IEEE/WIC
International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'03)
IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'03)
October 13-16, 2003, Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax, Canada
Note: In the following Conference sessions, a regular paper is denoted by a symbol, and a short paper is denoted by a symbol. Each regular paper is allocated 20 minutes, and a short paper is allocated 10 minutes.
October 13, Monday |
||||
Time |
Workshops and Tutorials |
|||
08:30-09:00 |
Workshop and Tutorial On-site Registration |
|||
09:00-10:15 |
W1: Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence |
W2: Applications, Products and Services of Web-based Support Systems |
W3: Collaboration Agents: Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Environments |
|
10:15-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
|||
10:30-12:00 |
W1: Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence (Cont.) |
W2: Applications, Products and Services of Web-based Support Systems (Cont.) |
W3: Collaboration Agents: Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Environments (Cont.) |
|
12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
|||
13:30-15:30 |
W1: Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence (Cont.) |
W2: Applications, Products and Services of Web-based Support Systems (Cont.) |
W3: Collaboration Agents: Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Environments (Cont.) |
T1:
A Glimpse at the Future of Agent Technology |
15:30-15:40 |
Coffee Break |
|||
15:40-17:40 |
W1: Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence (Cont.) |
W2: Applications, Products and Services of Web-based Support Systems(Cont.) |
W3: Collaboration Agents: Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Environments (Cont.) |
T2:
Adaptive Web-based Systems: Technologies and Examples |
16:00-18:30 |
Conference On-site Registration |
October 14, Tuesday |
|||
Time |
Sessions |
||
08:00-08:50 |
Conference On-site Registration |
||
08:50-09:00 |
Opening Address |
||
09:00-09:45 |
Invited
Talk 1 (Chair: Nick Cercone): "Mining
and Monitoring Data Streams", Dr. Philip S. Yu |
||
09:45-10:30 |
Invited Talk 2 (Chair: Boi Faltings): "Reasoning about Cooperation", Prof. Michael Wooldridge |
||
10:30-10:50 |
Coffee Break |
||
10:50-12:20 (90) |
Session 1A (IAT) (Chair: Jesus Favela): Agent Behaviors and Reinforcement Learning (1) |
Session 1B (WI) (Chair: Chunnian Liu): Web Mining and Data Engineering (1) |
Session 1C (WI) (Chair: Jiming Liu): Web Topology and Social Networks (1) |
Regular: Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems:
A Formal Approach Representing and Enforcing
Interaction Protocols in Multi-Agent Systems: An Approach Based on Conceptual
Graphs Controlling Malevolent
Behavior in Open Multi-Agent Systems by Means of Deterrence Theory Modeling and Specifying
Scenarios and Agent Behaviors |
Regular: Mining Answers in German Web Pages
Generic Text Summarization
Using Local and Global Properties of Sentences Incremental Personalized Web Page
Mining Utilizing Self-Organizing HCMAC Neural Network Short: Temporal Web Usage Mining A Data-Mining Approach for Optimizing
Performance of an Incremental Crawler Web Farming and Data Warehousing for Energy
Tradefloors |
Regular: Local Policies for the Control of
Virtual Communities Mining Social Network
of Conference Participants from the Web
Detecting Near-Replicas on
the Web by Content and Hyperlink Analysis PageRank and Web Communities
Short: Community-Based Model and Access Control
for Information Grid Social Scheduler: A Proposal of Collaborative
Personal Task Management |
|
12:20-13:20 |
Lunch |
||
13:20-15:00 (100) |
Session 2A (IAT) (Chair: Boi Faltings): Distributed Problem Solving |
Session 2B (IAT) (Chair: Shahram Rahimi): Task-Oriented Agents |
Session 2C (WI) (Chair: Y. Y. Yao): Web Prefetching |
Regular: A Distributed Agent Approach to Global
Transportation Scheduling Efficiency of Emergent Constraint
Satisfaction in Small-World and Random Agent Networks Problem-Solving in Open Environments
Short: HOWTO: Asynchronous PFC-MRDAC-Optimization in Distributed
Constraint Problems +- Adopt Arithmetic Circuit for the First Solution of Distributed
CSPs with Cryptographic Multi-Party Computations Problem Solving with Attitude and the Theory of
Reasoned Action A New Distributed Approach to Solve Meeting Scheduling
Problems |
Regular: Tasks as Context for Intelligent
Agents Mission Impossible?
