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9:00 - 9:40 Opening Ceremony
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Welcome and Introduction
Setsuo Ohsuga (Waseda University, Japan)
Jeffrey Bradshaw (UWF/Institute for Human
and Machine Cognition, USA)
Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Web Intelligence Introduction: Research
Challenges and Trends
Y.Y. Yao (University of Regina, Canada)
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology,
Japan)
Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Setsuo Ohsuga (Waseda University, Japan)
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9:40 - 10:40 Keynote Talk (1)
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Intelligent Agents for Market-Trend Prediction
by Benjamin Wah
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
2001 IEEE CS President) |
10:40 - 11:00 Break
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11:00 - 12:45 Keynote Talk (2)
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Knowledge is Power: The Semantic Web Vision
by E.A. Feigenbaum (Stanford University,
Turing Award Winner)
James Hendler (DARPA/ISO, USA) |
12:45 - 14:00 Conference Lunch
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Session 1A:
Web Information System Environment
and Foundations
(1)
(14:00 - 15:40) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
A Web Proxy Cache Coherency and Replacement
Approach
by Jose Aguilar (Universidad de los Andes,
Venezuela)
Ernst Leiss (University of Houston, USA) |
14:20 - 14:40 |
Content Request Markup Language (CRML):
A Distributed Framework for XML-based Content
Publishing
by Chi-Huang Chiu, Kai-Chih Liang, Shyan-Ming
Yuan
(National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) |
14:40 - 15:00 |
A Rough Set-Aided System for Sorting WWW
Bookmarks
by Richard Jensen, Qiang Shen (The University
of Edinburgh, UK) |
15:00 - 15:20 |
Average-Clicks: A New Measure of Distance
on the World Wide Web
by Yutaka Matsuo, Yukio Ohsawa, Mitsuru
Ishizuka
(The University of Tokyo, Japan) |
15:20 - 15:40 |
Autonomy Oriented Load Balancing in Proxy
Cache Servers
by Kwok Ching Tsui, Jiming Liu, Hiu Lo
Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University) |
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Session 1B:
Formal Agent Theories
(14:00 - 15:45) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
SPY: A Multi-Agent Model Yielding Semantic
Properties
by Francesco Buccafurri, Domenico Rosaci,
Giuseppe M. L. Sarne,
Luigi Palopoli (University of Reggio
Calabria, Italy) |
14:20 - 14:40 |
ABT with Asynchronous Reordering
by Marius-Calin Silaghi, Djamila Sam-Haroud,
Boi Faltings
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Lausanne(EPFL),
Switzerland) |
14:40 - 15:00 |
Social Rationality and Cooperation
by Guido Boella (University of Torino,
Italy)
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15:00 - 15:15 |
Belief Revision in Type Theory
by Tijn Borghuis (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology,
The Netherlands)
Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University,
Scotland)
Rob Nederpelt (Eindhoven University of
Technology, The Netherlands) |
15:15 - 15:30 |
Heterogeneous BDI Agents II: Circumspect
Agents
by Maria Fasli (University of Essex, UK) |
15:30 - 15:45 |
A Preference-Driven Approach to Designing
Agent Systems
by Stefan J. Johansson (Blekinge Institute
of Technology, Sweden)
Johan Kummeneje (Stockholm University and
Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden) |
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Session 1C:
Agent Computational Architecture and Infrastructure
(14:00 - 15:40) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
Reasoning about Mutual-Belief among Multiple
Cooperative Agents
by Wenpin Jiao (University of Victoria,
Canada) |
14:20 - 14:40 |
Portable Resource Control for Mobile Multi-Agent
Systems in JAVA
by Walter Binder (CoCo Software Engineering
GmbH, Austria)
Jarle G. Hulaas, Alex Villazon, Rory G.
Vidal
(University of Geneva, Switzerland) |
14:40 - 14:55 |
An Agent-Based Mobile E-Commerce Service
Platform for Forestry and Agriculture
by Matthias Klusch, Andreas Gerber (German
Research Center for AI, Germany) |
14:55 - 15:10 |
An Itinerary Scripting Language for Mobile
Agents in Enterprise Applications
by Seng Wai Loke (RMIT University, Australia)
Arkady Zaslavsky, Brian Yap, Joseph Fonseka
(Monash University, Australia) |
15:10 - 15:25 |
Intelligent Agents for Mobile Commerce
Services
by Mihhail Matskin (Norwegian University
of Sceince and Technology, Norway) |
15:25 - 15:40 |
A New Concept of Agent Architecture in
Agentspace
by Tomasz Nowak, Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz
(Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) |
15:40 - 16:00 Break
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Session 2A:
Web Human-Media Engineering
(16:00 - 18:00) |
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16:00 - 16:20 |
Towards Formal Specification of Client-Server
Interactions for
a Wide Range of Internet Applications
by Vadim Doubrovski (IBM GSA, Australia) |
16:20 - 16:40 |
Collecting, Visualizing, and Exchanging
Personal Interests and
Experiences in Communities
by Yasuyuki Sumi, Kenji Mase
(ATR Media Integration & Communications
Research Laboratories, Japan) |
16:40 - 17:00 |
Audio Content Description in Sound Databases
by Alicja A. Wieczorkowska (Polish-Japanese
Inst. Information Tech., Poland)
Zbigniew W. Ras (University of North Carolina,
USA) |
17:00 - 17:15 |
Intelligent Interfaces for Distributed
Web-Based
Product and Service Configuration
by Liliana Ardissono (Universitdi Torino,
Italy)
Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich,
D. Jannach, R. Schafer, M. Zanker
(Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria) |
17:15 - 17:30 |
Using Networked Workshop System to Enhance
Creative Design
by S.S.J. Lin, Eric Zhi-Feng Liu, M.C.
