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Dear all,
Just when you thought you'd seen enough Workshop announcements (!)
here is another for Ontologies in Agent Systems to be held
AAMAS'2002 in July in Bologna, Italy. Hope this is of interest to
you in any case...
This is resend after local email failures here at EPFL this WE.
Apologies if you receive this multiple times!
Best regards,
steve.
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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
15 or 16 July 2002
http://autonomousAgents.org/2002/oas/
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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
---------------
Paper submission deadline: 22 April, 2002
Author notification: 12 May, 2002
Camera-ready copy deadline: 22 May, 2002
Date of Workshop: 15 or 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
two types:
- Full papers: may be up to eight pages in length and should describe
original work related to workshop topics.
- Short paper / position statement: should be no more than two
pages in length and should describe a problem or research
issue that you consider to be important or on which you are
working.
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),
details to be announced on the workshop website in due course.
Publication
-----------
All accepted papers will be available on the day of the workshop in a
set of working notes. Arrangements are being made to publish
selected papers in an archival format, e.g. a special issue of a
journal (details to be announced).
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
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- 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
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- 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)
- Martin Purvis, University of Otago (New Zealand)
- Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool (England)
- Michael Uschold, Boeing (USA)
Workshop Website
----------------
http://autonomousAgents.org/2002/oas/
--
Steven Willmott, Email: steven.willmott@epfl.ch
Intelligence Artificielle, Tel: +41 (0)21 693 66 77
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Fax: +41 (0)21 693 52 25
Lausanne, Suisse, CH-1015.
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