Cooperative Information Agents XII

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Contributions

   1. Enabling Networked Knowledge

      • Stefan Decker, Manfred Hauswirth

      Pages 1-15

   2. Coordination and Agreement in Multi-Agent Systems

      • Sascha Ossowski

      Pages 16-23

   3. Agents and Databases: A Symbiosis?

      • Heiko Schuldt

      Pages 24-34

   4. Agents and Semantic Services: A Critical Review

      • Katia P. Sycara

      Pages 35-35

   5. Agent-Supported Planning in Distributed Command and Control Environments

      • James H. Lawton

      Pages 36-40

3. Trust

   1. Towards Trust-Based Acquisition of Unverifiable Information

      • Eugen Staab, Volker Fusenig, Thomas Engel

      Pages 41-54

   2. Modeling Dynamics of Relative Trust of Competitive Information Agents

      • Mark Hoogendoorn, S. Waqar Jaffry, Jan Treur

      Pages 55-70

   3. A Formal Approach to Aggregated Belief Formation

      • Annerieke Heuvelink, Michel C. A. Klein, Jan Treur

      Pages 71-85

4. Applications

   1. Software Engineering for Service-Oriented MAS

      • Emilia Garcia, Adriana Giret, Vicente Botti

      Pages 86-100

   2. A Service-Oriented MultiAgent Architecture for Cognitive Surveillance

      • David Vallejo, Javier Albusac, Carlos Gonzalez-Morcillo, Luis Jimenez

      Pages 101-115

   3. Trust-Based Classifier Combination for Network Anomaly Detection

      • Martin rehák, Michal pěchouček, Martin Grill, Karel Bartos

      Pages 116-130

   4. A Distributed Generative CSP Framework for Multi-site Product Configuration

      • Markus Zanker, Dietmar Jannach, Marius C. Silaghi, Gerhard Friedrich

      Pages 131-146

   5. MobiSoft: Networked Personal Assistants for Mobile Users in Everyday Life

      • Christian Erfurth, Steffen Kern, Wilhelm Rossak, Peter Braun, Antje Leßmann

      Pages 147-161

   6. A Web-Based Virtual Machine for Developing Computational Societies

      • Sergio Saugar, Juan M. Serrano

      Pages 162-176

   7. Using the Wizard of Oz Method to Train Persuasive Agents

      • Maiko Kawasoe, Tatsuya Narita, Yasuhiko Kitamura

      Pages 177-190

   8. ASBO: Argumentation System Based on Ontologies

      • Andrés Muñoz, Juan A. Botía

      Pages 191-205

5. Coordination and Communication

   1. Controling Contract Net Protocol by Local Observation for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems

      • Toshiharu Sugawara, Toshio Hirotsu, Satoshi Kurihara, Kensuke Fukuda

      Pages 206-220

   2. Filter Allocation Using Iterative ECNP

      • Jan Tožička, Štěpán Urban, Magdalena prokopova, Michal Pěchouček

      Pages 221-233

   3. On the Use of Symbolic Data Analysis to Model Communication Environments

      • Flavien Balbo, Julien Saunier

      Pages 234-248

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 2008, held in Prague, Czech Republik, in September 2008. The book contains 5 invited papers and 19 revised full papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Trust, Applications, Coordination and Communications, and Negotiation.

• Argumentation
• agents
• cognitive surveillance
• cooperative information systems
• data analysis
• distributed generative csp
• knowledge
• modeling
• multi agent systems
• multi-agent system
• ontology
• relative trust
• semantic service
• symbolic data analysis
• virtual machine

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