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Christopher G. Atkeson (cga@cc.gatech.edu)
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> Subject: [ICMAS96-PC: 38] Invitation to ICMAS96 Mobile Assistant Project
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> *******************************************************************
> Invitation to ICMAS96 Mobile Assistant Project
> *******************************************************************
>
> At ICMAS96 (The Second International Conference on Multiagent
> Systems in December 10th to 13th at Keihanna-Plaza, Kyoto, Japan),
> Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Kyoto University,
> Nara Institute of Science and Technology, and Kobe University will
> jointly exhibit a mobile computing system that provides (1) E-mail,
> E-forum and Internet access services, (2) conference and tourist
> information for local sites, and (3) social match making based on
> participants' profiles and schedules to arrange meetings, teas,
> dinners and so on.
>
> In this exhibition, around 100 personal intelligent communicators (Sony
> MagicLink) with handy phones will be loaned to conference participants
> without any charge to actually try out the system. During the
> conference, the participants can use the terminal at the conference
> site, hotels, parks, and so on.
>
> This is the world's first experiment in applying mobile computing systems
> to community support. People can access various information about the
> conference and attendees using their personal communicators. We are
> using Magic Cap on the terminals and Telescript on servers.
>
> Join us and enjoy ICMAS96 with our mobile assistants! For more
> information, please send your message to the following address.
> icmas96mobile@lab7.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp
>
> (See also http://www.keihanna-plaza.co.jp/ICMAS96/index.html for
> ICMAS96, and http://www.lab7.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icmas96mobile/ for this
> project.)
>
> Project Co-Organizers (alphabetical order):
> Toru Ishida (Kyoto University)
> Ichiro Morihara (NTT)
> Toyoaki Nishida (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
> Katsumi Tanaka (Kobe University)
>
> ---- cut here ------------------------------------------------------
>
> How to Join
>
> To join the ICMAS96 mobile assistant project, please fill the
> following form and send it to icmas96mobile@lab7.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp
> by November 8th. Later applications may not be accepted due to the
> limited number of terminals. Notification of acceptance and
> further information will be provided by the end of November.
>
> You can also use http://www.keihanna-plaza.co.jp/ICMAS96/index.html
> to enter your profile. Please also note that your registration to
> ICMAS96 is necessary to join this project.
>
> Name ________________
> Affiliation ___________________________
> Address ___________________________
> E-mail ___________________
> Telephone voice __________, fax ______________
> You can share a terminal YES (with whom?)____________ / NO
>
> Please provide us your profile. This information will be open to
> the participants of the conference.
>
> Message to Other Participants (100 to 200 words)
> _____________________________________________________________
> _____________________________________________________________
> _____________________________________________________________
> _____________________________________________________________
> _____________________________________________________________
> _____________________________________________________________
> _____________________________________________________________
> _____________________________________________________________
>
> Please also answer the following questions.
>
> 1. What is your position in this conference?
> [Committee, Student, Others] ____________
> [Presenter, Others] ___________
>
> 2. Do you use your computer everyday? __________
> [Yes, Almost, No]
>
> 3. Do you have any type of portable computer? __________
> [Notebook computer, PDA, Others, No]
>
> 4. How often do you carry your portable computer? __________
> [Always, Sometimes, Never]
>
> 5. What is your portable computer for? __________
> a. Wired communication
> b. Radio communication
> c. Memorandum
> d. Schedule
> e. Information service
> f. Others ____________________________________
>
> 6. How often do you check your email? ____________
> [Always, Every hour, Every day, Every week, Never]
>
> 7. Why do you want to join this mobile assistant project? ____, _____
> a. To get the latest information about ICMAS96
> b. To get sight seeing information
> c. To use Internet email
> d. To use MagicCap terminal
> e. To join an interesting new trial
> f. Others ____________________________________
>
> 8. Which service do you plan to use mainly? _________________
> [E-mail, Net News, Information Retrieval,
> InfoCommon (context-based forum), Social Matchmaker (visual who's who)]
>
> 9. Which mailing list do you want to use during the conference? __________
> [Research, Hobby, Others, None]
>
> 10. What information do you want to get from your terminal? ________, ________
> a. Conference Schedule
> b. Abstracts of Papers
> c. Transportation
> d. Food/Restaurant
> e. Shopping
> f. Historical Point/Scenic Point
> g. Japanese Culture,
> h. Others _____________
>
> 11. Which city information do you want to get? _____, ______
> [Nara, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Others]
>
> 12. When you are in your home country or overseas, how do you find places
> to eat or see? _______, _______, _______, ....
