CIA 2001

Information agent technology is one of the major key technologies for the Internet and worldwide Web. It emerged as a response to the challenges of the cyberspace from both, the technological and human user perspective. Development of information agents requires expertise from different research disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), advanced databases and knowledge base systems, distributed information systems, information retrieval, and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Like in the previous CIA workshops, all topics in the research area of intelligent and collaborating information agents are covered by the CIA-2001 workshop. 

• SYSTEMS and Applications of Information Agents
  • Architectures, prototypes and fielded systems of collaborating information agents for information discovery and management in the Internet and Web.
• ADAPTATION and Learning Applied to Information Agents
  • Advanced methods for single and multiagent system learning.
  • Performance, relationship and application of multiagent learning for collaborating information agents. 
  • Self-emerging collaboration among information agents.
  • Computation and action under limited resources. 
  • Methods for automated uncertain reasoning for knowledge based information agents.
  • Distributed, adaptive Information Retrieval
• MOBILE Information Agents and Issues of Security in the Internet
  • Applications of cooperating mobile information agents in wearable computers, hand-held and/or satellite-based control devices (WAP-compliant Web handies, communicators, etc.).
  • Architectures, environments and languages for mobile and secure performance of information agents and servers.
• RATIONAL Information Agents and Electronic Commerce
  • Virtual Agent-Based Marketplaces, Coalition Formation, Auctions.
  • Electronic Commerce with incomplete and uncertain informations. 
  • Economic Models of cooperative problem solving among rational information agents in open information environments. 
  • Standards for privacy of communication, security, and jurisdiction for agent-mediated deals.
• Advanced Database, Information System and Knowledge-Base Technology
  • Application of techniques for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in open, distributed and dynamically changing environments. 
  • Management of uncertain and incomplete knowledge for information gathering on the Internet or large corporate Intranets.
• Construction and Reuse of Ontologies for Multiagent Information Gathering
• Human-Agent Interaction and Intelligent User Interfaces for Information Agents
  • Synthetic agents, believable avatars, and 3-D multimedia-based representation of user information spaces in the Internet. 
  • Models and implementation of advanced interfaces for conversation and dialogue among information Agents and Users. 
  • Dynamic inspection of information agents' work by the user.