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Welcome to the Ontologies in Agent Systems Workshop pages.
The workshop is the third in a series of workshops on Ontologies and
Agent Systems (the previous workshops were held at the International
Conference on Autonomous Agents 2001 in Montreal, Canada and the
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
2002 in Bologna, Italy). It aims to provide a forum to foster
discussion on the issues involved in using ontologies to support
interactions between software agents. Particular areas of interest
are:
- Practical experience and considerations in designing applications
where interactions are based on ontologies, and the
infrastructural support required for their effective use.
- Discussion of the dependencies between ontologies, their
supporting technologies and other aspects of agent systems such
as agent architectures, and interaction mechanisms (coordination,
communication, etc.).
- Comparison of different ontology representation approaches for
use in agent systems.
Emphasis will be on the discussion of ontologies with respect to
the practical impact they have on agent architecture and application
design.
| Abstract submissions due: | April 10, 2003 (extended deadline) |
| Submissions due: | April 13, 2003 (extended deadline) |
| Author notification due: | May 5, 2003 (changed date) |
| Camera-ready papers due: | May 21, 2003 (extended deadline) |
| Date of workshop: | July 15, 2003 |
The call for papers can be found on line here:
There is a growing interest in the use of ontologies in agent systems
as a means to facilitate interoperability among diverse software
components, in particular, where interoperability is achieved through
the explicit modelling of the intended meaning of the concepts used in
the interaction between diverse information sources, software
components and/or service-providing software. The problems arising
from the creation, maintenance, use and sharing of such semantic
descriptions are perceived as critical to future commercial and
non-commercial information networks, and are being highlighted by a
number of recent large-scale initiatives to create open environments
that support the interaction of many diverse systems (e.g. Agentcities,
Grid computing, the Semantic Web and Web Services). A common thread
across these initiatives is the need to support the synergy between
ontology and agent technology, and increasingly, the multi-agent
systems and ontology research communities are seeking to work together
to solve common problems.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers from a number of
different communities including (but not limited to):
- Researchers working on ontology representation languages and
modelling techniques including (but not limited to):
- Ontology engineering approaches providing methodologies to build
correct and reusable ontologies such as: Tove, Methontology and
the Knowledge Meta-Process
- AI knowledge representation approaches such as conceptual graphs,
description logics and frame-based languages
- Object-oriented and other software engineering modelling
formalisms derived from (for example) UML, ODL, IDL
- Semantic Web ontology-description languages derived from XML, RDF
and RDFS such as OIL and DAML, or OWL.
- Agent communication researchers investigating the links between
various aspects of agent communication and/or those working on the
integration of ontology tools with agent development and software
design systems.
- Researchers and developers actively applying ontology tools and
resources for applications development or in particular research
fields.
Since the objective of the workshop is to enable lively discussion, we
encourage all participants to submit a paper (workshop space may be
limited, so paper authors will receive priority in workshop
registration). Papers may be one of three types:
- Short papers: These may be from two to four pages and should
describe a problem or research issue that you consider to be
important and/or on which you are working.
- Regular papers: These may be up to eight pages in length and should
describe original research work.
- Challenge papers: A workshop challenge
problem has been set based on the ontology tool assessment
exercise organised by the EU OntoWeb project (SIG on
Enterprise-Standard ontology environments), the first results of
which were presented in the EKAW'02 workshop on evaluation of
ontology-based tools (EON'02). Whereas the OntoWeb challenge
focused on the ontology modelling process for a given domain, our
challenge requires tackling agent interaction and coordination
issues using messages with content expressed in terms of the domain
ontology. Papers responding to the workshop challenge must have no
more than eight pages of text, but additional pages of diagrams are
permitted.
Papers should be submitted online via the Confman system. Papers
should be in PostScript or PDF format. Please ensure that all
non-standard fonts are embedded in the file. Note to Microsoft Word
users: before converting your paper to PostScript or PDF, please check
that under Compatibility Options you do not have the
option "Use printer font metrics to lay out document" selected.
All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, but
some regular or challenge papers may be accepted as short papers, in
which case a revised version of no more than four pages must be
submitted for inclusion in the proceedings. Time may not be available
at the workshop for the presentation of short papers, but the authors
will be invited to take part in a panel discussion at the end of the
relevant session of the workshop.
All papers should be formatted following the style of ACM conference
proceedings (but the copyright box and ACM index terms are not
required). Templates for Word, WordPerfect and LaTeX are available
at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
All accepted papers will be available on the day of the workshop in a
set of working notes.
A more formal publication will be considered.
This workshop is being held in cooperation with the IJCAI 2003 Workshop on Ontologies and
Distributed Systems and the AAMAS
Agentcities: Challenges in Open Agent Systems Workshop.
Workshop participants must register for both the AAMAS
2003 conference and this workshop by following the
instructions at:
Stephen Cranefield,
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Steve Willmott,
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- Richard Benjamins, iSOCO (Spain)
- Federico Bergenti, University of Parma (Italy)
- Luis Botelho, ADETTI (Portugal)
- Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies (Switzerland)
- Ulises Cortes, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain)
- Ian Dickinson, HP Laboratories (UK)
- Noriaki Izumi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology (Japan)
- Yannis Labrou, Fujitsu Laboratories of America (USA)
- Frank McCabe, Fujitsu Laboratories of America (USA)
- Marian Nodine, Telcordia Austin Research Center (USA)
- Natalya Noy, Stanford University (USA)
- James Odell, James Odell Associates (USA)
- Martin Purvis, University of Otago (New Zealand)
- Leon Sterling, University of Melbourne (Australia)
- Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- Mike Uschold, Boeing (USA)
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