Second International Conference on
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS (Agents '98)
Minneapolis/St. Paul, May 9-13, 1998
Autonomous agents are computer systems that are capable of independent
action in dynamic, unpredictable environments. Agents are also one of the
most important and exciting areas of research and development in computer
science today. Agents are currently being applied in domains as diverse
as computer games and interactive cinema, information retrieval and filtering,
user interface design, and industrial process control. The aim of the Agents
'98 conference was to bring together researchers and developers from industry
and academia in order to report on the latest scientific and technical
advances, discuss and debate the major issues, and showcase the latest
systems.
The invited speakers for Agents '98 were Les Gasser, Bernardo
Huberman, Lucy Suchman, and Oren Etzioni. [Speaker
Abstracts]
Agents '98 built on the enormous success of the First International
Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents
'97), held in Marina del Rey in February 1997, which was attended by
some 500 people.
Agents '98 is sponsored by ACM/SIGART and co-sponsored by ACM/SIGGRAPH
and ACM/SIGCHI, is being held in cooperation with AAAI, and with support
from Microsoft, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, British Telecom, Mitsubishi Electric
ITA (MERL and Horizon Systems Laboratory), SONY, AT&T, and the University
of Minnesota.