> a. By looking up guide books
> b. By asking at information service office
> c. By looking up on-line information
> d. By asking friends
> e. By accompanying local people
> f. By walking around
> g. Others ________________________
>
> 13. What type of people do you talk to at international conferences? ________
> [Famous People, Presenter, Person with Same Hobby, Others, Never]
>
> 14. What difficulties do you encounter when you are at international
> conferences? ______
> a. To find the way to the place for meeting, dining, ...
> b. To find the person to communicate with
> c. To find the place to eat or see
> d. To get the conference information of the day
> e. Others __________
>
> 15. What is your research interest? ________________________________________
> Please also choose keyword IDs you are interested in from the list
> added below.
> ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, .....
>
> A. Information Science in General:
> Aa. General
> Ab. Society
> Ac. Education
>
> B. Fundamental Theory and Technology:
> Ba. Information Mathematics and Information Theory
> Bb. Nonlinear Mechanics
> Bc. Algorithm Theory
> Bd. Operations Research
> Be. Probability and Statistics
> Bf. Numerical Analysis
> Bg. Numerical Simulation
> Bh. High-Performance Computing
>
> C. Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science:
> Ca. Knowledge Representation:
> Ca1. Description Logic
> Ca2. Explanation
> Ca3. Knowledge Compilation
> Ca4. Commonsense Knowledge
> Ca5. Complexity
> Ca6. Diagrams
> Ca7. Spatial Reasoning
> Ca8. Shape and Space
>
> Cb. Knowledge Base Technology:
> Cb1. Planning, Monitoring and Control
>
> Cc. Temporal Reasoning
>
> Cd. Vision:
> Cd1. Early Vision
> Cd2. Active Vision
> Cd3. Qualitative Methods
> Cd4. Systems and Architectures
> Cd5. Vision and Other Perception
>
> Ce. Non-Monotonic Reasoning
>
> Cf. Qualitative Reasoning:
> Cf1. Modelling
> Cf2. Simulation
> Cf3. Monitoring
> Cf4. Reasoning about Function
>
> Cg. Learning:
> Cg1. Reinforcement and Markov Models
> Cg2. Instance-Based
> Cg3. Statistical Learning
> Cg4. PAC Learning
> Cg5. Inductive Logic Programming
>
> Ch. Diagnosis
>
> Ci. Constraint Satisfaction
>
> Cj. Genetic Algorithms
>
> Ck. Automated Reasoning:
> Ck1. Reasoning about Programs
> Ck2. Proof Planning
> Ck3. Analogy and Abstraction
> Ck4. Abduction
> Ck5. Search
> Ck6. Satisfiability
> Ck7. Defaults
> Ck8. Theorem Proving
>
> Cl. Uncertainty:
> Cl1. Probability and Entropy
> Cl2. Imprecise Probabilities
> Cl3. Bayes Nets
> Cl4. Belief Functions
> Cl5. Multiple-Valued Logic
>
> Cm. Natural Language:
> Cm1. Discourse
> Cm2. Presentation Generation
> Cm3. Tense and Aspect
> Cm4. Dictionary Construction
> Cm5. Statistical Approaches
> Cm6. Understanding
> Cm7. Machine Translation
> Cm8. Applications
> Cm9. Parsing and Generation
> Cm10. Formal Methods
>
> Cn. Planning:
> Cn1. Solution Quality
> Cn2. Algorithms
> Cn3. Search
> Cn4. Planning Graph Analysis
> Cn5. Real Time Search
> Cn6. Applications and Evaluation
> Cn7. Plan Recognition
>
> Co. Case Based Reasoning
>
> Cp. Distributed AI:
> Cp1. Coalitions
> Cp2. Multiple Agents
> Cp3. Distributed Planning
>
> Cq. Belief Revision
>
> Cr. Connectionist Models
>
> Cs. Auditory Scene Analysis
>
> Ct. Robotics:
> Ct1. Multi-Agent Systems
> Ct2. Navigation
> Ct3. Learning
> Ct4. Formal Methods
>
> Cu. Cognitive Modelling
>
> D. Data Processing
> Da. Speech Processing
> Db. Image Synthesis/Processing
> Dc. Text Processing
> Dd. Multimedia Processing
>
> E. Software
> Ea. Fundamental Theory
> Eb. Programming Languages and Specification Languages
> Ec. Tool
> Ed. Window System
> Ee. Operating System
> Ef. Database/Information Retrieval