Cheng, Shyan-Ming Yuan
(National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) |
| 17:30 - 17:45 |
Discovering Seeds of New Interest Spread
from Premature Pages
Cited by Multiple Communities
by Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa, Mitsuru
Ishizuka
(University of Tokyo, Japan) |
17:45 - 18:00 |
Personalized Web Knowledge Management
by Koichi Takeda, Hiroshi Nomiyama
(Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Research,
Japan) |
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Session 2B:
Web Information Management
(16:00 - 18:05) |
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16:00 - 16:20 |
Event and Rule Services for Achieving a
Web-Based Knowledge Network
by Minsoo Lee, Stanley Y.W. Su, Herman
Lam (University of Florida, USA) |
16:20 - 16:40 |
Knowledge-Based Validation, Aggregation
and Visualization of
Meta-Data: Analyzing a Web-Based Information
System
by Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of
Bremen, Germany)
Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
16:40 - 17:00 |
On-Line Handwritten Signature Verification
for
Electronic Commerce over the Internet
by Wijerupage Sardha Wijesoma, Kwok Wai
Yue, Kwok Lam Chien, Tuck Kwong Chow
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) |
17:00 - 17:20 |
A Data Model for XML Databases
by Vilas Wuwongse (Asian Institute of Technology,
Thailand)
Kiyoshi Akama (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Chutiporn Anutariya (Asian Institute of
Technology, Thailand)
Ekawit Nantajeewarawat (Thammasat University,
Thailand) |
17:20 - 17:35 |
Conference Information Management System:
Towards a Personal Assistant System
by Tsunenori Mine, Makoto Amamiya (Kyushu
University, Japan)
Teruko Mitamura (Carnegie Mellon University,
USA) |
17:35 - 17:50 |
Automatic Intelligence Gathering from the
Web:
A Case Study in Container Traffic
by Jose Perdigao, Anjula Garg, Thomas Barbas,
Stefan Scheer
(European Commission, Joint Research Centre,
Italy)
Giuseppe Mastrangelo, G. Rubino (Origin
Italia Spa, Italy) |
17:50 - 18:05 |
The Work Concept RBAC Model for the Access
Control of
the Distributed Web Server Environment
by Won Bo Shim, Seog Park (Sogang University,
Korea) |
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Session 2C:
Agent Learning and Adaptation (1)
(16:00 - 18:00) |
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16:00 - 16:20 |
Parrondo Strategies for Artificial Traders
by Magnus Boman (Swedish Institute of Computer
Science(SICS), Sweden)
Stefan J. Johansson (Blekinge Institute
of Technology, Sweden)
David Lyback (OM, Sweden) |
16:20 - 16:40 |
BDI Multi-Agent Learning Based on First-Order
Induction of
Logical Decision Trees
by Alejandro Guerra Hernandez, Amal El-Fallah
Seghrouchni, Henry Soldano
(Universite Paris 13, France) |
16:40 - 17:00 |
Evolutionary Behaviors of Competitive Agents
in Dilemma Situation
by Tin Tin Naing, Lifeng He, Atsuko Mutoh,
Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Hidenori Itoh
(Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) |
17:00 - 17:20 |
A Strategy for Creating Initial Data on
Active Learning of Multi-Layer
Perceptron
by Kazunori Iwata, Naohiro Ishii (Nagoya
Institute of Technology, Japan) |
17:20 - 17:40 |
Equilibrium Selection in a Sequential Multi-Issue
Bargaining Model
with Evolutionary Agents
by Norberto Eiji Nawa, Katsunori Shimohara
(ATR International-ISD & Kyoto University,
Japan)
Osamu Katai (Kyoto University, Japan) |
17:40 - 18:00 |
Affect and Agent Control: Experiments with
Simple Affective States
by Matthias Scheutz (University of Notre
Dame, UK)
Aaron Sloman (The University of Birmingham,
UK) |
19:00 - 21:00 Reception
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| (at Rinko-kaku that is a traditional Japanese
guest house constructed in 1884) |
Welcome to Maebashi City
Yasoji Hagiwara (The Mayor of Maebashi)
Welcome to Gunma Prefecture
Arata Goto (Director General, Dept. of
Commerce, Industry and Labor, Gunma Prefecture
Government) |
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9:00 - 9:50 |
IAT Invited Talk (1):
Approximate Reasoning by Agents in Distributed
Environments
by Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw University,
Poland) |
9:50 - 10:40 |
WI Invited Talk (1):
From Computational Intelligence to Web
Intelligence
by Nick Cercone (University of Waterloo,
Canada) |
10:40 - 11:00 Break
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Session 3A:
Web Information Retrieval (1)
(11:00 - 12:45) |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
A Contextual Term Suggestion Mechanism for
Interactive Web Search
