Intelligent Information Agents

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIII

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2. Cooperative Information Systems and Agents

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Matthias Klusch

      Pages 3-9

   3. From Business Processes to Cooperative Information Systems: An Information Agents Perspective

      • Michael P. Papazoglou, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel

      Pages 10-36

   4. Social Abstractions for Information Agents

      • Munindar P. Singh, Michael N. Huhns

      Pages 37-52

   5. Integration of Information from Multiple Sources of Textual Data

      • Sonia Bergamaschi, Domenico Beneventano

      Pages 53-77

   6. In-Context Information Management through Adaptive Collaboration of Intelligent Agents

      • Katia Sycara

      Pages 78-99

   7. A Framework for a Scalable Agent Architecture of Cooperating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources

      • Aris M. Ouksel

      Pages 100-124

3. Rational Information Agents and Electronic Commerce

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Introduction

      • Matthias Klusch

      Pages 127-130

   3. Agents as Mediators in Electronic Commerce

      • Robert Guttman, Alexandros Moukas, Pattie Maes

      Pages 131-152

   4. Auctions and Multi-agent Systems

      • Pablo Noriega, Carles Sierra

      Pages 153-175

   5. Strategic Reasoning and Adaptation in an Information Economy

      • Edmund H. Durfee, Tracy Mullen, Sunju Park, José M. Vidal, Peter Weinstein

      Pages 176-203

   6. SharedPlans in Electronic Commerce

      • Merav Hadad, Sarit Kraus

      Pages 204-231

   7. Dynamic Supply Chain Structuring for Electronic Commerce among Agents

      • Daniel Dajun Zeng, Katia Sycara

      Pages 232-249

4. Adaptive Information Agents

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251

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   2. Introduction

      • Matthias Klusch

      Pages 253-257

   3. Adaptive Choice of Information Sources

      • Sandip Sen, Anish Biswas, Sumit Ghosh

      Pages 258-278

   4. Personal Assistants for the Web: An MIT Perspective

      • Henry Lieberman

      Pages 279-292

   5. Amalthaea and Histos: MultiAgent Systems for WWW Sites and Reputation Recommendations

      • Alexandros Moukas, Giorgos Zacharia, Pattie Maes

      Pages 293-322

Agent technology has recently become one of the most vibrant and fastest growing areas in information technology. Within this booming area, intelligent information agents are attracting particular attention from the research and development community as well as from industry and user communities interested in everyday private and professional applications. This monographic text is the first systematic state-of-the-art survey on intelligent information agents. Eighteen coherently written chapters by leading authorities provide complementary coverage of the relevant issues organized in four parts: cooperative information systems and agents; rational information agents and electronic commerce; adaptive information agents; mobile agents and security. In addition, the volume editor has provided a detailed introductory survey chapter, motivational introductions to the four parts, and a comprehensive bibliography listing more than 700 entries.

• Information Discovery
• Information Technology (IT)
• Intelligent Agents
• Internet Information
• Motivation
• Retrieval
• Software Agents
• agents
• electronic commerce
• information system

• Computer Science Department, Technical University of Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

  Matthias Klusch

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