Automatically Assembling Agents from High-Level Task Descriptions
A Task-Oriented Agent-Based
Mechanism for Theorem Proving Multi-Agent Planning
as a Coordination Model for Self-Organized Systems A Resource-Based Framework
for Planning and Replanning Short: Human-Agent Viewpoint Similarity Based on Terminological
Logic for Mixed-Initiative Planning |
Regular: Exploiting Webspace Organization
for Accelerating Web Prefetching CARP Compliant Proxy
Enforcer Frame Work A Real-Time Evolutionary Algorithm
for Web Prediction Short: Web Prefetching Using Display-Based Prediction
WebScout: Support for Revisitation of Web Pages
within a Navigation Session LRU Based Small Latency First Replacement (SLFR)
Algorithm for the Proxy Cache |
|
15:00-15:10 |
Break |
||
15:10-16:50
(100) |
Session 3A (IAT) (Chair: Jiming Liu): Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
|
Session 3B (IAT) (Chair: Jeffery M. Bradshaw): Autonomous Pricing and Negotiation
(1) |
Session 3C (WI) (Chair: Yiming Ye):
Ontology Engineering (1) |
Regular: Assistive Ecologies-Bio-Mimetic Design
of Ambient Intelligence Modeling Agent-Based
Load Balancing with Time Delays Proxy Ecology-Cooperative Proxies
with Artificial Life Short: Network Load Balancing Algorithm Using Ants Computing
Discrete Bee Dance Algorithms for Pattern Formation
on a Grid MPIAB: A Novel Agent Architecture for Parallel
Processing Soft Gene, Role, Agent: MABS Learns from Sociology
|
Regular: Dynamic Stochastic Capacity Pricing
for Resource Allocation The Use of Hybrid
Negotiation in Resource Coordination Among Agents Dynamic Inference
of Perceptual Categories in Negotiating Agents Belief Revision for Adaptive Negotiation
Agents Short: Multi-Agent Coalition via Autonomous Price Negotiation
in a Real-Time Web Environment Privilege Negotiation Agents for Distributed Authorization
on World Wide Web |
Regular: Semantic Web Complex Ontology Mapping
Ontology-Based Web
Mining Model: Representations of User Profiles Integrating Ontological
and Linguistic Knowledge for Conceptual Information Extraction Semantic Reliability in Distributed
Systems: Ontology Issues and System Engineering Short: Building an Ontology Based on Hub Words for Information
Retrieval IISM: An Image Internal Semantic Model for Image
Database Based on Relevance Feedback |
|
16:50-17:10 |
Coffee Break |
||
17:10-18:50
(100) |
Session 4A (IAT) (Chair: John Yen): Autonomous Information Services
|
Session 4B (WI) (Chair: Kwei-Jay Lin): Context-Aware Computing |
Session 4C (WI) (Chair: Soe-Tsyr Yuan):
Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation (1) |
An Agent-Based Digital Self in 24/7 Web
Services World: Architecture and Implementation
Autonomous Information Services Integration
and Allocation in Agent-Based Information Service System
A Neural Multi-Agent Based System for Smart
HTML Pages Retrieval
Combining Reactive and Deliberative Agents
for Complete Ecosystems in Infospheres Short:
Odaies: Ontology-Driven Adaptive Web Information
Extraction System
Learning DNF Concepts by Constrained Clustering
of Positive Instances |
Regular: Music Information Retrieval by Detecting
Mood via Computational Media Aesthetics
MobiShare: Sharing Context-Dependent
Data and Services from Mobile Sources
Determining Remote System
Contention States in Query Processing over the Internet
Functionality Adaptation:
A Context-Aware Service Code Adaptation for Pervasive Computing Environments
Information-Need Driven Query Refinement Short: Constraining Model-Based Reasoning Using Contexts
Towards Know-When Technology in the Mobile Information
Space: Long-Term User Trace Log Analysis in the Mobile Internet |
Regular: Foundations of Unconstrained Collaborative
Web Browsing with Awareness
Clustering Approach for Hybrid
Recommender System
Online Recommendation Based
on Customer Shopping Model in E-Commerce
Improvements of Naive Bayes Collaborative
Filtering Using Interval Estimation Short: A Recommendation Algorithm Using Multi-Level Association
Rules
|
|
18:50-19:30 |
|
||
19:30-20:30 |
Reception |
October
15, Wednesday |
|||
Time |
Sessions |
||
08:30-09:15 |
Invited Talk 3 (Chair: Ning
Zhong): "Web
Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic-The Concept of Web IQ (WIQ)", Prof.