by Chien-Kang Huang, Yen-Jen Oyang (National
Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Lee-Feng Chien (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) |
11:20 - 11:40 |
3DGML: A 3-Dimensional Graphic Information
Retrieval System
by Jong Ha Hwang, Keung Hae Lee, Soochan
Hwang
(Hankuk Aviation University, Korea) |
11:40 - 12:00 |
An Evolutionary Approach to Automatic Web
Page Categorization and Updating
by Vincenzo Loia, Paolo Luongo (University
of Salerno, Italy) |
| 12:00 - 12:15 |
MELISSA: Mobile Electronic LSA Internet Server
Search Agent
by Hal D. Brian (US Navy, USA)
Max H. Garzon (The University of Memphis,
USA) |
12:15 - 12:30 |
Construction of a Fuzzy Multilingual Thesaurus
and Its Application to
Cross-Lingual Text Retrieval
by Rowena Chau, Chung-Hsing Yeh (Monash
University, Australia) |
12:30 - 12:45 |
Declustering Web Content Indices for Parallel
Information Retrieval
by Yoojin Chung, Hyuk-Chul Kwon, Sang-Hwa
Chung, Kwang Ryel Ryu
(Pusan National University, Korea) |
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Session 3B:
Web Agents
(11:00 - 12:45) |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
Collaborative Filtering Using Principal Component
Analysis
and Fuzzy Clustering
by Katsuhiro Honda, Nobukazu Sugiura, Hidetomo
Ichihashi
(Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
Shoichi Araki (Matsushita Electric Industrial
Co.,Ltd., Japan) |
11:20 - 11:40 |
iJADE IWShopper: A New Age of Intelligent
Mobile Web Shopping
System based on Fuzzy-neuro Agent Technology
by Raymond S. T. Lee (Hong Kong Polytechnic
University) |
11:40 - 12:00 |
Wireless Agent Guidance of Remote Mobile
Robots:
Rough Integral Approach to Sensor Signal
Analysis
by J.F. Peters, S. Ramanna (University
of Manitoba, Canada)
A. Skowron (Warsaw University, Poland)
M. Borkowski (University of Manitoba, Canada) |
12:00 - 12:15 |
Ontology-Based Information Gathering Agents
by Yi-Jia Chen (Indistrial Technology Research
Institute, Taiwan)
Von-Wun Soo (National Tsing Hua University,
Taiwan) |
12:15 - 12:30 |
An Effective Conversational Agent with User
Modeling Based on Bayesian Network
by Seung-Ik Lee, Chul Sung, Sung-Bae Cho
(Yonsei university, Korea) |
12:30 - 12:45 |
Information Fusion for Intelligent Agent-Based
Information Gathering
by Yuefeng Li (Quennsland University of
Technology, Australia) |
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Session 3C:
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Agents
(11:00 - 12:45) |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
CM-RELVIEW: A Tool for Causal Reasoning in
Multi-Agent Environments
by Brahim Chaib-Draa (Laval University,
Canada) |
11:20 - 11:40 |
User's Ontology-Based Autonomous Interface
Agents
by Tarek Helmy, Satoshi Amamiya, Makoto
Amamiya (Kyushu University, Japan) |
11:40 - 12:00 |
Integration and Reuse of Heterogeneous XML
DTDs for Information Agents
by Euna Jeong (National Taiwan University)
Chun-Nan Hsu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) |
12:00 - 12:15 |
Virtual Museum's Assistant
by Osvaldo Cairo, Ana Aldeco, Mar Elena
Algorri (ITAM, Mexico) |
12:15 - 12:30 |
Index Based Document Classification with
CC4 Neural Networks
by Enhong Chen, Zhengya Zhang, Xufa Wang,
Jie Yang
(University of Science and Technology of
China, China) |
12:30 - 12:45 |
Price Watcher Agent for E-Commerce
by Simon Fong (E-Netique Pte, Ltd., Singapore)
Aixin Sun, Kin Keong Wong (Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore) |
12:45 - 14:00 Conference Lunch
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14:00 - 14:50 |
WI Invited Talk (2):
Pedagogical Agents for Web-Based Learning
by W. Lewis Johnson (University of Southern
California, USA) |
14:50 - 15:40 |
IAT Invited Talk (2):
Query Answering based on Distributed Knowledge
Mining
by Zbigniew W. Ras (University of North
Carolina, USA) |
15:40 - 16:00 Break
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Session 4A:
Web Mining and Farming (1)
(16:00 - 17:40) |
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16:00 - 16:20 |
Implementation Issue and Paradigms of Visual
KDD Systems
by Jianchao Han, Nick Cercone (University
of Waterloo, Canada) |
16:20 - 16:40 |
Re-engineering Approach to Build Domain Ontologies
by Ahmad Kayed, Robert Colomb (The University
of Queensland, Australia) |
16:40 - 17:00 |
Discovery of Emerging Topics between Communities
on WWW
by Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa, Mitsuru
Ishizuka
(University of Tokyo, Japan) |
17:00 - 17:20 |
Mining Web Logs to Improve Web Caching and
Prefetching
by Qiang Yang, Henry H. Zhang, Ian T.Y.
