Call for Papers

			   CIKM Workshop on

		    INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AGENTS

		     held in conjunction with the
				   
	    Fourth International Conference on Information
		  and Knowledge Management (CIKM'95)
				   
			   December 1-2, 1995

		       Omni Inner Harbor Hotel
		       Baltimore, Maryland, USA

		Sponsored by ACM SIGART and ACM SIGIR
	   In cooperation with NASA, Bellcore, NSF, AAAI*,
	   IEEE Computer Society*, SIGLINK, CACS/USL, UMBC


The CIKM95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents will bring
together a small number of researchers who are working on or
interested in exploring the use of agent-oriented paradigms in
information systems.  A partial list of topics relevant to the
workshop is:

  o agent communication and messaging languages
  o agent programming and scripting languages
  o agent theories and architectures
  o interaction and coordination protocols (negotiation, partial global
     planning etc.)
  o learning agents and trainable agents
  o information mediators and agent-based middleware
  o the role of shared ontologies in agent systems
  o agent-human interfaces
  o information filtering, retrieval, gathering and monitoring
  o resource discovery by and for agents
  o integrated agent testbeds
  o applications of agent technology to digital libraries, electronic
    commerce, education, command and control, information filtering, data
    mining, etc.

The workshop will consist of invited talks, individual presentations,
and group discussion. If you wish to present your work, please submit
a paper (up to 5000 words) or extended abstract (up to 2000 words).
To participate, please submit a short position paper. All submissions
should include an email address.  Graduate students who are engaged in
a relevant research project are encouraged to participate.  An
informal proceedings will be compiled from the extended abstracts and
research statements and distributed at the workshop.  Participants
will be encouraged to submit in advance electronic material or URLs
for an online "proceedings" to be made available on the web.

The workshop will begin on Friday afternoon, December 1 and run
through 5:00pm December 2.  There will be a joint reception for all of
the CIKM workshops on Friday evening.


FOR MORE INFORMATION:

To get more information on the workshop and to register your interest,
send email to iiaw-info@cs.umbc.edu.  You can also find current
information at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/iia/.  To get more
information on CIKM95 and to register your interest, send email to
cikm-info@cs.umbc.edu.  You can also find current information at
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~cikm/.


SUBMISSIONS

Papers, extended abstracts and position papers should be submitted in
electronic form -- HTML source is preferred; otherwise postscript or
ASCII.  If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy will be
accepted.  Email electronic submissions to: IIAW@CS.UMBC.EDU. FTP
electronic submissions to FTP.CS.UMBC.EDU in pub/iiaw/incoming. Mail
hardcopy to: CIKM95 IIA Workshop, CSEE Department, University of
Maryland Baltimore County, 5401 Wilkens Ave., Baltimore MD 21228-5398.

Please submit material so that it arrives on or before September 22,
1995.  Invitations to participate will be sent by October 20, and
final copies of workshop papers will be due on November 17.


CO-CHAIRS:

  Tim Finin (Maryland), finin@umbc.edu, 410-455-3522
  James Mayfield (Maryland), mayfield@umbc.edu, 410-455-3099

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

 Yigal Arens (USC/ISI)
 Edmund Durfee (Michigan)
 Benjamin Grosof (IBM)
 Michael Huhns (South Carolina) 
 Yannis Labrou (Maryland)
 Alon Levy (AT&T)
 Pattie Maes (MIT)
 Don McKay (Loral)
 Daniella Rus (Dartmouth)
 Ellen Voorhees (Siemens)  
 Michael Wooldridge (Manchester)