Lotfi A. Zadeh |
||
09:15-09:20 |
|
||
09:20-10:50 |
Session 5A (IAT) (Chair: Tarek Helmy): Embodied Agents and Agent-Based
System Applications (1) |
Session 5B (WI) (Chair: Einoshin Suzuki): Categorization and Ranking
(1) |
Session 5C (WI) (Chair: Jingtao Yao): Web Mining and Data
Engineering (2) |
Regular: A Hybrid Architecture for Autonomous
Navigation Using a CBR Reactive Layer MMASS Approach to Localization Problems
An Approach to Digitizing and Managing
Well-Logging Parameter Graphs with Agent-Based Perspective Short: Preliminary Performance Evaluation of an Agent-Based
Geospatial Data Conflation System Hybrid Intelligent System for Pricing the Indices
of Dual-Listing Stock Markets Introducing Software Agents to Support a Web-Based
Collective Activity |
Regular: Improving Web Usability by Categorizing
Information Web Image Retrieval Re-Ranking with
Relevance Model An Architecture to Support Navigation
and Propose Tips within a Dedicated Website Topic Continuity for Web Document
Categorization and Ranking Short: Incremental Document Clustering Using Cluster Similarity
Histograms |
Regular: Towards Modernized and Web-Specific
Stoplists for Web Document Analysis Querying and Clustering Web Pages
about Persons and Organizations Short: Attribute Reduction of Rough Sets in Mining
Market Value Functions Bidirectional Hierarchical Clustering for Web Mining A Text Mining Approach on Automatic Generation
of Web Directories and Hierarchies A System for Chinese Question Answering A Comparative Study of Zernike Moments |
|
10:50-11:10 |
Coffee Break |
||
11:10-12:40 (90) |
Session 6A (IAT) (Chair: Leendert van der Torre): |
Session 6B (WI) (Chair: Peter Brusilovsky): Web Services |
Session 6C (WI) (Chair: Chunnian Liu): Web Mining and Data
Engineering (3) |
An Investigation of the Long-Term Impact
of Knowledge Sharing on Multi-Agent Systems
A Software Engineering Process for BDI Agent-Based
Systems
On Need-Driven Proactive Information Exchanges
in Agent Teams Short: Formal Framework for Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems
Modeling the Behaviors of Players in Competitive
Environments
Identifiability of Causal Effects in a Multi-Agent
Causal Model
Enlarging the Applicability of a Failure Cause
Eradication Based Methodology |
Regular: WISE-Building Simple Intelligence
into Web Services Efficient Matchmaking and Directory
Services Configuring Web Services, Using Structuring
and Techniques from Agent Configuration Short: Automatic Composition of Web Service Workflows
Using a Semantic Agent Ubiquitous Service Interoperation through Polyarchical
Middleware Web-Based Medical Decision Support System for Neurological
Diseases |
Regular: WebKIV: Visualizing Structure and
Navigation for Web Mining Two-Phase Web Site Classification
Based on Hidden Markov Tree Models Short: Concept Decomposition by Fuzzy k-Means Algorithm
Using the KDD Process to Support Web Site Reconfigurations A New Facial Feature Extraction Method Based on
Linear Combination Model Research on Modeling with Dynamic Bayesian Networks
A Query Processing Algorithm for Hierarchical Markov
Networks |
|
12:40-13:40 |
Lunch |
||
13:40-14:25 |
Invited Talk 4 (Chair: Toyoaki
Nishida): "Grid Research in China and the Vega Grid Project at
ICT", Prof. Zhiwei Xu |
||
14:25-14:30 |
|
||
14:30-16:10 (100) |
Session 7A (IAT) (Chair: Leon Sterling): Embodied Agents and Agent-Based
System Applications (2) |
Session 7B (IAT) (Chair: Ron Sun): Autonomous Pricing and Negotiation
(2) |
Session 7C (WI) (Chair: Vijay Raghavan): Web Information Search
and Retrieval (1) |
