CIKM Workshop on
Intelligent Information Agents

Advance Program

8:00 - 8:30 Coffee

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome, Introduction Tim Finin (UMBC)

8:45 - 10:15 Session One, D. McKay (Unisys)

"Agent Amplified Communication", Henry Kautz and Bart Selman (AT&T)

"Heterogeneous Information Systems Integration: An Agent Messaging Approach", Sankar Virdakriswaren (Cryztaliz)

"SodaBot: A Software Agent Environment and Construction System", Michael Coen (MIT)

Discussion

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:00 Session Two, B. Grosof (IBM)

"Transportable Agents", Keith Kotay and David Kotz (Dartmouth)

"Incorporation Emotional Agents into the Cooperation Mechanism of the Accord System", Michael Gray and D. Patrick Studdard (American University)

"Agent Based Software Engineering" , Michael Genesereth (Stanford)

Discussion

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 Session Three, M. Coriat (Universiti Paris)

"An Endogenous Fitness Paradigm for Adaptive Information Agents", Filippo Menczer, Wolfram Willuhn, and Rik Bellew (UCSD)

"VISITOR-HOSTER: Toward an Intelligent Electronic Secretary", Katia Sycara and Dajun Zeng (CMU)

"Autonomous Agents in Inter-Organization Project Management", Jeremy Pitt, Matthew Anderson and Jim Cunningham (Imperial College)

Discussion

2:30 - 2:45 Break

2:45 - 4:15 Session Four, Yigal Arens (USC/ISI)

"Efficient Query Processing for Information Gathering Agents", Craig Knoblock (ISI) and Alon Levy (AT&T)

"Agent Collaboration as a Resource Discovery Technique", Ellen Voorhees (Siemens)

"Networked Information Retrieval as Distributed Problem Solving", Tim Oates, M.V. Nagendra Prasad and Victor Lesser (UMASS)

Discussion

4:15 - 5:15 Panel: Agent Communication and Programming Languages

5:15 - 5:30 Wrap-up