Li, Ye Lu
(Simon Fraser University, Canada) |
17:20 - 17:40 |
Mining Crawled Data and Visualizing Discovered
Knowledge
by Vincent Dubois (IRIN, France)
Mohamed Quafafou (University of Nantes,
France)
Benjamin Habegger (IRIN, France) |
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Session 4B:
Web Information Retrieval (2)
(16:00 - 17:45) |
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16:00 - 16:20 |
Automatic Web-Page Classification by Using
Machine Learning Methods
by Makoto Tsukada, Takashi Washio, Hiroshi
Motoda (Osaka University, Japan) |
16:20 - 16:40 |
A Theory and Approach to Improving Relevance
Ranking in Web Retrieval
by Zhiwei Wang, Brien R. Maguire (University
of Regina, Canada) |
16:40 - 17:00 |
A Fast Image-Gathering System on the World-Wide
Web Using a PC Cluster
by Keiji Yanai, Masaya Shindo, Kohei Noshita
(University of Electro-Comunications, Japan) |
17:00 - 17:15 |
Indexing a Web Site to Highlight its Content
by E. Desmontils, C. Jacquin (IRIN, France) |
17:15 - 17:30 |
Using Implicit Relevance Feedback in a Web
Search Assistant
by Maria Fasli, Udo Kruschwitz (University
of Essex, UK) |
17:30 - 17:45 |
The Development and Evaluation of an Integrated
Imagery Access Engine
by Toru Fukumoto, Kanji Akahori (Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Japan) |
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Session 4C:
Distributed Intelligence (1)
(16:00 - 17:40) |
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16:00 - 16:20 |
An Intelligent Channel Allocation Scheme
for Mobile Networks:
An Application of Agent Technology
by Eliane L. Bodanese
(Centro Federal de Educacao Tecnologica
do Parana, Brazil)
Laurie G. Cuthbert (University of London,
England) |
16:20 - 16:40 |
An Atomic Approach to Agent-Based Imagery
and Geospatial Problem Solving
by James J. Nolan, Robert Simon, Arun K.
Sood (George Mason University, USA) |
16:40 - 17:00 |
Model-Based Creation of Agents and Distribution
of Problem Solving
by Katsuaki Tanaka, Setsuo Ohsuga (Waseda
University, Japan) |
17:00 - 17:20 |
A Distributed Algorithm for Coalition Formation
Among E-Commerce Agents
by Guillaume Vauvert, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni
(Universite Paris 13, France) |
17:20 - 17:40 |
Optimal Reward Functions in Distributed Reinforcement
Learning
by David H. Wolpert, Kagan Tumer (NASA
Ames Research Center, USA) |
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| 17:40 - 19:00 Demoes Session |
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(1) An Evolutionary Distribution System
for Web-Based Teaching Materials
by Takashi Ishikawa, Hiroshi Matsuda, and
Hiroshi Takase
(Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan)
(2) Designing adaptive distance learning
systems via Collaboration over the Web
by Alexandra I. Cristea (Technical University
Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
(3) The Web Access Control System Using
the Work Concept RBAC Model
in the Distributed Web Server Environment
by Won Bo Shim, Seog Park (Sogang University,
Korea)
(4) Pinpoint and Personalized Web Searching
on Kodama Agents
by Tarek Helmy, Satoshi Amamiya, Makoto
Amamiya
(Kyushu University, Japan)
(5) AgentSalon: Supporting Face-to-Face
Knowledge Exchanges in Communities
by Yasuyuki Sumi, Kenji Mase
(ATR Media Integration & Communications
Research Laboratories, Japan)
(6) Web Analytical Solution
by Xiaolong Zhang, Tetsuo Narita (IBM Japan
Ltd., Japan)
(7) iJADE IWShopper: A New Age of Intelligent
Mobile Web Shopping System
based on Fuzzy-neuro Agent Technology
