MEETING SCHEDULE

February 3 - Intelligent Information Agents meeting

9:00 - 9:15 SIG Activity Report & News , MATTHIAS KLUSCH, DFKI, Germany

9:15 - 10:45 Agent-Based Information Systems working group, SONIA BERGAMASCHI, DII U. Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Agent-Based Information System: activity report. SONIA BERGAMASCHI, DII U. Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
• MIKS: an agent framework supporting information access and integration. SONIA BERGAMASCHI, DII U. Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
• MIA: An Information System for Mobile Users, BERND THOMAS, U. Koblenz, Germany
• Density-based distributed clustering, STEFANO LODI, DEIS U. Bologna, Italy
• MAFRA-An approach in mapping ontologies, NUNO SILVA, Intituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Agents & Law working group, SONIA BERGAMASCHI and GIOVANNI SARTOR

• The intellectual property protection of electronic agents -- an issue of legal policy?, JON BING, U. Oslo, Norway
• Normative-epistemic positions for information agents - elements of a formal theory of 'the right to know'. ANDREW JONES, King's College, London, UK
• Contracts and intentions. GIOVANNI SARTOR, CIRSFID, Bologna, UK
• Law and agents: The legal status of agents and the technological implications. ANJA OSKAMP and FRANCES BRAZIER, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands

14:00 - 16:00 C3 working group, PAOLO PETTA

• Coordination in Open Agent Societies: the ALFEBIITE Perspective. JEREMY PITT, Imperial College, UK
• Agent-based Decision Support: Coordination and ACLs. SASCHA OSSOWSKI, URJC, Spain
• Tailored vs. Conventional Communication in Open Agent Societies. SASCHA OSSOWSKI URJC, Spain and JEREMY PITT Imperial College, UK
• Framing Coordination. ANDREA OMICINI and ALESSANDRO RICCI, DEIS, U. Bologna, Italy

16:00 16:15 Coffee Break 15

16:15 - 17:00 Discussion

February 4 - ALAD SIG and Agentcities, AgentLink and Ontoweb Liaison Meetings

9:15 - 9:30 Brief introduction, DANIEL KUDENKO (U. York, UK) & MATTHIAS KLUSCH (DFKI, Germany)

9:30 - 10:00 Adaptive Information Agents: an Industrial View, PAUL MARROW (BT, UK)

10:00 - 10:30 Resource-Bounded Adaptive Information and Service Brokers, LUIS BOTELHO (ADETTI, Portugal)

Discussion on presentations

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30 Coordination as Process Algebras. RUNE GUSTAVSSON (Blekinge TH, Ronneby, Sweden)

11.30 - 12:00 Multi-Agent System for Knowledge Management based on the Implicit Culture Framework, ENRICO BLANZIERI (IRST, Italy)

12:00 - 12:30 Discussion on presentations, collaboration opportunities, and other business