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Cooperative Information Agents IV - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace

4th International Workshop, CIA 2000 Boston, MA, USA, July 7-9, 2000 Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Matthias Klusch

    1. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbruecken, Germany

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  2. Larry Kerschberg

    1. E-Center for E-Business and Department of Computer Science Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1860)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Personal Information Agents on the Internet

    1. Adding Life-Like Synthetic Characters to the Web

      • Elisabeth André, Thomas Rist
      Pages 1-13

    2. Affective Computing for Future Agents

      • Rosalind W. Picard
      Pages 14-14

  3. Agent-Based Information Gathering and Mediation

    1. Knowledge Agents on the Web

      • Yariv Aridor, David Carmel, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer, Yoelle S. Maarek
      Pages 15-26

    2. ICEBERG: Exploiting Context in Information Brokering Agents

      • Catholijn M. Jonker, Arjen Vollebregt
      Pages 27-38

    3. A Dynamic Access Planning Method for Information Mediator

      • Yasuhiko Kitamura, Tomoya Noda, Shoji Tatsumi
      Pages 39-50

    4. What Is Query Rewriting?

      • Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Lenzerini, Moshe Y. Vardi
      Pages 51-59

    5. Applying Agents to Bioinformatics in GeneWeaver

      • K. Bryson, M. Luck, M. Joy, D. T. Jones
      Pages 60-71

  4. Rational Information Agents for E-Commerce

    1. Economic Incentives for Information Agents

      • Jeffrey O. Kephart
      Pages 72-82

    2. Auctio-Based Agent Negotiation via Programmable Tuple Spaces

      • Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli
      Pages 83-94

    3. Task Assignment in Multiagent Systems Based on Vickrey-Type Auctioning and Leveled Commitment Contracting

      • Felix Brandt, Wilfried Brauer, Gerhard Weiß
      Pages 95-106

    4. Bilateral Negotiation with Incomplete and Uncertain Information: A Decision-Theoretic Approach Using a Model of the Opponent

      • Chhaya Mudgal, Julita Vassileva
      Pages 107-118

    5. On Ensuring Lower Bounds of Negotiation Results

      • Otmar Görlitz, Ralf Neubert, Wolfgang Benn
      Pages 119-130

    6. Towards an Experience Based Negotiation Agent

      • Wai Yat Wong, Dong Mei Zhang, Mustapha Kara-Ali
      Pages 131-142

  5. Societies of Information Agents

    1. Emergen Societies of Information Agents

      • Paul Davidsson
      Pages 143-153

    2. A Social Mechanism of Reputation Management in Electronic Communities

      • Bin Yu, Munindar P. Singh
      Pages 154-165

    3. A Cybernetic Approach to the Modeling of Agent Communities

      • Walt Truszkowski, Jay Karlin
      Pages 166-178

    4. Role of Acquaintance Models in Agent-Based Production Planning System

      • Michael Pečhoǔcek, Vladimir Mařík, Olga Štěpánková
      Pages 179-190

  6. Issues of Communication and Collaboration

    1. Agent Communication and Cooperative Information Agents

      • Frank Dignum
      Pages 191-207

    2. Towards Information Agent Interoperability

      • Stefan Haustein, Sascha Lüdecke
      Pages 208-218
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About this book

These arethe proceedingsof the Fourth InternationalWorkshopon Cooperative Information Agents, held in Boston Massachusetts, USA, July 7-9, 2000. Cooperative information agent research and development focused originally onaccessingmultiple,heterogeneous,anddistributedinformationsources. Ga- ingaccesstothesesystems,throughInternetsearchengines,applicationprogram interfaces, wrappers, and web-based screens has been an important focus of - operative intelligent agents. Research has also focused on the integration of this information into a coherent model that combined data and knowledge from the multiple sources. Finally, this information is disseminated to a wide audience, giving rise to issues such as data quality, information pedigree, source reliability, information security, personal privacy, and information value. Research in - operative information agents has expanded to include agent negotiation, agent communities, agent mobility, as well as agent collaboration for information d- covery in constrained environments. TheinterdisciplinaryCIAworkshopseriesencompassesa widevarietyoft- ics dealing with cooperative information agents. All workshop proceedings have been published by Springer as Lecture Notes in Arti?cial Intelligence, Volumes 1202 (1997), 1435 (1998), and 1652 (1999), respectively. This year, the theme of the CIA workshop was ”’The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace”, a very ?tting topic as the use of agents for information gathering, negotiation, correlation, fusion, and dissemination becomes ever more prevalent. We noted a marked trend in CIA 2000 towards addressing issues related to communities of agents that: (1) negotiate for information resources, (2) build robust ontologies to enhance search capabilities, (3) communicate forplanning and problem so- ing, (4) learn and evolve based on their experiences, and (5) assume increasing degrees of autonomy in the control of complex systems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  • E-Center for E-Business and Department of Computer Science Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

    Larry Kerschberg

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