by Raymond S.T. Lee (Hong Kong Polytechnic
University)
(8) Adaptive Migration Strategy for Mobile
Agents on Internet
by DongChun Lee, JeomGoo Kim (Howon University,
Korea)
(9) Agent-based Decision Support Framework
for Asynchronous Negotiation
of Resource Transfer Planning
by Masanori Akiyoshi, Kazuhiro Abe (Mitsubishi
Electric Corp., Japan)
Takahisa Ono, Yoshiharu Tabinoki (Tokyo
Electric Power Company, Japan)
(10) INFOPIPES: A Flexible Framework for
M-Commerce Applications
by Dipl.-Ing. Marcus Herzog (Vienna University
of Technology, Austria)
(11) An atomic approach to agent-based
imagery and geospatial problem solving
by James J. Nolan, Robert Simon, Arun Sood
(George Mason University, USA)
(12) Model-Based Creation of Agents and
Distribution of Problem Solving
by Katsuaki Tanaka, Setsuo Ohsuga (Waseda
University, Japan)
(13) Argument-Based Agent Systems
by Y. Toda, M. Yamashita, Y. Inagaki,
Y. Umeda, H. Sawamura
(Niigata U., Japan)
(14) Verity Personalization Engine
by Mani Abrol, Uma Mahadevan, Rajat Mukherjee,
Prabhakar Raghavan,
Michel Tourn (Verity Inc., USA)
(15) Verity Thematic Mapping: Automatic
Theme Discovery in Document Corpus
by Christina Chung, Jinhui Liu, Alpha
Luk, Jianchang Mao,
Prabhakar Raghavan, Sumit Taank, Vamsi
Vutukuru (Verity Inc., USA)
(16) A New Concept of Agent Architecture
in Agentspace
by Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz and Tomasz
Nowak.
(Polish Academy of Sciences and U. Podlasie,
Poland)
(17) Real Estate E-Business System
by A. Kaklauskas (Vilnius Gediminas Technical
University, Lithuania)
(18) Mobile Agent for Web Testing"
by Min-Hsiang Chuang (TungHai U., Taiwen)
(19) A Knowledge-Based Accounting Entry
Classification System
Using Customer Profiling Technology
by Yoshiaki Nagai (AdIn Research, Inc.,
Japan)
(20) A Campus Information System Used Mobile
Phones
by Japan Research Institute, Limited and
Kyoritsu Women's Junior College, Japan
(21) AMO: An Autonomous Mobile Agent System
by Japan Research Institute, Limited, Japan
(22) CPlanT Multi-Agent System for Operations Other than War (OOTW)
Coalition Planning
by Michal Pechoucek, Jaroslav Barta, Vladimir Marik
(Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
(23) MATCHPOINT: Information Retrieval Solution
by Joaquin Delgado (TripleHop Technologies, Inc., USA)
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19:00 - 20:30 Conference Dinner
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9:00 - 9:50 |
WI Invited Talk (3):
3D Object Recognition and Visualization
on the Web
by Patrick Wang (Northeastern University,
USA) |
9:50 - 10:40 |
IAT Invited Talk (3):
Social Intelligence Design for Knowledge
Creating Communities
by Toyoaki Nishida (University of Tokyo,
Japan) |
10:40 - 11:00 Break
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Session 5A:
Web Mining and Farming (2)
(11:00 - 12:45) |
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11:00 - 11:15 |
Categorizing Visitors Dynamically by Fast
and Robust Clustering of Access Logs
by Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Jianhua Yang
(University of Newcastle, Australia) |
11:15 - 11:30 |
Online Learning for Web Query Generation:
Finding Documents
Matching a Minority Concept on the Web
by Rayid Ghani, Rosie Jones, Dunja Mladenic
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA) |
11:30 - 11:45 |
A Formal Ontology Discovery from Web Documents
by Norihiro Ogata (Osaka University, Japan) |
11:45 - 12:00 |
The Variable Precision Rough Set Model for
Web Usage Mining
by V. Uma Maheswari, Arul Siromoney, K.M.
