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F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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Workshop on
Collaboration Agents: Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Environments
October 13, 2003 - Halifax Canada
http://www.cs.unb.ca/~ghorbani/cola
In conjunction with the
2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on
Web Intelligence / Intelligent Agent Technology
October 13-16, 2003 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Conference Websites: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03,
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT03
Theme:
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Autonomous agents have long been recognised as particularly promising
tools for mundane tasks such as information seeking and distribution. Many
researchers have recognised the power of multiple agents collaborating to
achieve these and other tasks. However, in only a few cases, have agents
been utilised to bring people together (or at least schedule them), and
recent developments are producing architectures of agents that can go
further, facilitating interactions as humans might. We believe that it is
in the bringing together of people that agents can finally realise their
potential.
This workshop is intended to bring to the fore the state of the art of
research and development of agents that bring people together, through,
for example, scheduling, monitoring, or facilitating meetings,
distributing information and building societies, and maintaining links
between people whenever they can. The workshop will not focus on, for
example, the development of interface of search agents - forums exist to
bring this research to the fore. Our interest is in the building of a
community of researchers in the area to allow the growth of a highly
exciting field, one in which agents help people come together.
Topics of interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not necessarily limited to:
collaborative and competitive behaviour of multiple agents
Privacy and security in collaboration agents
Conflicts, conflict resolution and negotiation
Developed, developing, or planned architectures
Technical and philosophical issues in the design of collaboration agents
Knowledge management and collaboration agents
Lessons learned from implemented systems
Workshop format
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The workshop will consist of some short introductory remarks by the
organizers and then mostly of presentations of submitted works, followed
by an open discussion session, where the state of the field, current
problems and new directions will be examined. Recommendations concerning
relevant emerging agent technologies will be considered.
Participation and Submissions
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Participation in this workshop is by invitation only and invitees must be
registered for the WI/IAI 2003 conferences. Also attendance is limited.
Therefore, in case that a selection becomes necessary, we ask researchers
that just want to attend the workshop without contributing a paper to send
a short email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] expressing their particular interest in
the workshop.
Submitted papers should be formatted in the style of IEEE-Computer Society
Format: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm The page limit for
the final version is 12 pages. We only accept electronic submissions.
Please send your manuscripts (PDF format only) to the program chairs:
Workshop organizers and PC members can submit paper(s) subject to the
following extra conditions:
1. Papers will be submitted blind, i.e. given a double-blind review.
2. None of the reviewers of those papers will be organizers of the
workshop.
3. Any decisions regarding those papers will be in camera, not including
the author.
After workshop activities
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Besides online and conventional proceedings a special issue of a journal
will be prepared for the resubmitted papers from this workshop.
Important dates
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- September 1, 2003 Deadline for submission of papers
- September 11, 2003 Notification of acceptance
- September 26, 2003 Final copy due
- October 13, 2003 Workshop
Organizerss:
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Dr. Ali Ghorbani
Professor
Faculty of Computer Science
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, NB, Canada
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dr. Stephen Marsh
National Research Council
Ottawa, Canada
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Program committee
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David Ash (USA)
Virendra Bhavsar (U. of New Brunswick, Canada)
Harold Boley (National research Council, Canada)
Brahim Chaib-draa (Laval University, Canada)
Brian Corrie (NewMIC, Vancouver, Canada)
Ralph Deters (U. of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Ali Ghorbani (U. of New Brunswick, Canada)
Peter Kropf (U. of Montreal, Canada)
Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, UAE)
Stephen Marsh (National research Council, Canada)
Andrew Patrick (National research Council, Canada)
Bruce Spencer (National research Council, Canada)
Said Tabet (USA)
Mihaela Ulieru (U. of Calgary, Canada)
Julita Vassileva (U. of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Invited Speaker(s):
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To be announced.
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