Regular: FLIP: A Platform to Integrate Embodied
Agent Technology EMMA: An E-Mail Management Assistant
A New Approach of the Collaborative
User Interface Agents Short:
An Application of Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques
in Air Traffic Management A Multi-Agent System for Optimizing Urban Traffic
|
Regular: A Two-Level Negotiation Framework
for Complex Negotiations Integrative Negotiation in Complex
Organizational Agent Systems Designing Flexible Negotiation Agent
with Relaxed Decision Rules Agent-Based Decision Support for
Actual-World Procurement Scenarios Short: A Procedure for Mediating Between Service Requesters
and Providers Cost-Based Dynamic Reconfiguration System for Intelligent
Agent Negotiation |
Regular: Context Sensitive Text Mining and
Belief Revision for Adaptive Information Retrieval Short: Web-Based Information Retrieval Support Systems:
Building Research Tools for Scientists in the New Information Age
Web Intelligence in Information Retrieval Expected Value of User Sessions: Limitations to
the Non-Semantic Approach Evolutionary Reinforcement of User Models in an
Adaptive Search Engine Performance Management in Competitive Distributed
Web Search Video Browsing and Retrieval Based on Multimodal
Integration |
|
16:10-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
||
16:30-17:30 (60) |
Session 8A(WI) (Chair: Ali A. Ghorbani): Web Agents (1)
|
Session 8B (WI) (Chair: Craig Linn): Ontology Engineering
(2) |
Session 8C (WI) (Chair: Marco Gori): Web Topology and Social
Networks (2) |
Regular: Towards Holistic Web-Based Information
Retrieval: An Agent-Based Approach Exploiting a Search Engine to Develop
More Flexible Web Agents A QoS Network Routing Algorithm Using
Multiple Pheromone Tables |
Regular: Querying Spatiotemporal XML Using
DataFoX Implementing Explanation Ontology
for Agent System Trust Based Knowledge Outsourcing
for Semantic Web Agents |
Regular: Mining Web Site's Clusters from Link
Topology and Site Hierarchy Enhancing a Web-Based Distance-Learning
Curriculum with Dedicated Tools Graph Structures in Paragraph-Linked
Repositories |
|
17:30-17:35 |
Break |
||
17:35-18:35 (60) |
Session 9A (WI) (Chair: Kwang Mong Sim): Web Agents (2)
|
Session 9B (WI) (Chair: Josiah Poon): Categorization and Ranking
(2) |
Session 9C (IAT) (Chair: Marias Silaghi): Cooperative Problem Solving
|
Regular: Value Centric Trust in Multi-Agent
Systems Bayesian Network-Based Trust Model
Short: Web-Agents Inspired by Ethology: A Population of
"Ant"-Like Agents to Help Finding User-Oriented Information Web Agents for Requirements Consistency Management
AntWeb-The Adaptive Web Server Based on the Ants'
Behavior |
Regular: Detecting Hostile Accesses through
Incremental Subspace Clustering Web-Based Collection Selection Using
Singular Value Decomposition Social Cognitive Factors of Unfair
Ratings in Reputation Reporting Systems
Short: A Generalized Site Ranking Model for Web IR
|
Regular: Many Is More, But Not Too Many: Dimensions
of Cooperation of Agents with and without Predictive Capabilities
Strategies for Cooperative Search
in Distributed Databases Short: Collaboration Based on Hierachical Relationship
BDIGGY: A Cognitive Architecture for Cooperative
Problem Solving |
|
18:35-19:00 |
|
||
19:00-20:30 |
Banquet |
October 16, Thursday |
|||
Time |
Sessions |
||
08:30-09:15 |
Invited Talk 5 (Chair: Jiming Liu): "Web information Extraction
with Lixto: Visual Logic and Expressive Power, Prof. Georg Gottlob |
||
09:15-09:20 |
|
||
09:20-10:50
(90) |
Session 10A (IAT) (Chair: Wayne Wobcke): Agent Behaviors and Reinforcement Learning (2) |