Mehata (Anna University, India) |
12:00 - 12:15 |
Supporting Cooperative Consensus Formation
via Ontologies
by Kaoru Sumi, Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka
University, Japan) |
12:15 - 12:30 |
Leveraging a Web-Aware Self-organization
Map Tool for
Clustering and Visualization
by Sheng-Tun Li
(National Kaohsiung First University of
Science and Technology, Taiwan) |
12:30 - 12:45 |
Automated Information Extraction from Web
Pages Using
An Interactive Learning Agent
by Jugal K. Kalita, Paritosh Rohilla (University
of Colorado, USA) |
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Session 5B:
Web-Based Applications (1)
(11:00 - 12:45) |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
Modeling User Preferences to Facilitate More
Automated and Accurate
Transaction Brokering within Heterogeneous
Multi-Agent Electronic Markets
by Gaurav Tewari, Pattie Maes, Aleksandr
Berkovich, Vladislav Gabovich
(MIT Media Laboratory, USA) |
11:20 - 11:40 |
Electronic Homework on the WWW
by Chunnian Liu, Lei Zheng, Junzhong Ji,
Chengzhong Yang, Jingyue Li,
Wensheng Yang (Beijing Polytechnic University,
China) |
11:40 - 12:00 |
The Shopping Gate - Enabling Role- and Preference-Specific
e-Commerce Shopping Experiences
by Markus Stolze, Michael Strobel
(IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory,
Switzerland) |
12:00 - 12:15 |
Building Reusable and Adaptable Web-Based
Courses
by Paola Forcheri, Maria Teresa Molfino,
Stefano Moretti, Alfonso Quarati
(Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy) |
12:15 - 12:30 |
Group Learning Support System for Software
Engineering Education Web-Based
Collaboration Support between the Teacher
Side and the Student Groups
by Atsuo Hazeyama, Akiko Nakano, Sachiko
Nakajima, Keiji Osada
(Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan) |
12:30 - 12:45 |
Web Based Digital Resource Library Tracing
Author's Quotation
by Youji Ochi, Yoneo Yano (Tokushima University,
Japan)
Riko Wakita (Fukui University, Japan) |
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Session 5C:
Agent Based Applications (1)
(11:00 - 12:45) |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
Kavanah: An Active User Interface Information
Retrieval Application
by Eugene Santos JR., Hien Nguyen (University
of Connecticut, USA)
Scott M. Brown (Air Force Research Laboratory,
USA) |
11:20 - 11:40 |
iJADE WeatherMAN - A Multi-Agent Fuzzy-Neuro
Network Based
Weather Prediction System
by Raymond Lee, James Liu, Jane You (Hong
Kong Polytechnic University) |
11:40 - 12:00 |
Acquaintance Models in Coalition Planning
for Humanitarian Relief Operation
by Michal Pechoucek, Vladimir Marik, Jaroslav
Barta
(Czech Technical University, Czech Republic) |
12:00 - 12:15 |
Attitude Based Agents in E-Commerce Applications
by Sherlock Au, N. Parameswaran (University
of New South Wales, Australia) |
12:15 - 12:30 |
Organizing Internet Agents According to a
Hierarchy of Information Domains
by Sylvie Cazalens, Philippe Lamarre (IRIN,
France) |
12:30 - 12:45 |
Introducing User Preference Modeling for
Meeting Scheduling
by Hon Wai Chun, Rebecca Y. M. Wong (City
University of Hong Kong) |
12:45 - 14:00 Conference Lunch
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14:00 Sightseeing Tour
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(to Ikaho hot spring resort area).
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18:00 - 20:00 Banquet (Best Papers Award Ceremony) |
(at Kogure Hotel in Ikaho)
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9:00 - 9:50 |
IAT Invited Talk (4):
Multi-agent Infrastructure for Agent Interoperation
in Open Computational Environments
by Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University,
USA) |
9:50 - 10:40 |
WI Invited Talk (4):
Ontological Engineering:
Foundation of the Next Generation Knowledge
Processing
by Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University,
Japan) |
10:40 - 11:00 Break
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Session 6A:
Agent Learning and Adaptation (2)
(11:00 - 12:45) |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
Meta-Learning Processes in Multi-Agent Systems
by Ron Sun (University of Missouri, USA) |
11:20 - 11:40 |
Scalability and the Evolution of Normative
Behavior
by Jorg Wellner (Chemnitz University of
Technology, Germany)
Sigmar Papendick (University of Konstanz,
Germany)
Werner Dilger (Chemnitz University of Technology,
Germany) |
11:40 - 12:00 |
Thinking-Learning by Argument
by Aladdin Ayesh (De Montfort University,
UK) |
12:00 - 12:15 |
Evolution of a Foraging Model with Many Individuals
by Kin-selection
by Kazue Kinoshita, Atsuko Mutoh, Tsuyoshi
Nakamura, Hidenori Itoh
(Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) |
12:15 - 12:30 |
The Use of Emergent Behaviour in a Multi-Agent
System to Drive
Self-Adaptation at the Interface
by Peter Marshall, Sue Greenwood (Oxford
Brookes University, UK) |
12:30 - 12:45 |
A Biologically Inspired Four Legged Robot
That Exhibits Some Natural
Walking Behaviours
by Shiqi Peng, G. R. Cole, C. P. Lam (Murdoch
University, Australia) |
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Session 6B:
Agent Based Applications (2)
(11:00 - 12:45) |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
Agent Negotiation in a Virtual Marketplace
by Walid S. Saba, Pratap R. Sathi (University
of Windsor, Canada) |
11:20 - 11:40 |
Web-Based Intelligent Call Center for an
Intensive Care Unit
