Call for Papers
The First International Workshop on
Databases and Multi-Agent Systems
University of Florence, Florence, Italy
September 3rd 1999
In conjunction with DEXA'99
The 10th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Introduction
With the increasing use of complex and large-scale information systems based upon, for example, distributed databases,
federated databases, heterogeneous databases and semi-structured and unstructured multi-databases, new approaches
to the design and implementation of these systems merit significant investigation and analysis. Multi-agent systems
have been mooted as an important means with which to address the development of large and complex information systems,
and provide one such approach to the problem above. Agent technology and multi-agent systems have arisen in an
exciting and rapidly changing field during the last ten years, emerging from distributed artificial intelligence.
In particular, the exponential growth of the internet as an enabling technology for distributed systems has provided an increasingly urgent need for research into issues surrounding the intersection between the two research paradigms considered in this workshop. Indeed, at this exciting interface between these two fields of research, there are many open questions to be answered, and many problems to be solved.
The design of systems involving databases based around multiple interacting agents requires expertise from a number of different research areas. A key aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring together active researchers from the different fields to exchange ideas discuss the many open issues that arise in the design, development and implementation of systems at the interface of multi-agent systems and database sytems.
Topics of Interest
The workshop will be concerned with a broad range of issues relating to the interface and integration of agent-based
systems and database systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
| agent architectures for database systems | communication languages |
| agent theories for application to databases | agent-oriented modelling |
| engineering agent-oriented database systems | ontologies |
| languages for agent-oriented databases | security and privacy |
| agent-oriented data mining | intruder detection |
| agent-oriented digital libraries | information retrieval |
| applications of agent-oriented databases | internet agent applications |
Submission
Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. Papers should be
double-spaced and no longer than 5,000 words. A separate cover sheet must be included which provides the following
information: title, name of author(s), full postal and electronic mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers. Papers
will be reviewed by programme committee members for their technical merit, originality, significance, and relevance
to the workshop. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society.
Abstract Submission
Please send an abstract (of no more than 250 words in ASCII text) of the paper via email including title of the
paper, authors(s) names and 3-4 relevant keywords. Your abstract be sent to g.staniford@livjm.ac.uk and
should reach us no later than 12th March, 1999.
Paper Submission
We strongly encourage email submissions of the full paper in either gzipped or plain PostScript, or pdf format.
The title page must include the name and email address of the contact author. Email submissions should be sent
to g.staniford@livjm.ac.uk
Alternatively, send 4 hard-copies of your paper to the Workshop Chair at the address opposite. Extended Deadline Your paper should reach us no later than 9th April, 1999.
Organisation
Workshop Chair:
Geof Staniford
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
James Parsons Building
Byrom Street
Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool L3 3AF
United Kingdom.
g.staniford@livjm.ac.uk
Programme Chair:
Michael Luck
University of Warwick
Programme Committee: (provisional)
Carl Bamford, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena, Italy
Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University, Berlin
Keith Clark, Imperial College, UK
Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mark d'Inverno, University of Westminster, UK
Zakaria Maamar, Defence Research Establishment Valcartier, Canada
Hyacinth Nwana, British Telecom, UK
Matthias Klusch, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
Stuart Staniford-Chen, Silicon Defense Inc and University of California at Davis, USA
Chengqi Zhang, University of New England, Australia
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline:
Paper Submission Deadline: Extended Deadline 9th April, 1999
Notification: 1st May, 1999
Camera-Ready Copy Due: 26th May, 1999
Workshop Date: 3rd September, 1999