Cooperative Information Agents III

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Information Discovery and Management on the Internet

   1. Agent Technology from a NASA Perspective

      • Walt Truszkowski, Harold Hallock

      Pages 1-33

   2. Digital City Kyoto: Towards a Social Information Infrastructure

      • Toni Ishida, Jun-ichi Akahani, Kaoru Hiramatsu, Katherine Isbister, Stefan Lisowski, Hideyuki Nakanishi et al.

      Pages 34-46

   3. Autonomous Search for Information in an Unknown Environment

      • Erol Gelenbe

      Pages 47-60

   4. Resource Management in Agent-based Distributed Environments

      • Alexander Brodsky, Larry Kerschberg, Samuel Varas

      Pages 61-85

3. Information Agents on the Internet - Prototypes, Systems and Applications

   1. A Multi-agent Architecture for an Intelligent Website in Insurance

      • Catholijn M. Jonker, Remco A. Lam, Jan Treur

      Pages 86-100

   2. Formation of Cooperative Behavior among Information Agents in Web Repository Change Monitoring Service

      • Santi Saeyor, Mitsuru Ishizuka

      Pages 101-112

   3. GETESS—Searching the Web Exploiting German Texts

      • Steffen Staab, Christian Braun, Ilvio Bruder, Antje Düsterhöft, Andreas Heuer, Meike Klettke et al.

      Pages 113-124

   4. An Agent Based System for Intelligent Collaborative Filtering

      • Colm O’Riordan, Humphrey Sorensen

      Pages 125-136

4. Communication and Collaboration

   1. Inter-Agent Communication in Cooperative Information Agent-Based Systems

      • Hassan Gomaa

      Pages 137-148

   2. Intention Reconciliation in the Context of Teamwork: An Initial Empirical Investigation

      • David G. Sullivan, Alyssa Glass, Barbara J. Grosz, Sarit Kraus

      Pages 149-162

   3. A Similarity Evaluation Technique for Cooperative Problem Solving with a Group of Agents

      • Seppo Puuronen, Vagan Terziyan

      Pages 163-174

   4. A Computational Model for a Cooperating Agent System

      • S. M. Deen

      Pages 175-195

5. Mobile Information Agents

   1. Mobile Agents Behaviours: From Declarative Specifications to Implementation

      • C. Hanachi, N. Hameurlain, C. Sibertin-Blanc

      Pages 196-207

   2. Maintaining Specialized Search Engines through Mobile Filter Agents

      • Wolfgang Theilmann, Kurt Rothermel

      Pages 208-219

   3. Execution Monitoring in Adaptive Mobile Agents

      • Walter Vieira, L. M. Camarinha-Matos

      Pages 220-231

   4. Mobile-Agent Mediated Place Oriented Communication

      • Yasuhiko Kitamura, Yasuhiro Mawarimichi, Shoji Tatsumi

      Pages 232-242

6. Rational Information Agents for Electronic Business

   1. Agents and Electronic Commerce: Mechanisms and Protocols (Abstract)

      • Michael P. Wellman

      Pages 243-244

   2. The Role of Agent Technology in Business to Business Electronic Commerce

      • Mike P. Papazoglou

      Pages 245-264

   3. An Agency-Based Framework for Electronic Business

      • Larry Kerschberg, Sonali Banerjee

      Pages 265-290

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Cooperative Information Systems, CIA'99, held in Uppsala, Sweden in July/August 1999.
The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 46 submissions. Also included are ten invited contributions by leading experts. The volume is divided in sections on information discovery and management on the Internet; information agents on the Internet-prototypes systems and applications; communication and collaboration, mobile information agents; rational information agents for electronic business; service mediation and negotiation; and adaptive personal assistance.

• Internet
• Intranet
• agents
• behavior
• electronic commerce
• information system
• problem solving
• service-oriented computing
• software agent

• DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd., Saarbrücken, Germany

  Matthias Klusch

• The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  Onn M. Shehory

• Institut für Informatik, Technische Universitä München, München, Germany

  Gerhard Weiss

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