- From: Valentina Tamma <V.A.M.Tamma@csc.liv.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:51:47 +0000
- To: Valentina Tamma <valli@csc.liv.ac.uk>
- Cc: Terry Payne <trp@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Apologies for multiple postings --- Agents and the Semantic Web --- 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium Series Call for Papers Arlington, Virginia, USA 3rd-6th November, 2005 http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/AAAI-FSS05/ The Semantic Web is based on the idea of dynamic, heterogeneous, shared knowledge sources providing machine-readable content in a similar way to that in which information is shared on the World Wide Web. Integral to this vision was a synergy with Multi-Agent Systems technology; agents could utilize this knowledge to achieve their own goals, producing new knowledge that could be disseminated or published within a common framework. Conversely, the Semantic Web would benefit from autonomous, distributed agents responsible for gathering/aggregating knowledge, reasoning and inferring new facts, identifying and managing inconsistencies, and providing trust and security mechanisms. Previous workshops and discussion fora devoted to this topic have mainly focused on either the semantic web aspect or the agent aspect of the problem, and have failed to achieve an agreement on the common research themes. Thus there is a risk of missing significant opportunities for sharing results in areas such as: * Knowledge sharing. The agent paradigm is successfully employed in those applications where autonomous, heterogeneous, and distributed systems need to interoperate in order to achieve a common goal, however this is possible if agents are able to share knowledge. Ontologies are a powerful tool to achieve semantic interoperability among heterogeneous, distributed systems. * Syntactic Unification. Data exchanged between service providers are typically based on different syntaxes and conceptual schemas, raising the problem of data mediation for interoperability. Ontologies, and mechanisms for mapping and translating across ontologies can address these problems. * Discovery of agent capabilities. Semantic-based discovery mechanisms and languages/ontologies for describing agent capabilities and predefined coordination mechanisms are needed to make the automatic discovery of services offered by agents and other providers. * Agent coordination. Goal-directed composition typically involves planning across a space of existing actions, ensuring that data and control flow constraints are satisfied. Model checking techniques are required to ensure valid compositions, as well as temporal reasoning to validate control flow dependences. Such techniques need to accommodate semantic descriptions as well as avoiding live-lock situations that may lead to failure. * Interaction Protocols. Different agents expect specific messages to be choreographed in a precisely defined manner. Integration has to guarantee and enforce the communication protocols. Interoperable description frameworks are thus required to ensure that both parties understand and adhere to interaction protocols. The semantics of the terms used in these protocols is made explicit in ontologies. This symposium aims to promote and foster a greater understanding of the synergy between Multi-Agent Systems and the Semantic Web. Topics of Interest include: - Semantic interoperability and integration - Distributed, autonomous knowledge-management - Dynamic, semantic mapping across ontologies; - Use of negotiation techniques for reaching consensus; - Evolution of ontologies in multi-agent systems; - Scalability and versioning of ontologies in multi-agent systems; - Centralized and Distributed mechanisms for service invocation/enactment - Failure and Recovery mechanisms - Semantic descriptions of Autonomic mechanisms for robust, coordinated service communities - Semantic description, discovery, and selection of services and choreographies - Semantic Web Services (including OWL-S and WSMO) - Semantics in Agent Communication Languages - Semantics in Interaction Protocols - Semantics in Electronic Institutions - Semantics for service delegation and knowledge aggregation - Architectures for supporting Agents and Web Services within the Semantic Web Submissions =========== Papers are solicited for the issues discussed above. We invite contributions of different kinds. We solicit regular research papers which may report on: - Full Papers (8 pages) completed work; - Extended Abstracts (3 pages) summarising current (but mature) work in progress (accepted abstracts should be extended to full papers for the symposium proceedings) - Position papers (4 pages) comparing different approaches, or account of practical experiences of using Agent technologies within a Semantic Web Environment. All accepted 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. A selection of the best papers will be published in a post-symposium volume. Both research and position papers should be formatted according to the official formatting guidelines of AAAI available at http://aaai.org/Publications/Author/electronic-submissions.html The URL of the paper in Postscript, Adobe PDF format can be submitted electronically. Details on electronic submission can be found at http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/AAAI-FSS05/ Dates ===== Paper submissions: April 25th Acceptance Notifications: May 23rd Camera ready copies: tbd Registration Deadline: October 7th Symposium: November 3rd-6th Organizing Committee ==================== Terry Payne (Co-chair) University of Southampton Valentina Tamma (Co-chair) University of Liverpool Bijan Parsia University of Maryland David Martin SRI International Simon Parsons City University of New York Nick Gibbins University of Southampton Program Committee ================== Alun Preece, University of Aberdeen, UK Andreas Hess, University College, Dublin, Ireland Brian Blake, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Chiara Ghidini, ITC, Italy Chris Priest, HP Labs, UK Chris Walton, University of Edinburgh, UK David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK Evren Sirin, University of Maryland, MD Fabien Gandon, Inria, Sophia Antipolis, France Filip Perich, Cougar Software, McLean, VA Ian Dickinson, HP Labs, UK Ion Costantinescu, EPFL, Switzerland Jeffrey Bradshaw, University of West Florida, FL John Domingue, Open University, UK Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, PA Kaoru Hiramatsu, NTT Corporation, Japan Marta Sabou, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany Michael Klein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, SC Monica Crubezy, University of Stanfard, CA Monika Solanki, De Montfort Univeristy, UK Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, PA Onn Shehory, IBM, Israel Paul Buhler, College of Charleston, Pete Edwards, University of Aberdeen, UK Richard Benjamins, iSOCO, Spain Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Labs of America, MD Sheila MacIlraith, University of Toronto, CA Simon Thompson, BT Labs, UK Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany Steve Battle, HP Labs, UK Steven Willmott, University of Catalunya, Spain Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD Lalana Kagal, MIT, MA Carine Bournez, W3C Ashok Mallya, North Carolina State, NC Mary Pulvermacher, MITRE Corporation, CO
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