CIA 2007 Call for Participation

[Matthias Klusch]

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            CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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       Eleventh International Workshop on

  Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2007)

          September 19 - 21, 2007
      Delft University of Technology,
           Delft, The Netherlands

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     http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2007

Co-sponsored by

- TU Delft ICT Research
- Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland
- IEEE FIPA
- Belgium-Netherlands Association for AI
- SIKS Dutch Research School
   for Information and Knowledge Systems

In cooperation with

   ACM SIGART, ACM SIGWeb, ACM SIGKDD, ACM SIGCHI

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
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The scientific program is available at
http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2007/html/program.html

AWARDS
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CIA 2007 issues a CIA 2007 Best Paper Award
This award is sponsored by the series.
The winning prize is 300 euros.

CIA 2007 issues a "CIA 2007 System Innovation Award".
This award is sponsored by Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland.
The winning prize is 500 euros.

INVITED SPEAKERS
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* Alun Preece (U Aberdeen, UK)
* Jaap van den Herik (U Maastricht, The Netherlands)
* John-Jules Meyer (U Utrecht, The Netherlands)
* Catholijn Jonker (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

REGISTRATION
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The registration fee (310e) covers

     * Scientific program

     * One copy of the proceedings (LNAI vol 4676)

     * Lunch servings on each day

     * Coffee breaks, of course, on each day

     * Welcome reception (on Sept 19)

     * Social program (on Sept 20):

         Visit to the Vermeer Center
         Visit to the Royal Delft Factory
         Dinner at De Prinsenkelder

Registration for CIA 2007 is handled by the local host at:
http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2007/html/registration.html

ORGANISATION
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Co-Chairs

       Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
       Leon Sterling (U Melbourne, Australia)
       Mike P. Papazoglou (U Tilburg, The Netherlands)
       Koen Hindriks (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

Program Committee

       Wolfgang Benn (TU Chemnitz, Germany)
       Sonia Bergamaschi (U Modena, Italy)
       Abraham Bernstein (U Zurich, Switzerland)
       Monique Calisti (Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland)
       Boi Faltings (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland)
       Rune Gustavsson (TH Blekinge, Sweden)
       Heikki Helin (TeliaSonera, Finland/Sweden)
       Michael Huhns (U South Carolina, USA)
       Catholijn Jonker (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
       Hillol Kargupta (UMBC, USA)
       Uwe Keller (DERI Innsbruck, Austria)
       Ryszard Kowalczyk (Swinburne U, Australia)
       Manolis Koubarakis (TU Crete, Greece)
       Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan U, Israel)
       Daniel Kudenko (U York, UK)
       Alain Leger (France Telecom, France)
       Victor Lesser (U Massachusetts, USA)
       Jiming Liu (Hongkong Baptist U, China)
       Stefano Lodi (U Bologna, Italy)
       Werner Nutt (FU Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
       Sascha Ossowski (U Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
       Terry Payne (U Southampton, UK)
       Adrian Pearce (U Melbourne, Australia)
       Alun Preece (U Aberdeen, UK)
       Cartic Ramakrishnan (Wright State U, USA)
       Jeffrey Rosenschein (Hebrew U, Israel)
       Amit Sheth (Wright State U, USA)
       Steffen Staab (U Koblenz, Germany)
       Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon U, USA)
       Valentina Tamma (U Liverpool, UK)
       Jan Treur (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
       Rainer Unland (U Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
       Gottfried Vossen (U Muenster, Germany)
       Gerhard Weiss (SCCH, Austria)
       Steve Willmott (UPC Barcelona, Spain)