Intelligent Agents and Their Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Agent-Based Intelligent Information Dissemination in Dynamically Changing Environments

   • H. Sevay, C. Tsatsoulis

   Pages 1-26

3. Automating Human Information Agents

   • S. Franklin

   Pages 27-58

4. Knowledge Robots for Knowledge Workers: Self-Learning Agents Connecting Information and Skills

   • J. Hasebrook, L. Erasmus, G. Doeben-Henisch

   Pages 59-81

5. Ontologies in Web Intelligence

   • N. Zhong

   Pages 83-100

6. Software Agents for Internet-Based Systems and Their Design

   • H. H. Pham

   Pages 101-147

7. Compositional Design and Maintenance of Broker Agents

   • C. M. Jonker, J. Treur

   Pages 149-172

8. Collective Behavior Evolution in a Group of Cooperating Agents

   • J. Liu, J. Wu

   Pages 173-216

9. Applications of Information Agent Systems

   • M. Klusch, H.-J. Bürckert, P. Funk, A. Gerber, C. Russ

   Pages 217-248

10. The Use of Virtual Worlds and Animated Personas to Improve Healthcare Knowledge and Self-Care Behavior: The Case of the HEART-SENSE Game

    • B. G. Silverman, J. Holmes, S. Kimmel, C. Branas, D. Ivins, R. Weaver

    Pages 249-294

11. Using Agents to Build a Practical Implementation of the INCA (Intelligent Community Alarm) System

    • M. Beer, W. Huang, A. Sixsmith

    Pages 295-328

12. Back Matter

    Pages 329-338

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Intelligent agents are one of the most promising business tools in our information rich world. An intelligent agent consists of a software system capable of performing intelligent tasks within a dynamic and unpredictable environment. They can be characterised by various attributes including: autonomous, adaptive, collaborative, communicative, mobile, and reactive. Many problems are not well defined and the information needed to make decisions is not available. These problems are not easy to solve using conventional computing approaches. Here, the intelligent agent paradigm may play a major role in helping to solve these problems. This book, written for application researchers, covers a broad selection of research results that demonstrate, in an authoritative and clear manner, the applications of agents within our information society.

• Applications
• Infotrmation Agent Systems
• Internet
• Web Intelligence
• agents
• behavior
• evolution
• healthcare
• information society
• intelligence
• knowledge
• ontology
• robot
• software
• software agents

• Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Adelaide, Australia

  Lakhmi C. Jain, Nikhil Ichalkaranje

• Department of Computer Science, University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA

  Zhengxin Chen

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