by Kyungsook Han, Dongkyu Lee (Inha University,
South Korea) |
11:40 - 12:00 |
Executive Attentional Control in Autonomous
Robotic Agents
by Jason Garforth, Anthony Meehan, Sue
Mchale (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) |
12:00 - 12:15 |
Implementation and Analysis of Mobile Agents
in a Simulation
Environment for Fieldbus Systems
by Ralf Hunstock, U. Ruckert (University
of Paderborn, Germany)
Thomas Hanna (Siemens AG, Germany) |
12:15 - 12:30 |
Evaluating Believability in an Interactive
Narrative
by Jarmo Laaksolahti, Per Persson, Carolina
Palo
(Swedish Institute of Computer Science,
Sweden) |
12:30 - 12:45 |
iJADE Stock Predictor - An Intelligent Multi-Agent
Based Time Series
Stock Prediction System
by Raymond S. T. Lee, James N. K. Liu (Hong
Kong Polytechnic University) |
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Session 6C:
Distributed Intelligence (2)
(11:00 - 12:45) |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
Polygonal Approximation of Planar Digital
Curves Using Ant System
by Peng-Yeng Yin (Ming Chuan University,
Taiwan) |
11:20 - 11:40 |
A Biological View on Information Ecosystems
by Bengt Carlsson, Paul Davidsson
(Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) |
11:40 - 12:00 |
The CoDAC Collaboration Framework
by K. W. Ng, T. O. Lee (The Chinese University
of Hong Kong) |
12:00 - 12:15 |
A Multi-Agent Approach to Modelling Interaction
in Human Mathematical Reasoning
by Alison Pease, Simon Colton, Alan Smaill,
John Lee
(University of Edinburgh, UK) |
12:15 - 12:30 |
Secure Asynchronous Search
by Marius-Calin Silaghi, Djamila Sam-Haroud,
Boi Faltings
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Lausanne,
Switzerland) |
12:30 - 12:45 |
Foundations of Market-Driven Agents: An Adaptation
of Zeuthen's
Bargaining Model
by Kwang Mong Sim (Chinese University of
Hong Kong)
Chung Yu Choi (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) |
12:45 - 14:00 Conference Lunch
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14:00 - 14:50 |
WI Invited Talk (5):
Social Networks on the Web and in the Enterprise
by Prabhakar Raghavan (Verity Inc., USA) |
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Session 7A:
Business Agent Solutions
(14:50 - 16:05) |
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14:50 - 15:05 |
Agent Consumer Reports: of the Agents, by
the Agents, and for the Agents
by Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Timothy Finin
(University of Maryland, USA) |
15:05 - 15:20 |
21st Century Systems, INC.'s Agent Enabled
Decision Guide Environment
by Plamen V. Petrov (21st Century Systems,
Inc., USA)
Alexander D. Stoyen, Jeffrey D. Hicks
(University of Nebraska & 21st Century
Systems, Inc., USA)
Gregory J. Myers (21st Century Systems,
Inc., USA) |
15:20 - 15:35 |
An Intelligent Agent with Structured Pattern
Matching for
A Virtual Representative
by Seung-ik Lee, Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University,
Korea) |
15:35 - 15:50 |
A Calendar Management Agent with Fuzzy Logic
by Wayne Wobcke (University of Melbourne,
Australia) |
15:50 - 16:05 |
Simulating Day-Ahead Trading in Electricity
Markets with Agents
by Max Scheidt, Hans-Jurgen Sebastian
(Aachen University of Technology, Germany) |
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Session 7B:
Web Information System Environment and Foundations
(2)
(14:50 - 16:05) |
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14:50 - 15:05 |
Emerging Topic Tracking System
by Khoo Khyou Bun, Mitsuru Ishizuka (The
University of Tokyo, Japan) |
15:05 - 15:20 |
On Axiomatizing Probabilistic Conditional
Independencies in Bayesian Networks
by C.J. Butz (University of Ottawa, Canada) |
15:20 - 15:35 |
Dynamic Expert Group Models for Recommender
Systems
by DaeEun Kim (University of Edinburgh,
UK)
Sea Woo Kim (KAIST, Korea) |
15:35 - 15:50 |
The ABC's of Online Community
by Robert McArthur, Peter Bruza
(Distributed Systems Technology Centre,
Australia) |
15:50 - 16:05 |
Sufficient Conditions for Well-Behaved Adaptive
Hypermedia Systems
by Hongjing Wu, Paul De Bra
(Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands) |
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Session 7C:
Web Information Retrieval (3)
(14:50 - 16:05) |
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14:50 - 15:05 |
Conceptual Information Extraction with
Link-Based Search
by Kyung-Joong Kim, Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei
University, Korea) |
15:05 - 15:20 |
World Wide Web - A Multilingual Language
Resource
by Fang Li, Huanye Sheng (Shanghai Jiao
Tong University, China)
W. Weisweber (Technical University of Berlin,
Germany) |
15:20 - 15:35 |
Query by History Tree Manipulation
by Takashi Sakairi, Hiroshi Nomiyama
(IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory,
Japan) |
15:35 - 15:50 |
Web-Based Information Retrieval Using Agent
and Ontology
by Kwang Mong Sim (Chinese University of
Hong Kong)
Pui Tak Wong (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) |
15:50 - 16:05 |
Content-Based Sound Retrieval for Web Application
by Chunru Wan, Mingchun Liu, Lipo Wang
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) |
16:05 - 16:20 Break
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Session 8A:
Web-Based Active Contents
(16:20 - 17:35) |
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16:20 - 16:35 |
XML Based Multi-Agent Collaboration for Active
Digital Libraries
by Yanyan Yang, Omer F. Rana, David W.
