CfP WORKSHOP: COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HUMAN AND ARTIFICIAL AGE

The ability to communicate in a complex manner with others, to exchange ideas and thoughts, to convey factual information as well as wishes, goals, and plans, to issue commands, instructions and questions, and to express emotions and interact on a social level, is one of the most important and distinguishing aspects of humankind. If artificial agents want to progress to the next level, and truely and deeply interact with humans, they must possess expanded communicative abilities. 数据挖掘实验室

Agent communication languages, like ACL and KQML, have been a focus of attention in recent years. They have been shown to be effective for communication among agents in multi-agent systems, or for simple human-agent interaction, but they are far from reflecting the complexity of human communication. Architectures for agents and agent systems designed so far include representations of mental states, believes and intentions, sensory information, formal representations of actions and action ontologies, and the integration of context and situation information, which serve as a basis for implementing intelligent agent behavior and communication among agents, but they still lack an in-depth, elaborate connection to human communication skills, regarding form and content. Interdisciplinary research integrating methods and models from linguistics, psychology, philosophy, and other areas with computer science, has provided some basis for the extension of artificial agents and their "human" characteristics and abilities. 数据挖掘研究院

Building on the approaches developed so far, this workshop focuses on new methods and models to describe and implement communication between human and artificial agents, in all forms and on all levels. The ultimate goal of this endeavour is to bridge the gap between the richness, complexity and expressiveness of human communication, and the (in)ability of artificial agents to deal with it and to (inter)act adequately within cooperation with humans.

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• models of communicative behaviour, communication languages
• natural language processing, interpretation of verbal expressions by agents
• dialog structures
• action representation, action theory, action ontology
• knowledge representation, ontologies
• context, including physical, spatial, temporal and semantic context
• gestures and facial expressions
• multi-modal communication
• speech and speech characteristics in communication
• cooperative behaviour, negotiation, judgement
• social norms and roles, social behaviours, social interaction
• learning of interactive behaviours, learning in interactions, imitation learning
• distant communication, wireless communication
• others

Full papers can have up to 4 pages plus one page for an additional fee.
Papers should be formatted according to the guidelines for the main conference, see downloads.
Accepted papers will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

• July 30th, 2006: Due date for full paper submission
• September 11th, 2006: Notification of acceptance
• September 29th, 2006: Submission of camera-ready version of accepted papers
• December 18th, 2006: Workshop (half day)

Christel Kemke, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada
e-mail: ckemke@cs.umanitoba.ca

• Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany
• Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany
• Hans W. Guesgen, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Karin Harbusch, University of Koblenz, Germany
• Stephen Helmreich, CRL, USA
• Pourang Irani, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Steffen Knoop, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Stefan Kopp, University of Bielefeld, Germany
• Geert-Jan Kruijff, DFKI, Germany
• Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, and University of Windsor, Canada
• Xin Lu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Lilia Moshkina, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Kevin Russell, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Lorenz Sichelschmidt, University of Bielefeld, Germany
• Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA
• Andre Trudel, Acadia University, Canada
• Robert Trypuz, Institute for Applied Ontology, Italy
• Sven Wachsmuth, University of Bielefeld, Germany
• Christine Wu, University of Manitoba, Canada