- From: Valentina Tamma <V.A.M.Tamma@csc.liv.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 20:21:11 +0100 (BST)
- To: Valentina Tamma <valli@csc.liv.ac.uk>
******************************************************************************* * * * [Apologies for cross posting] * * * * Call For Paper: EKAW 2002 Workshop on Ontologies for Multi-AgentSystems * * 30 September 2002, * * Siguenza, Spain, * * * * http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~valli/OMAS-CFP.html * ******************************************************************************* DUE TO A NUMBER OF REQUESTS THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JUNE 15th This workshop is held in cooperation with the AAMAS 2002 Workshop on "Ontologies in Agent Systems" to be held on 15-16 July in Bologna, Italy. Both workshops will provide lively forums for discussion of technologies, issues and challenges in the area of Ontologies and Agents. NEW: AgentLink travel grants available AgentLink sponsors two travel grants for students at an institution which is an AgentLink member node. The grants will provide full or partial support for travel and registration fees. A maximum of 500 Euros for each grant will be available. Applicants should send their contact information and a brief description of their current research to Valentina Tamma (valli@csc.liv.ac.uk) not later than August, 1st, 2002. Preference will be given to those students who have a paper accepted for presentation at the workshop. Motivation ---------- The workshop intends to support and consolidate the growing interest in the use of ontologies for multi-agent system applications. On the one hand, the agent paradigm is successfully employed in those applications where autonomous, loosely-coupled, heterogeneous, and distributed systems need to interoperate in order to achieve a common goal. On the other hand, ontologies have established themselves as a powerful tool to enable knowledge sharing, and a growing number of applications have benefited from the use of ontologies as a means to achieve semantic interoperability among heterogeneous, distributed systems. In practice, the application areas of these technologies often overlap, for example: e-commerce, intelligent information integration, and web services. Increasingly, the multi-agent systems and ontology research communities are seeking to work together to solve common problems. A key focus to this joint working is emerging in ideas for the semantic web. Both ontologies and agent technologies are central to the semantic web, and their combined use will enable the sharing of heterogeneous, autonomous knowledge sources in a scalable, adaptable and extensible manner. The workshop on ontologies for multi-agent systems will complement the analogous track at the main EKAW conference, by providing a discussion forum for the two communities in order to explore trade-offs, current achievements and possible pitfalls in the use of ontologies for multi-agent systems. The goal of this workshop is to foster fruitful discussions. We therefore encourage anybody with an interest to attend the workshop and submit technical or position papers to add fuel to discussion and share experiences and ideas. Related Events -------------- Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems to be held the Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems Conference, Bologna, 15-16 July 2002 http://www.autonomousagents.org/2002/oas Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems held at Autonomous Agents, 2001 http://cis.otago.ac.nz/OASWorkshop/ Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce, AAAI 2000 http://www.igec.umbc.edu/kbem/ WWW2002 international workshop on the Semantic Web</a>, Hawaii, May 7, 2002 http://semanticweb2002.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de The workshop shares interests with the following efforts, just to mention a few: Darpa Agent Markup Language http://www.daml.org OntoWeb http://www.ontoweb.org AgentLink Special Interest Group on Intelligent Information Agents http://www.dbgroup.unimo.it/IIA/ Topics of Interest ------------------ The main topics of interest include but are not restricted to: * Requirements for ontology representations to be used by agent systems. This includes discussion of expressive power and possible inferences supported by ontology based languages, web based languages, and other languages used in agent applications; * Requirements of agent architectures to use ontologies to support semantic interoperability among agents. This includes experiences with architectures that have already been successfully implemented, use cases, and comparative studies of different architectures; * Expressive power of ontology content in relation to the semantics of the different aspects of interoperation. This includes the balance between the representational capability of the performatives and that of the message content ontologies, but also the balance between the content and the operational aspects of interoperation, which is needed for cooperation patterns, rational interactions (such as negotiation, bargaining, auctions), coalition formation, etc.; * Dynamic, semantic mapping across ontologies; * Use of negotiation techniques for reaching consensus on terms used in heterogeneous, distributed multi-agent systems, but also the agreement on and use of consensual terminology for enabling negotiation; * Evolution of ontologies in multi-agent systems; * Scalability and versioning of ontologies in multi-agent systems; * Use of ontologies and agents in different technological contexts such as the semantic web, web services, and e-commerce, enterprise modelling, etc.; * Ontology based semantic routing; * Practical experiences of multi-agent systems using ontologies; * Cross standardisation issues, which include on the one hand the inclusion of ontologies in the current proposals for agents' standards and on the other hand the operational aspects of emerging ontology standards. Submissions ----------- Papers are solicited for any of the topics of interest listed above. We invite contributions of different kinds. We solicit regular research papers which may report on: - completed work; - description of current, but mature, work in progress; - discussion papers comparing different approaches, or account of practical experiences of using ontologies in multi-agent system applications. In addition, we invite people wishing to participate in the workshop to submit a short position paper concerning statements of interest, or technical or policy issues. Spaces will be limited and those who have submitted a paper will be given priority for registration. Both type of papers will provide the framework for the discussions during the workshop. Papers must be written in English. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee, and selected on the basis of their relevance and originality. Both research and position papers should be formatted according to the official formatting guidelines of the EKAW main conference (LNAI style available online at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Research papers should not exceed sixteen pages, while position statements should not exceed five pages. The URL of the paper in Postscript, Adobe PDF or HTML format should be mailed to the main contact person. Publication ----------- All accepted papers (both technical and position papers) will be available on the day of the workshop in a set of working notes. Accepted papers will also made available in electronic format before the day of the workshop. Arrangements are being made to publish selected papers in a special edition of a journal. We subsequently aim to publish a common volume collecting the best papers from this workshop and the AAMAS 2002 workshop on "Ontologies in Agent Systems". The goal is to produce a comprehensive update on today's active research in the field. Important Dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: June, 15th Notification of acceptance: July, 15th Travel grants deadline: August, 1st Camera ready due: August, 15th Workshop: 30 September 2002 Programme Committee ------------------- Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; V. Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain; Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena, Italy; Stephen Cranefield, University of Otago, New Zealand; Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye State University, Ukraine; Mariano Fernandez-Lopez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain; Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA; Enrico Franconi, University of Manchester, United Kingdom; Natalya Fridman Noy, Stanford University, USA; Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain; Dean Jones, BT exact, United Kingdom; Michael Luck, Southampton University, United Kingdom; Enrico Motta, Open University, United Kingdom; Luc Schneider, LADSEB CNR, Italy; Ingo Timm, University of Bremen, Germany; Ubbo Visser, University of Bremen, Germany; Steven Willmott, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland; Mike Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; Organisers ---------- All enquiries and submissions should be directed to the contact person: Valentina Tamma (main contact) Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool Chadwick Building, Peach Street, Liverpool L69 7ZF United Kingdom, Tel. +44-151-794 6797 Fax. +44-151-794 3715 Email: valli@csc.liv.ac.uk Ian Dickinson Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS34 8QZ United Kigdom, Tel: +44-117-312 8796 Fax: +44-117-312 8924 Email: ian_dickinson@hp.com Heiner Stuckenschmidt Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tel: +31-20-444 7818 Fax: +31-20-444 7653 Email: heiner@cs.vu.nl -- Valentina Tamma Agents Applications, Research and Technology Group Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool Chadwick Building (room 1.11) Peach Street Liverpool L69 7ZF UK e-mail: valli@csc.liv.ac.uk phone: +44-151-794 6797 fax: +44-151-794 3715 http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~valli/
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