alex@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Alex Quilici) (04/27/91)
[NOTE: We have changed the due date from April 15th to May 13th because
of requests from a number of potential contributors, and because of
the lateness of the official IJCAI announcements.]
CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on
Agent Modeling For Intelligent Interaction
August 24-25, 1991 (during IJCAI-91)
Sydney, Australia
Any computer system capable of intelligent interaction requires a model
of any agent with which it communicates. An intelligent interface needs
a model of the user. An intelligent help system must have a model of
the advice-seeker. An intelligent tutoring system requires a model of
the student. And an intelligent Natural Language dialog participant
needs a model of the other participant in the discourse. The past few
years have seen a dramatic growth in research into automatically
acquiring and updating these models, representing the knowledge they
must contain, and making use of this knowledge to enhance communication.
This workshop, held in conjunction with IJCAI-91, seeks to bring
together this diverse community of researchers. Its purpose is to
explore and develop similarities and differences in their concerns,
approaches, and terminology. This workshop particularly emphasizes
research into the construction of computer programs capable both of
forming and using agent models. However, contributions from closely
related areas of research are welcome, including tools for constructing
these systems, techniques for evaluating their performance, and
cognitive models that aid in their design.
This workshop will be two days long. The first day will consist
primarily of a set of 20 minute presentations of specific systems and
research efforts. The second day will contain panel discussions that
address the most important concerns raised by the papers submitted to
the workshop, and will conclude with a general discussion of the
accomplishments of these efforts and directions for future research.
To facilitate in-depth discussion, we will limit the workshop to no
more than 40 participants. Participants will be chosen on the basis of
of an extended abstract (3-5 pages) describing their relevant research.
Since the goal of this workshop is to encourage communication between
the different agent-modeling communities, submissions should make clear
the ways in which the author can contribute to this goal.
Submissions should be sent to either of the workshop's co-chairs.
Electronic submissions are preferred and may be sent in Troff, Latex,
Postscript, or as a regular text file. Hardcopy submissions are also
acceptable and should include four (4) copies of the paper. Submissions
must be received by Monday, May 13th. Participants will be notified of
acceptance by Friday, June 7th. Final papers based on the submitted
abstracts must be received by Monday, July 1st. The collection of
accepted papers will be provided to all participants when they register
for the workshop. Full versions of accepted papers may be submitted to
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: An International Journal
after the workshop. Selected contributions may be collected into
special topic-specific issues of the journal.
Workshop Co-Chairs
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Judy Kay (judy@cs.su.oz.au)
Department of Computer Science F09
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia 2006
Phone: 61-2-692-3423
Alex Quilici (alex@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu)
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2540 Dole St, Holmes Hall 455
Honolulu, HI, 96822
Phone: 808-956-5310
Workshop Program Committee
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Guy Boy (Nasa Ames Research Center)
Sandra Carberry (University of Delaware)
David Chin (University of Hawaii)
Takashi Kato (University of Sydney)
Bob Kass (EDS)
Bradley Goodman (Mitre)
Alfred Kobsa (University of Saarbrucken)
Cecile Paris (USC/ISI)
Wolfgang Wahlster (German Research Center For AI)
Ingrid Zuckerman (Monash University)