> Eg. Programming Technique
> Eh. Human Interface
>
> F. Software Engineering
> Fa. Development Technique
> Fb. Test and Maintenance
> Fc. Software Process
> Fd. Development Environment
> Fe. Human Factors
> Ff. Software Quality
>
> G. Hardware
> Ga. Fundamental Theory
> Gb. Logic Circuit
> Gc. Device
> Gd. Architecture
> Ge. Peripheral and Terminal
> Gf. Design Technology and Design Automation
> Gg. Development Environment
> Gh. Test/Verification
>
> H. Network
> Ha. Communication Technology
> Hb. Network Management
> Hc. Computer Network
>
> I. System
> Ia. Interactive System
> Ib. Groupware
> Ic. Online System
> Id. Control System
> Ie. System Performance
> If. Application in Industry
>
> J. Others ______________________
>
> 16. What is your hobby? ________________________________________
> Please choose keyword IDs you are interested in from the list added below.
> ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, .....
>
> A. Arts
> A1. photography
> A2. painting
> A3. plays
> A4. ceramic art
> A5. handicraft
>
> B. Vehicles
> B1. car
> B2. motorcycle
> B3. bicycle
> B4. train
> B5. airplane
>
> C. Outdoors
> C1. camping
> C2. climbing
> C3. fishing
> C4. boating
> C5. hiking
> C6. hunting
> C7. mountain biking
> C8. star watching
> C9. running
> C10. walking
> C11. canoe
> C12. yacht
> C13. surfing
> C14. scuba diving
> C15. sky diving
>
> D. Sports
> D1. baseball
> D2. volleyball
> D3. basketball
> D4. tennis
> D5. badminton
> D6. table tennis
> D7. soccer
> D8. rugby
> D9. American football
> D10. hockey
> D11. skiing
> D12. skating
> D13. swimming
> D14. golf
> D15. bowling
> D16. billiards
> D17. martial arts
>
> E. Recreations
> E1. TV
> E2. movie
> E3. music
> E4. reading
> E5. video games
> E6. board games
> E7. travel
> E8. gambling
>
> F. Others
> F1. animation
> F2. computer
> F3. audio&visual
> F4. radio ham
> F5. cooking
> F6. shopping
>
> ---- cut here ------------------------------------------------------
>
> What are Planned
>
> The following various functions are planned in the mobile assistant
> project in general. Please note that some functions will not be provided
> at ICMAS96.
>
> 1. The Community Organizer Project
>
> Director: Ichiro Morihara
> Sub-Director: Miharu Tobe
> Project Managers: Yoshiyasu Nishibe
> Acting Members: Hideki Kawabe, Eiji Takeishi, Keiko Nakata, Hiroaki Waki,
> Akio Shinohara, Rie Ohtsubo, Katsumi Takahashi
> {morihara, nishibe, takeishi, nakata, waki, akio, rie}@isl.ntt.co.jp
> {tobe, kawabe}@nttcom.min.ntt.co.jp, takahasi@avg.slab.ntt.jp
> NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratories
>
> Now, we are developing two basic service systems ; E-mail and
> Net-News systems, and an information providing service system called
> Action Navigator for supporting the community communication on
> ICMAS'96. Attendance will have the assistance of the conference using
> the personal communicators (Sony MagicLink) lent free of charge. And
> these communicators is able to connect the server system with wired /
> wireless telecommunication line. Through the GUI designed for this
> conference on the communicator, the communication between
> attendances. Participants can communicate each other, find other
> participants of same interest, attended session or friends found at
> the conference.
>
> A. E-mail System
> This system will support followings.
> i) The communication between attendances using multi-media objects
> (ascii-text, voice, magic cap object, etc.,)
> ii) The customizing the rule of the forwarding and deleting a received
> E-mail by attendances
>
> B. Net-News System
> We provide ICAMS'96 Net-News system for supporting the
> communication between conference committee and attendances.
