alex@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Alex Quilici) (03/15/91)
CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Agent Modelling 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, April 15th. Participants will be notified of acceptance by Friday, May 31st. 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 ------------------ 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 -------------------------- 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)