CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents

Timothy Finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
From: Timothy Finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 19:36:51 -0500
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The second CIKM workshop on Intelligent Information Agents was held
last week in Baltimore as part of the Fourth ACM Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management.  Approximately 75 people
attended the workshop, listened to presentations and discussed the
theory and practice of intelligent information agents.  A complete
record of the workshop, including papers, some presentations, and
images can be found at <http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~cikm/iia/>. 

The workshop included a number of papers which talked about Knowledge
Sharing technology and its applications, including these, all of which
are available on the web:
  
  "Infomaster: A Virtual Information System".  Donald F. Geddis, Michael
  R. Genesereth, Arthur M. Keller & Narinder P. Singh, Computer Science
  Department, Stanford University. CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent
  Information Agents, Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995
  
  "On Agent Domains, Agent Names and Proxy Agents".  Tim Finin, Chelliah
  Thirunavukkarasu & Anupama Potluri , Department of Computer Science
  and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County ;
  Don McKay & Robin McEntire , Loral.  CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent
  Information Agents, Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995
  
  "Secret Agents -- a Security Architecture for KQML".  Chelliah
  Thirunavukkarasu, Tim Finin & James Mayfield , Department of Computer
  Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore
  County.  CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents,
  Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995
  
  "The Cycic Friends Network: Getting Cyc agents to reason together".
  James Mayfield, Tim Finin, Rajkumar Narayanaswamy & Chetan Shah,
  Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University
  of Maryland Baltimore County, William MacCartney & Keith Goolsbey,
  Cycorp., Austin, TX.  CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information
  Agents, Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995
  
  "GIA: An Agent-Based Architecture for Intelligent Tutoring Systems".
  Brant Cheikes, MITRE.  CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information
  Agents, Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995
  
  "An Approach to Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Using
  Statistical Properties of Text to Guide Agent Search".  Grace Crowder
  & Charles Nicholas, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
  Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
  21228-5398.  CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents,
  Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995
  
  "Task Planning Agents in the UMDL", Jose M. Vidal & Edmund H. Durfee,
  Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Michigan, 1101 Beal
  Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2110.  CIKM'95 Workshop on Intelligent
  Information Agents, Baltimore, MD, Decenber 1-2, 1995.