- From: Stephen Cranefield <scranefield@infoscience.otago.ac.nz>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:35:28 +1200
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I am appending the final call for papers for the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems at AAMAS 2002. Note that the submission deadline has been extended to 28 April. - Stephen --- CALL FOR PAPERS --- CALL FOR PAPERS --- CALL FOR PAPERS --- OAS 2002 Second International Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems to be held at the 1st International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems Bologna, Italy 16 July 2002 http://autonomousAgents.org/2002/oas/ ------------- Our apologies if you receive this multiple times. Abstract and Objectives ----------------------- The OAS 2002 workshop aims to provide for lively discussion on the issues involved in using ontologies to support interactions between software agents. Particular topics of interest are: 1. Practical experience and considerations in designing agent-based applications using ontology techniques and the infrastructural support required for their effective use. 2. Discussion of the dependencies between ontologies, their supporting technologies and other aspects of agent systems such as agent architectures and communication mechanisms. 3. Comparison of different ontology representation approaches for use in agent systems. Emphasis will be on the discussion of ontologies with respect to the practical impact they have on agent architecture and application design. The workshop will be held at the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2002 conference taking place in Bologna, Italy from 15 to 19 July, 2002. Important Dates --------------- Electronic submission of abstract: 26 April, 2002 (Extended) paper submission deadline: 28 April, 2002 Author notification: 12 May, 2002 Camera-ready copy deadline: 22 May, 2002 Date of Workshop: 16 July, 2002 Background ---------- Over the past few years, researchers and industry have both been involved in a great drive towards enabling interoperability between diverse information sources and service-providing software through the explicit modelling of concepts used in communication. Examples of this type of effort include the Semantic Web and (less formally) the OMG's model driven architecture and XML-based based business standards such as ebXML. The objective is to capture explicit conceptualisations of application domains in the form of schemas, data-models or ontologies, thereby making it possible for systems and system designers to share the same semantics for terms used in interactions. The problems in creating, maintaining and using such descriptions are seen by many as critical to future commercial and non-commercial information networks. In addition to these ontology efforts there are now a number of large-scale initiatives to create open environments that support the interaction of many diverse systems (e.g. Agentcities, Grid computing and Web Services among others). Researchers involved in these initiatives have recognised the need to combine agent and ontology technology to achieve a useful level of interoperability. Since the first OAS workshop in 2001 the intersection between agents and ontologies has become even more important. There are now many more projects applying ontology modelling techniques to agent applications, and industry efforts such as Web Services and ebXML are beginning to have a significant effect on business system deployment plans. Workshop Format --------------- The workshop will take place over one day with discussion and presentation split between: - Full paper presentations (see "paper submission" below) - Invited presentations - Panel discussions based on short papers and invited panellists Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of interest related to the three workshop objectives (above) include but are not limited to: Area 1: Application and Practical Issues - Practical experience in building agent systems using explicit ontologies to support inter-agent communication. - Techniques agents might use to deal with multiple ontology representation languages, incomplete or incorrect ontologies, mapping information from one ontology to another or the evolution of ontologies over time. - Requirements for ontology support in agent applications and agent toolkits including support for access to existing (e.g. Web-based) ontology resources. - Issues surrounding the reuse of existing ontologies by agent systems. In particular, the problems associated with adaptation and extension of existing ontologies for specific systems, and repositories of ontologies in particular domains (infrastructure, tools, access by agent systems and management). Area 2: Theoretical Issues - Metamodelling or other techniques for clarifying the relationship between ontologies and agents' messaging and reasoning systems. - Theoretical foundations for issues in semantic mapping and translation to achieve high fidelity communication among agents. For example, what are the relationships between ontology modelling languages and agent communication mechanisms: what are the dependencies between (for example) the semantics of a communication language and what can be expressed in the ontology? Area 3: Evaluation and Comparison - Strengths and weaknesses of current ontology representation approaches for use with agents - both specific technologies and generic techniques such as logic-based and object-oriented approaches and those based on Semantic Web models. - The role of standards for ontology representation and communication - Classifications identifying which approaches are most appropriate for particular applications or communication requirements. Paper Submission ---------------- Since the objective of the workshop is to enable lively discussion we encourage all participants to submit a paper contribution (as workshop space will be limited, paper authors will also receive priority in workshop registration). Papers may be one of three types: - Full papers: may be up to eight pages in length and should describe original work related to workshop topics. - Short papers and position statements: should be no more than two pages in length and should describe a problem or research issue that you consider to be important (for position statements) or on which you are working (for short papers). Papers may be entirely new work, discussion papers weighing up different approaches, descriptions of applications or requirements, or accounts of practical experiences. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings and considered for presentation. All papers should be formatted following the style of ACM conference proceedings. Templates for Word, WordPerfect and LaTeX are available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Submissions will be electronic only (PostScript or PDF format), via the workshop Web site (http://autonomousAgents.org/2002/oas/). Publication ----------- All accepted papers will be available on the day of the workshop in a set of working notes. This workshop is being held in cooperation with the EKAW 2002 Workshop on Ontologies for Multi-Agent Systems to be held on the 30th September in Siguenza, Spain. Both workshops will provide lively forums for the discussion of technologies, issues and challenges in the area of Agents and Ontologies. We subsequently aim to publish a common volume collecting the best papers from both events to produce a comprehensive update on today's active research in the field Registration ------------ Workshop participants must register for both the main AAMAS 2002 conference and this workshop by following the instructions at http://autonomousAgents.org/2002/. Organising Committee -------------------- - Stephen Cranefield, University of Otago, New Zealand - Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA - Steve Willmott, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland Programme Committee ------------------- - Federico Bergenti, University of Parma (Italy) - Jean Bézivin, University of Nantes (France) - Luis Bothelo, Adetti (Portugal) - Patricia Charlton, Motorola (France) - Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies (Switzerland) - Ulises Cortes, UPC Barcelona, (Spain) - Frank van Harmelen, Vrije University Amsterdam (The Netherlands) - Stefan Haustein, University of Dortmund (Germany) - Jim Hendler, University of Maryland (USA) - Noriaki Izumi, Shizuoka University (Japan) - Matthias Klusch, DFKI (Germany) - Yannis Labrou, Powermarket.com (USA) - Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu (Japan) - Frank McCabe, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, (USA) - Natalya Fridman Noy, Stanford University (USA) - James Odell, James Odell Associates (USA) - Martin Purvis, University of Otago (New Zealand) - Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool (England) - Michael Uschold, Boeing (USA) Workshop Website ---------------- http://autonomousAgents.org/2002/oas/
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