CIKM'95 Intelligent Information Agents Workshop

Omni Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore MD -- December 1-2, 1995

Organizers' Welcome and Overview

We are happy to welcome you to the second CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents. The workshop is intended to bring together a group of researchers and developers who are exploring the use of agent-oriented paradigms in information systems. Approximately 50 papers, position paper and extended abstracts were submitted to the program committee for review. Of these, fourteen were selected for presentation and discussion. These papers plus an additional 25 papers are assembled into an on-line proceedings which is available at <http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~cikm/iia/1995/>.

We would like to thank the many people who helped plan and organize the workshop. We could not have done this with out their help.

• The program committee consisted of Yigal Arens, Edmund Durfee, Benjamin Grosof, Michael Huhns, Alon Levy, Pattie Maes, Yannis Labrou, Don McKay, Daniella Rus, Ellen Voorhees, and Michael Wooldridge. All we very helpful in the initial planning for the workshop and in reviewing submitted papers.
• Dr. Charles Nicholas, the general chair of CIKM'95 was very supportive and helped solve many of the logistical problems that arose.
• Dr. Carolyn Harriger and her group at the UMBC Office of Continuing Education have done a wonderful job of supporting the entire CIKM conference including this workshop.
• A number of UMBC graduate students helped with organization, reviewing, proceedings and web pages and many other tasks. We would like to especially think Yannis Labrou, R. Scott Cost and Anupama Potluri.
• The workshop, as part of CIKM'95, is sponsored by ACM special interest groups SIGART and SIGIR and is held in cooperation with NASA, Bellcore, NSF, AAAI, IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGLINK, CACS/USL, and UMBC.

James Mayfield, (mayfield@umbc.edu)
Tim Finin, (finin@umbc.edu)

November 30, 1995