism
* Security models and architectures
* Risk analysis and risk management
* Security verification
* Cryptography and coding
* Cryptographic protocols
* E-commerce protocols
* Agent and mobile code security
* Security in sensor networks
* Biometrics
* Key management
* Steganography
* Homeland security
* Wireless and ad hoc network security
* Information security management
* Database and system security
* Denial of service
Publication
The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer
Society. A special issue of an international journal is being planned
consisting of selected papers from this conference. Papers will be
reviewed by at least two independent referees for originality and
quality.
Important Deadlines
Paper Submission Deadline: October 17, 2003
Author Notification : November 14, 2003
Camera Ready Copy : December 19, 2003
Paper Submission Guidelines
Papers should be original contributions of theoretical or experimental
nature or be unique experience reports. Interested authors should send an
8-page summary including 5 keywords to the Track Chairs (Email addresses
are available in hyperlinks). Electronic submission is strongly encouraged.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GECCO 2004 Workshops: Call for proposals
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:39:15 +0200 (CEST)
Call for proposals
GECCO 2004 Workshops
Part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004)
Seattle on June 26 - 30 (Saturday - Wednesday), 2004
http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2004
A recombination of the 9th Annual Genetic Programming Conference
(GP-2003) and the 13th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
(ICGA-2003)
**** Deadline October 31, 2003 ****
The GECCO-2004 Program Committee would like to invite proposals for
workshops to be held during the 2004 Genetic and Evolutionary
Computation Conference (GECCO-2004).
Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers to meet and discuss
topics with a selected focus in an informal and interactive setting.
Workshops are an excellent forum for participants with common
interests to explore new approaches, critique existing approaches, and
identify emerging areas of interest in genetic and evolutionary
computation (GEC). Members of all segments of the GEC community are
encouraged to submit proposals.
Individual workshops can be two hours, half day, or full day in
length. Although the format of the workshops will be determined by
their organisers, all organisers will be STRONGLY encouraged to
allocate significant time to interactive sessions (discussions,
panels, question and answer sessions, group problem-solving,
brainstorming, etc.) that cannot normally be accommodated within a
larger conference programme.
Proposals for workshops should not exceed THREE pages in length and
should contain the following information:
1. A description of the workshop topic. Identify the specific
issues on which the workshop will focus.
2. A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest to
the GEC community at this time.
3. A brief description of the proposed workshop format and
identification of the points where the workshop will encourage the
participation of all workshop attendees. (For example, workshops
have often included a combination of the following: panel
discussion, question and answer sessions, hands-on demonstrations,
small group problem solving sessions, brainstorming sessions, short
paper presentations, poster sessions, general discussion).
4. The names and full contact information (e-mail and postal
addresses, fax, and telephone numbers) of the workshop organiser(s)
and brief descriptions of their relevant expertise.
5. A brief resume of the qualifications of the organisers providing
evidence of their previous workshop organisation experience, their
contribution to the field of Evolutionary Computation and evidence
of peer-esteem in the subject area of the workshop.
6. A brief description of the preferred length (2hr, half day, or full
day).
7. An indicative list of potential attendees.
Organisers' whose proposals are accepted for GECCO workshops will be
responsible for co-ordinating the workshop and gathering
abstracts/papers for publication if applicable. Attendance of the
workshops will be open to all GECCO attendees. ALL organisers,
participants, and presenters must register for the GECCO-2004
conference. Organising a workshop does NOT qualify the organiser for
a reduction in the registration or accomodation costs.
Where workshops include paper or poster presentations abstracts and/or
full papers from each workshop will be published in the separate
workshop proceedings. Details and additional deadlines will be
provided once decisions have been made on the proposals.
Workshop proposals should be submitted as soon as possible and must be
received no later than October 31, 2003. Please submit proposals in
PLAIN TEXT e-mail format. Please do not send HTML formatted text or
encoded attachments. Organisers will be notified of the committee's
decisions by November 14, 2003.
Updated information about the workshop program will be provided at
http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2004/workshops/
(c.f. http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu:8080/GECCO-2004/workshops/) as it
is received.
Please send proposals and inquiries regarding workshops to:
Stefano Cagnoni
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Mueller Joerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 1st CALL FOR PAPERS: AGENT TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:13:19 +0200
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Track on
Agent Technology in Business Applications
To be held at the
Multiconference on Business Informatics (MKWI'2004) Essen,
Germany, March 9-11, 2004.
URL: http://www.wi.uni-hohenheim.de/ateba04/
Introduction
Today's enterprises face new challenges that increasingly show the
limitations of traditional IT and software technologies. Trends such
as increased global outsourcing, mass customization and
personalization of products and services, ever-shortening product
lifecycles, and increased heterogeneity in open supply networks
require new architectures and methods to help enterprises cope with
uncertainty and change at the level of business processes. As
uncertainty and rate of change increase, so does the need for
collaboration. Enterprises need to collaborate flexibly with (possibly
previously unknown) customers, partners, and suppliers. Traditional
client-server smart-hub, dumb-spoke business architectures are no
longer suitable for these new types of interaction and collaboration
among self-interested entities.
Agents are one of the most prominent and attractive technologies in
computer science at the beginning of the new millennium. The
technologies, methods, and theories of agents and multiagent systems
are currently contributing to many diverse domains such as information
retrieval, user interfaces, electronic commerce, robotics, computer
mediated collaboration, computer games, education and training,
ubiquitous computing, and social simulation. They not only are a very
promising technology, but are also emerging as a new way of thinking,
a conceptual paradigm for analyzing problems and for designing
systems, for dealing with complexity, distribution, and interactivity,
while providing a new perspective on computing and intelligence.
The purpose of this Special Track is to bring together practitioners
and researcher in the fields of Economics and agent technology to
explore synergies and potential applications in both fields. Centered
around but not restricted to areas such as the design of mechanisms
for computational markets, electronic negotiations, collaborative and
executable business processes, simulation of systems of economically
motivated agents, preference modeling and elicitation, and intelligent
search and semantic web technologies, the aim of the track is to
foster a common understanding and recognize new research
perspectives. Formal publication of accepted papers is planned.
Topics
We encourage submissions in the following areas:
- agent-based auction systems, bidding and bargaining agents
- agent-based software engineering
- agent-based workflow management and process control
- agent-mediated electronic commerce - markets, auctions and exchanges
- bidding and negotiation strategies
- economic-based theory and design methodologies
- eliciting human preferences and requirements and ensuring that they
are represented in automated agent behavior
- evolution of markets and organizations
- game- and decision-theoretic models of agency
- goal-directed business process
- infrastructures for next generation business applications
- innovative approaches to enterprise application integration
- integration of negotiation with broader decision making
- intelligent search and Semantic web technologies
- interaction mechanisms, negotiation protocols, and auctions
- lessons learned from deployed agents in business applications
- market-based problem solving
- middle-agents (e.g., matchmakers, brokers, routers)
- modelling and learning multi-attribute preference structures
- ontologies for agents and social modeling; ontologies in agent-based
information systems and knowledge management
- scalability and complexity issues
- self-organizing systems and emergent organization
- significant new problem domains
- simulation and evaluation of properties of novel and complex mechanisms
- support for adaptive supply networks
- systems that support bidding and negotiation
- trading and pricing
- web-services based business process infrastructures
Submission Details
Deadline for paper submissions: November 14, 2003
Notification of acceptance: December 19, 2003
Final workshop paper versions due to: January 30, 2004
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