+12th Int. Conference on Knowledge Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems

Zagreb, Croatia

Main Conference date: 3, 4 and 5 September 2008,

 

 

Invited Session on

Communicative Intelligence 2008


Call for Papers

 

 

 

1. Scope of the Session

 

The aim of this session is to explore the dimensions of intelligent media technologies and intelligent agent systems built on top of Artificial Intelligence, Web Intelligence, Perceptual Information Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, Ontologies, Web Semantics and other intelligent and cognitive technologies that will help people develop individual or collective intelligence by augmenting interaction among people in a significant and profound way.  The term "Communicative Intelligence" reflects our view that intelligence manifests and develops in communicative activities, data organization and autonomous software. The subject of this session is composed of two main tracks:

-          Intelligent Media Technology, and

-          Ontology and Agent Systems Design.

 

Intelligent media technologies attempt to capture and augment people's communicative activities either by embedding computers into the environment so that their interaction can be extended without being interfered by computer operations or by introducing embodied conversational agents that will mediate conversations among people in a social context.  We also emphasize that the intelligent support is critical for content production, distribution, and utilization, for the content is the most important in communication in most applications.  In addition to the fundamental issues such as communication models of conversations or evaluation methods, potential applications, such as e-learning or knowledge management, are deemed important as a powerful thrust of research in this field and hence are welcome.

 

Ontology and Agent Systems Design are related to software agents which have long been recognized as a promising technology for constructing complex systems as open and distributed communities of loosely-coupled modules. A key development in the field of multi-agent systems has been the specification of agent communication languages (ACLs), and formalization of ontologies. Agent communication languages are intended to provide standard declarative mechanisms for agents to communicate knowledge and make requests of each other, whereas ontologies are intended for conceptualization of the knowledge domain. In this paradigm cognitive agents of heterogeneous nature possess diverse conceptual views and ontologies the problem of semantic mismatch arises, and a special conflict resolution strategies based on computer-supported negotiation are necessary. The aim of this track is to discuss modern approaches and techniques for ontologies and multi-agent systems, particularly in design aspects and solving conflicts.

 

These two tracks are supplementary to each other in the sense that the Intelligent Media Technology track sheds light on the interactive aspects of Communicative Intelligence and the Ontology and Agent Systems Design track focuses on the data organization and networking aspects.

 

The session organizers cordially invite the potential authors to submit papers on all topics defined below.

 

 

2. Topics

 

According to the scope of this session, topics include, but are not limited to the following subjects:

 

For track Intelligent Media Technology:

 

a.      Perceptual technologies for capturing semantic information,

b.      Automated annotation of conversational data,

c.       Intelligent content production and management for communicating intellectual assets,

d.      Embodied conversational agents that create and mediate knowledge in a social context,

e.      Sociable agents that can cohabit with people in the real world,

f.        Smart environments that can support communicative activities,

g.      Measurement and evaluation of communicative intelligence, and

h.      Applications of communicative intelligence.

For track Ontology and Agent Systems Design:

 

a.     Ontologies: semantic mismatch, merging, translation techniques, etc,

b.     Ontology models, multimodal systems and interfaces,

c.     Inconsistency and uncertainty management in multi-agent systems,

d.     Distributed knowledge systems,

e.     Multi-agent system design,

f.      Negotiation strategies in multi-agent systems,

g.     Data and knowledge engineering/communication, and

h.     Network communication.

 

 

3. Instructions for Authors

 

Papers must correspond to the global conference format requirements detailed in the Instructions to Authors section, available on the Conference Web Site:

             http://kes2008.kesinternational.org/

All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors, who must register.

 

 

4. Publication

 

Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests on the session topics and related areas of application. All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period.

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by
Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Please refer to the Springer-Verlag web site for directions on the Paper Format which must be strictly followed. The limit for page number is 8.

Only electronic submissions in PDF or Postscript formats are acceptable for review purposes. All papers must be must be submitted in electronic form using the PROSE software review system.

Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (Inderscience Publishers) and in edited book for Springer Intelligent Agents in the Evolution of Web and Applications (Vol. 2, to be published in 2009).

 

 

5. Deadlines

 

-          Submission of full papers: February 27, 2008

-          Notification of acceptance: March 22, 2008

-          Camera-ready papers submission: April 19, 2008

 

 

6. Program Committee

 

              Leszek Borzemski, PL

              Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, PL

              Radoslaw Katarzyniak, PL

Yoji Kiyota, JP

Takanori Komatsu, JP

Hidekazu Kubota, JP

Yuichi Nakamura, JP

Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, PL

Toyoaki Nishida, JP

Naoko Nitta, JP

Agnieszka Pieczynska, PL

Janusz Sobecki, PL

Kleber Xavier Sampaio de Souza, Brasil

Rinichiro Taniguchi, JP

 

 

7. Session Organizers and Contact Details

 

Please direct all correspondences regarding the organized session, including full paper submissions (electronic) and inquiries, to the co-organizers and co-chairs:

Toyoaki Nishida
Department of Information and Communication Engineering
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
The University of Kyoto
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Kyoto 113-8656, Japan
Homepage: http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~nishida/
E-mail: nishida@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
Institute of Information Science and Engineering
Wroclaw University of Technology
Str.
Janiszewskiego 11/17, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
Homepage: http://www.iit.pwr.wroc.pl/~nguyen/

E-mail: thanh@pwr.wroc.pl