The 1999 Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent-Agent Technology

IAT'99 was the first meeting in this new series and was held in Hong Kong from 14 to 17 December. It was sponsored by Hong Kong Baptist University, the Croucher Foundation, the Epson Foundation, The MIT Press, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Hong Kong, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Hong Kong Section Computer Chapter and in cooperation with ACM Special Interest Groups in Artificial Intelligence (SIGART), Knowledge Discovery in Data (SIGKDD), and Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University) and Ning Zhong (Yamaguchi University, Japan) were the program chairs, and Setsuo Ohsuga (Waseda University) and Ernest Lam (Hong Kong Baptist University) were the general chairs. IAT'99 successfully brought together over 150 researchers and practitioners to share their original research results and practical development experiences in intelligent-agent technology. The participants were from Australia, Austria, Belgium, ...