Two KMi-ers, Chongming Hou and Maria Vargas-Vera delivered talks in the joint conference on their research papers accepted by the highly competitive IAT’04 and WI’04, respectively. Chongming Hou presented a paper at IAT’04 about predicting agents&#39 tactics in automated negotiation. Maria Vargas-Vera’s paper in WI’04 was about event recognition on news stories and the semi-automatic…