Walker (Cardiff University, UK)
Roy Williams (California Institute of Technology,
USA)
Giovanni Aloisio (University of Lecce,
Italy) |
16:35 - 16:50 |
An Adaptive Recommendation System with a
Coordinator Agent
by Myungeun Lim, Juntae Kim (Dongguk University,
Korea) |
16:50 - 17:05 |
Interactive Web Page Filtering with Relational
Learning
by Masayuki Okabe (Japan Science and Technology
Corporation, Japan)
Seiji Yamada (Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Japan) |
17:05 - 17:20 |
A Fuzzy Rule-Based Agent for Web Retrieval-Filtering
by S. Vrettos, A. Stafylopatis
(National Technical University of Athens,
Greece) |
17:20 - 17:35 |
Using Mobile Agents to Update and Maintain
Course Materials on
Students' Computers in Internet-Based Distance
Education
by Hongxue Wang, Pete Holt (Athabasca University,
Canada) |
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Session 8B:
Advanced Topics and New Methodologies
(16:20 - 17:35) |
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16:20 - 16:35 |
Logical Formalizations Built on Game-Theoretic
Argument about Commitments
by Lamber Royakkers (Eindhoven University
of Technology, The Netherlands)
Vincent Buskens (Utrecht University, The
Netherlands) |
16:35 - 16:50 |
Asynchronous Consistency Maintenance
by Marius-Calin Silaghi, Djamila Sam-Haroud,
Boi Faltings
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Lausanne,
Switzerland)
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16:50 - 17:05 |
Proactiveness and Effective Observer Mechanisms
in Intelligent Agents
by Jon Plumley, Kuo-Ming Chao, Rachid Anane,
Nick Godwin
(Coventry University, UK) |
17:05 - 17:20 |
A New Conceptual Graph Generated Algorithm
for Semi-structured Databases
by Kam Fai Wong, Yat Fan Su (Chinese University
of Hong Kong)
Dongqing Yang, Shiwei Tang (Peking University,
China) |
17:20 - 17:35 |
Approximate Sensor Fusion in a Navigation
Agent
by J. F. Peters, S. Ramanna, M. Borkowski
(University of Manitoba, Canada)
A. Skowron (Warsaw University, Poland) |
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Session 8C:
Web-Based Applications (2)
(16:20 - 17:35) |
16:20 - 16:35 |
Experiencing NetPeas: Another Way of Learning
by Eric Zhi-Feng Liu, Sunny S.J. Lin, Shyan-Ming
Yuan
(National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) |
16:35 - 16:50 |
ITMS: Individualized Teaching Material System
- Web-Based Exploratory
Learning Support System by Adaptive Knowledge
Integration
by Hiroyuki Mitsuhara, Youji Ochi, Yoneo
Yano (Tokushima University, Japan) |
16:50 - 17:05 |
An Intelligent Sales Assistant for Configurable
Products
by Martin Molina (Technical University
of Madrid, Spain) |
17:05 - 17:20 |
Reconciling of Disagreeing Data in Web-Based
Distributed Systems
Using Consensus Methods
by Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (Wroclaw University
of Technology, Poland) |
17:20 - 17:35 |
The Intelligent Electronic Shopping System
Based on Bayesian Customer Modeling
by Junzhong Ji, Lei Zheng, Chunnian Liu
(Beijing Polytechnic University, China) |
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Call for Participation and Advance Program
INTRODUCTION
October 23, Tuesday