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kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp>- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: IAT-2001 The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology SPONSORED BY ACM SIGART Maebashi Institute of Technology - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan October 23-26, 2001 Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/iat01 Mirror Page: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT/iat01 Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IN COOPERATION WITH ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGWEB Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) JSAI SIGFAI, JSAI SIGKBS, IEICE SIGKBSE CORPORATE SPONSORS Maebashi Convention Bureau Maebashi City Government Gunma Prefecture Government The Japan Research Institute, Limited US AFOSR/AOARD and US Army Research Office in Far East IAT-2001 will be jointly held with The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2001) (One registration may attend both IAT-2001 and WI-2001) ======================================================= IAT-2001 and WI-2001 Joint Keynote Speakers: Benjamin Wah (2001 IEEE CS President), U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Edward A. Feigenbaum (Turing Award Winner), Stanford University IAT-2001 Invited Speakers: Toyoaki Nishida (University of Tokyo, Japan) Zbigniew W. Ras (University of North Carolina, USA) Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw University, Poland) Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) The Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) is a high-quality, high-impact biennial agent conference series. The second meeting in this conference series follows the success of IAT'99 held in Hong Kong in 1999 (http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99). IAT-2001 will primarily focus on (1) the state-of-the-art in the development of intelligent agents and (2) the theoretical and computational foundations of intelligent agent technology. The aim of IAT-2001 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics to (1) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multiagent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and biological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT-2001 is expected to stimulate the future development of new models, new methodologies, and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of agent-based systems. TOPICS ====== The technical issues to be addressed include, but not limited to: * Applications: - data and knowledge intensive domains (e.g., large databases, Internet, digital libraries, distributed decision making, financial modeling and engineering, business information systems and process automation) - software and interface agents (e.g., personal assistant, translator, scheduler, information filter, tutor) - computational intelligence (e.g., pattern analysis and recognition, imaging, optimization, resource allocation, constraint satisfaction, planning) - agents in e-commerce and e-business - autonomous agents in science and engineering (e.g. aerospace, survey of the seabed and space) - physically embodied systems (e.g., autonomous robots and groups) - very-large, complex, integrated intelligent systems * Computational Architecture and Infrastructure: - computational architectures - ontology models - agent-level and multi-agent-level infrastructure - communication languages - multi-modal systems and interfaces - protocols - tools and standards - heterogeneity and interoperability - scalability * Learning and Adaptation: - soft-computing in multi-agent systems - uncertainty management in multi-agent systems - integrated exploration and exploitation - long-term reliability - neural networks - artificial life - behavioral selection - coordinating perception, thought, and action - behavioral self-organization - believable lifelike quality - classifier systems - evolution and learning in dynamic environments - adaptation and self-adaptation - emergent behavior - evolutionary computation * Data and Knowledge Engineering/Communication: - information filtering - data mining - heterogeneous data integration and management - human-agent interaction - knowledge discovery - knowledge sharing - knowledge aggregation - reasoning and planning - adaptation and evolution of knowledge networks - distributed knowledge systems * Distributed Intelligence: - dynamics of groups and populations - swarms - population evolution - coevolution - collective group behavior - coordination and cooperation - distributed intelligence - social integration - market-based computing * Formal Theories of Agents: - formal/computational modeling - chaotic and fractal dynamics - computational complexity - efficiency in distributed systems - taxonomy of agent environments - classification and characterization of complex behaviors - theories of perception, rationality, intention, emotion, coordination, action, and social behaviors PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION ============================== High quality full-length papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions are most welcome and will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Electronic submission is encouraged and preferred. Please send LaTex (MS-Words, or PDF) and PostScript versions of your paper, and an ASCII version of the cover page (in separate email), by March 20, 2001 to: iat01Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.rutgers.edu>CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ACL/EACL Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education Co-organised by ELSNET Toulouse, Saturday 7th July 2001 BACKGROUND: At a workshop at ACL 2000 in Hong Kong dedicated to Infrastructures for Global Collaboration there was an agreement between the main professional organisations in NLP and Speech (ACL and ISCA), and ELSNET, and the other meeting participants, that it would be useful to aim at a broadly supported, joint repository or catalogue for tools and materials for the language and speech communities. An ELSNET-sponsored workshop on educational issues held at EACL99 concluded that certain non-transient infrastructures needed to be instigated to raise the public perception of educational issues in NLP. It also concluded that a repository of shared materials, appropriately indexed for educational usage, would be a useful point of departure. This workshop will build on the consensus reached at these previous workshops. There will be two clear foci: one upon instruments for sharing tools and resources in general that addresses practical problems, and the other upon the technological and infrastructural issues surrounding the educational uses of repositories. Good examples of existing initiatives in this area are among others the ACL Natural Language Software Registry (hosted at DFKI, registry.dfki.de) which was set up as a repository for tools for the distinct fields of Human Language Techology (HLT), the ELRA/ELDA, LDC, TELRI and Elsnet resources catalogues and repositories (http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA, http://www.ldc.upenn.edu, http://www.telri.de http://www.elsnet.org/resources.html), OLAC (a worldwide network of language archives at http://www.language-archives.org), and JEWELS (http://www.elsnet.org/jewels), an as-yet incomplete EU funded website for educational materials in Language and Speech. A third theme concerns how to build upon existing initiatives as sources of data or inspiration. AIM AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP: The main goal of the workshop is to discuss methods for the improvement and extension of existing repositories; the educational uses of repositories; the closer interlinking between different kinds of repositories (tools and resources); global infrastructures for the achievement of joint actions. However, we expect the scope of the workshop to be much wider than that, as the issues addressed are of general interest to everybody who believes that sharing tools and resources is essential for the progress of research and education in our field. Contributions of papers and demonstrations are solicited that address the above themes. The following list of topics is suggestive rather than exhaustive: * Repositories versus catalogues * Mechanisms and infrastructures for sharing and describing content * Repository management * Standards for exchange, description, and annotation * Metadata descriptions * Quality assessment * Structure and content of an NLP/CL repository * Tools and materials for NLP/CL education * Web-based teaching methods for NLP/CL SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR PAPERS * Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Submissions should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. You can download the appropriate style or template files using the following link: acl2001.dfki.de/style. In case of problems with the submission format, please contact one of the co-chairs. * Submissions to either co-chair (Mike Rosner and Thierry Declerck). All submissions will be acknowledged. * Please provide a list of keywords in the separate header page and indicate the best fitting subtopic(s) from the above list. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR DEMONSTRATIONS * Demos may be submitted with or without an accompanying paper. * Please write a 2-page description of the demo and send to either co-chair. Please let us know about special hardware requirements over and above the standard PC + beamer without internet access provided by default CONFIRMED COMMITTEE MEMBERS - Thierry Declerck (DFKI) Co-chair (Repository) declerckMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue