Cooperative Information Agents VIII

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Contributions

   1. Multi-agent Systems and Distributed Data Mining

      • Chris Giannella, Ruchita Bhargava, Hillol Kargupta

      Pages 1-15

   2. Society-Centered Design for Socially Embedded Multiagent Systems

      • Toru Ishida

      Pages 16-29

   3. Agents and OWL-S

      • Terry Payne

      Pages 30-30

3. Information Agents and P2P Computing

   1. Design and Implementation of Agent Community Based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Method

      • Tsunenori Mine, Daisuke Matsuno, Akihiro Kogo, Makoto Amamiya

      Pages 31-46

   2. Towards Monitoring of Group Interactions and Social Roles via Overhearing

      • Silvia Rossi, Paolo Busetta

      Pages 47-61

   3. A Probabilistic Approach to Predict Peers’ Performance in P2P Networks

      • Zoran Despotovic, Karl Aberer

      Pages 62-76

   4. Personalizing Information Retrieval with Multi-agent Systems

      • Fabrício Enembreck, Jean-Paul Barthès, Braulio Coelho Ávila

      Pages 77-91

4. Issues of Communication

   1. On the Impact of Agent Communication Languages on the Implementation of Agent Systems

      • Juan Manuel Serrano, Sascha Ossowski

      Pages 92-106

   2. Reasoning About Communication – A Practical Approach Based on Empirical Semantics

      • Felix Fischer, Michael Rovatsos

      Pages 107-122

   3. The Evolution of Probabilistic Reciprocity in a Multi-agent Environment with Neighborhoods

      • Enda Ridge, Michael G. Madden, Gerard J. Lyons

      Pages 123-136

5. Recommender Agents

   1. Collaboration Analysis in Recommender Systems Using Social Networks

      • Jordi Palau, Miquel Montaner, Beatriz López, Josep Lluís de la Rosa

      Pages 137-151

   2. Qualitative Analysis of User-Based and Item-Based Prediction Algorithms for Recommendation Agents

      • Manos Papagelis, Dimitris Plexousakis

      Pages 152-166

6. Information Agents and Mobile Computing

   1. Agents that Coordinate Devices, Services, and Humans in Ubiquitous Computing

      • Akio Sashima, Noriaki Izumi, Koichi Kurumatani

      Pages 167-182

   2. Multi-agent Technology as an enabler of Computer Supported Cooperative Work for the Mobile Workforce

      • Habin Lee, Patrik Mihailescu, John Shepherdson

      Pages 183-198

   3. A-Globe: Agent Platform with Inaccessibility and Mobility Support

      • David Šišlák, Milan Rollo, Michal Pěchouček

      Pages 199-214

7. Industrial Applications

   1. Supply Chain Management using Multi-agent System

      • Keonsoo Lee, Wonil Kim, Minkoo Kim

      Pages 215-225

   2. An Agent Simulation Model for the Québec Forest Supply Chain

      • Thierry Moyaux, Brahim Chaib-draa, Sophie D’Amours

      Pages 226-241

   3. Performance Analysis Of Multiagent Industrial System

      • Tomasz Babczyński, Zofia Kruczkiewicz, Jan Magott

      Pages 242-256

8. Cooperation in Open Environments

   1. The RoleX Environment for Multi-agent Cooperation

      • Giacomo Cabri, Luca Ferrari, Letizia Leonardi

      Pages 257-270

These are the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2004), held at the Fair and Congress Center in - furt, Germany, September 27–29, 2004. It was part of the multi-conference Net. ObjectDays 2004, and, in particular, was co-located with the 2nd German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies (MATES 2004). In today’s networked world of linked heterogeneous, pervasive computer systems, devices, and information landscapes, the intelligent coordination and provision of relevant added-value information at any time, anywhere, by means of cooperative information agents becomes increasingly important for a variety of applications. An information agent is a computational software entity that has access to one or multiple, heterogeneous, and geographically dispersed data and information sources. It proactively searches for and maintains information on behalf of its human users, or other agents, preferably just in time. In other words,itismanagingandovercomingthedi?cultiesassociatedwithinformation overload in open, pervasive information and service landscapes. Cooperative - formation agents may collaborate with each other to accomplish both individual and shared joint goals depending on the actual preferences of their users, b- getary constraints, and resources available. One major challenge of developing agent-based intelligent information systems in open environments is to balance the autonomy of networked data, information, and knowledge sources with the potential payo? of leveraging them using information agents. Interdisciplinaryresearchanddevelopmentofinformationagentsrequires- pertise in relevant domains of information retrieval, arti?cial intelligence, database systems, human-computer interaction, and Internetand Web techn- ogy.

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• Simulation
• Ubiquitous Computing
• agent communication
• agent cooperation
• agents
• algorithms
• cooperative information agents
• cooperative information systems
• data mining
• information agents
• multi-agent system
• peer-to-peer information retrieval
• pervasive computing
• recommender system

• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbruecken, Germany

  Matthias Klusch

• Centre for Intelligent Information Technologies (CETINIA), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles (Madrid), Spain

  Sascha Ossowski

• National Library of Medicine, USA

  Vipul Kashyap

• Universität Duisburg-Essen,  

  Rainer Unland

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