Session 10B (WI) (Chair: Zhiwei Xu): E-Business and E-Technology (1) |
Session 10C (WI) (Chair: Jingtao Yao):
Web Information
Extraction and Management |
Regular: Asymmetric Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Living with Dynamic Concepts in Dynamic
Environments: Intelligent Agents that Adapt Themselves
Integrating Reinforcement Learning, Bidding
and Genetic Algorithms Short:
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Using OLAP-Based
Association Rules Mining
Q-Learning Automaton |
Regular: A Negotiation Strategy for Electronic Trade
Using Intelligent Agents
Service-Oriented Autonomous Decentralized
Community Communication Technique for a Complex Adaptive Information
System Short: Negotiation Paradigms Based on Knowledge Bead's
Methodology
WICE: A Web-Based Intelligent Cost Estimator for
Real-Time Decision Support
Adaptive Intelligent Environment for Remote Experimentation
A Comparative Framework for EB Systems Development
Methodologies |
Regular: A Knowledge Extraction Process Specification
for Today's Non-Semantic Web
Topic and Meta-Descriptor Extraction for
Text Description Short:
The Formalization of Argumentation and Its Application
in Network Computing A Hybrid Method for Web Data Extraction
Learning Information Extraction Patterns from Tabular
Web Pages without Manual Labeling
An Automated Management Tool for Unstructured Data
|
|
10:50-11:10 |
Coffee Break |
||
11:10-12:40
(90) |
Session 11A (WI) (Chair: Toyoaki Nishida):
Intelligent Human-Web
Interaction |
Session 11B (WI) (Chair: Ernestina Menasalvas):
E-Business and
E-Technology (2) |
Session 11C (WI) (Chair: Ning Zhong):
Web Mining and
Data Engineering (4) |
Short: A Novel Web Security Evaluation Model for a One-Time-Password
System
User Attributes in Web-Based Electronic Service
Adoption Model (E-SAM)
A Toolkit for Creating Personalized Presentations
Adaptive Web Interface Design Using Fuzzy Logic
Supporting the Interaction between User and Web-Based
Multimedia Information
Future View: Web Navigation Based on Learning User's
Browsing Patterns
Learning to Perform Moderation in Online Forums
Personalizing a Web Site for Cellular Phones
Intelligent User Interfaces for Web-Based Configuration
Systems |
Regular: An Online Multi-Agent E-Sales Recruitment
System
Bundling and Pricing for Information Brokerage:
Customer Satisfaction as a Means to Profit Optimization Short:
An Intelligent Agent-Mediated Web Trading Environment
A Simulation-Based Approach for Testing Market
Strategies in Electronic Marketplaces
Increasing Matchmaking Semantics in Intelligent
Commerce System |
Short: Matrix Dimensionality Reduction for Mining Web
Logs
Embedded Data Indexing for Fast Stream Interception
by Internet Appliances
Clustering for Web Information Hierarchy Mining
A Neural Network Based Approach to Automated E-Mail
Classification
Decreasing Saw-Tooth Priority (DSTP) Based Product
Data Classifier
A New Method for Query Generation Applied to Learning
Text Classifiers
Intelligent Mapping of Hyperspace
The Concept of Attribute Dimension and Corresponding
Operations |
|
12:40-14:00 |
Lunch |
||
14:00-15:40
(100) |
Session 12A (IAT) (Chair: Ville Kononen): Multi-Agent Systems, Modeling and Methodology (2) |
Session 12B (IAT) (Chair: Raymond Y. K. Lau): Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Agents (1) |
Session 12C (IAT) (Chair: Stephen Marsh): |
Regular: Norm Governed Multi-Agent Systems: The Delegation
of Control to Autonomous Agents
Inaccessibility in Multi-Agent Systems
Improving the Fault-Tolerance in MAS with