> This system will support followings.
> i) The communication among attendances using local Net-News.
> Attendance can post and/or follow net news article.
> ii) Prepared news groups: from committee, conference information,
> local information, and so on$B!%(B
>
> C. Action Navigate System
> The purpose of this system is to support decision making of
> activities in community, based on information services.
>
> We always make decision such as "selecting shops", even when we eat
> out. In the process of personal or family decision making, we first
> (1) collect information, then we (2) check the availability of the
> information and (3) make decision. In the community, we also need
> (4) an announcement of the plan, (5) collecting feedback and (6) a
> final decision. These "primary processes (1-3)" are believed
> personal task and many information systems are able to help these
> processes. The "community processes (4-6)" are left to the manager of
> the event and the supporting these processes is an open problem.
>
> So, Action Navigate System provides the following two facilities.
> i) This system provides shops and siteseeing information such as
> information and maps, etc., around Nara and Kyoto. This helps
> users "primary process".
>
> ii) Users also can discuss or announce upon the shops using the
> News-groups and share the others interests of the shops using
> the "map of hot shops" of Nara and Kyoto. This is designed for
> sharing "community processes" within the users.
>
> We all hope this system helps your days in ICMAS'96 and support
> after-5 life in Nara and/or Kyoto.
>
> 2. The Social Matchmaker Project
>
> Director: Toru Ishida
> Project Managers: Toshikazu Nishimura
> Acting Members: Tadahiro Gotoh, Hirofumi Yamaki, Nobuyasu Itoh,
> Takaaki Komura
> {ishida, nisimura, tara, yamaki, nobuyasu, emon}@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp
> Kyoto University
>
> We are currently implementing challenging functions for community support:
> a social match maker and a community viewer. The former is to bridge humans
> via a network. The latter is to visualize the current status of the
> community.
>
> The purpose of this project is to support the formation of a community
> among conference participants. In a conference such as ICMAS96, the
> participants have similar research domains and interests. This project aims
> at community support through the actualization of the shared contexts, by
> providing the participants with a way to find other people that have
> similar interests and visualizing the relationship among them.
>
> This system provides the following two functions: (a)visualization of the
> on-going formation of a community based on the profile data of the
> participants, and (b)support of meeting arrangement. Each participant is
> represented as an icon wandering around the display of the mobile terminal,
> and the user can browse the relationship among the participants through the
> actions of the icons. By specifying a group of users in that display, s/he
> can submit an announcement about a meeting. The system combines replies on
> the server machine to assist users in meeting each other.
>
> 3. The InfoCommon Project
>
> Director: Toyoaki Nishida
> Project Managers: Hideaki Takeda, Atsushi Sawada
> Acting Members: Harumi Maeda, Hidekazu Adachi, Masao Kajihara
> {nishida,takeda,sawada,harumi-m,hideka-a,masao-k}@is.aist-nara.ac.jp
> Nara Institute of Science and Technology
>
> The purpose of the InfoCommon project is to provide people with intelligent
> assistance for exchanging and sharing knowledge and ideas and thereby
> formulating and fostering groups and circles. Basically, the InfoCommon
> system is a shared information card system which allows for, among others,
> keyword-based associative retrieval. It serves both as an information
> system and as a forum management system. In the former, information
> is rather static and only retrieved by the users, while, in the
> latter, information flow is bi-directional and the common shared
> knowledge might be dynamically formed.
>
> The InfoCommon system is built upon a conventional news group service, with
> additional facilities of (a) a visual interface for browsing and submitting
> messages, and (b) dynamic clustering of the message archive from the
> perspective of user's personal conceptualization. The user
> can access the InfoCommon via the mobile terminal. S/he can browse her/his
> own message space by giving one or more key words or submit a message using
> the graphical user interface of the mobile terminal.
>
> The subject domains to be covered include local information and academic
> discussion. The InfoCommon information base initially contains messages
> which might be used as information cards. This allows the user to use the
> forum as a help desk which can be accessed by a set of keywords. In
> addition, information volunteers will continually monitor the forum. If
> some questions are left unanswered, they will manually enter the
> answer into the InfoCommon information space so that it is available
> to others with similar interest.
>
>
>
>

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