Dynamic Proxy Replicate Groups
CARLA-A CORBA-Based Architecture for Lightweight
Agents Short:
Knowledge Sharing in Default Reasoning Based Multi-Agent
Systems
A General Architecture for Autonomous Agents
|
Regular: Discovery and Sharing of Knowledge with
Self-Organized Agents
Discovery of Emergent Natural Laws by Hierarchical
Multi-Agent Systems
Classification Rule Discovery with Ant Colony
Optimization
Learning Knowledge Bases for Information
Extraction from Multiple Text-Based Web Sites Short:
Multi-Agent Technology for Distributed Data Mining
and Classification
Agent-Oriented Framework for Decision Tree Evolution
|
An XML-Based Multi-Agent System for
the User-Oriented Management of QoS in Telecommunications Networks
Multi-Agent Interaction Protocols
for E-Business Short: Using Self-Organization for Functional Integrity
Maintenance of Wireless Sensor Networks Validating Interaction in Ubiquitous Software Systems
Using Dialogue Oriented Interactions Distributed Ubiquitous Software Services Multi-Agent Autonomic Architecture and Its Application
in E-Medicine Virtual Enterprise Formation with Agents-An Approach
to Implementation Supporting Knowledge Management Infrastructure:
A Multi-Agent Approach |
|
15:40-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
||
16:00-17:00
(60) |
Session 13A (IAT) (Chair: Huaglory Tianfield): Mobile Agents |
Session 13B (IAT) (Chair: Vladimir Gorodetsky): Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Agents (2) |
Session 13C (WI) (Chair: Georg Gottlob): Web Information Search and Retrieval (2) |
Regular: Mobile Agents for Data Analysis in Industrial
Automation Systems Short:
A Programming Language for Autonomous and Mobile
Agents A JMS Message Transport Protocol for the JADE Platform
Adding Flexibility Using Structured Goals: The
Case of Itinerant Mobile Agents
Communicative Acts of Elvin-Enhanced Mobile Agents
|
Regular: Novel Vertical Mining on Diffsets Structure
The Role of Agents in Distributed Data Mining:
Issues and Benefits Short:
Web Course Self-Adaptation
Person Name Identification in Chinese Documents
Using Finite State Automata
|
Short: Towards Automatic Incorporation of Search Engines
into a Large-Scale Metasearch Engine
Using Psychological Word Database in Web Search
A Unified Fuzzy Feature Indexing Scheme for Region
Based Online Image Querying
An Efficient Internet Crawling and Filtering System
for the Nationwide Tendering Information Retrieval
A Framework for an Advanced Reading Support in
the Digital Library Age |
|
17:00-17:05 |
Break |
||
17:05-18:05
(60) |
Session 14A (IAT) (Chair: Xiaolong Jin): Agent-Based Simulation |
Session 14B (WI) (Chair: Kwok-Wai Cheung):
Collaborative Filtering
and Recommendation (2) |
Session 14C (IAT) (Chair: Seng W. Loke): Autonomous Auctions |
Regular: Method of Crowd Simulation by Using Multi-Agent
on Cellular Automata Short:
A New Agent-Based Framework for the Simulation
of Electricity Markets
Formal Framework for Modeling and Simulation of
DDoS Attacks Based on Teamwork of Hackers-Agents |
Regular: On the Temporal Analysis for Improved Hybrid
Recommendations Short: INTIMATE: A Web-Based Movie Recommender Using Text
Categorization
WebGuard: Web-Based Adult Content Detection and
Filtering System |
Regular: On Heuristics for Solving Winner Determination
Problem in Combinatorial Auctions
Artificial Software Agents on Thin Double
Auction Markets-A Human Trader Experiment Short:
SIMPLE-A Multi-Agent System for Simultaneous and
Related Auctions
Non-Refundable-Bid Auctions for Positions in a
Queue: A Decision-Theoretic Analysis |