These are the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2003), held at the Sonera Conference Center in H- sinki, Finland, August 27–29, 2003. It was co-located with the 4th Agentcities Information Days. One key challenge of developing advanced agent-based information systems is to balance the autonomy of networked data and knowledge sources with the pot- tial payo? of leveraging them by the appropriate use of intelligent information agents on the Internet. An information agent is a computational software entity thathasaccesstooneormultiple,heterogeneous,anddistributeddataandinf- mation sources; proactively searches for and maintains relevant information on behalfofitshumanusersorotheragents,preferablyjust-in-time. Inotherwords, it is managing and overcoming the di?culties associated with information ov- load in the open and exponentially growing Internet and Web. Depending on the application and tasks at hand information agents may collaborate in open, n- worked data and information environments to provide added value to a variety of applications in di?erent domains. Thus, research and development of inf- mation agents is inherently interdisciplinary: It requires expertise in information retrieval, arti?cial intelligence, database systems, human-computer interaction, and Internet and Web technology. Initiated in 1997, the purpose of the annual international workshop series on cooperativeinformationagents(CIA)istoprovideaninterdisciplinaryforumfor researchers, software developers, and managers to get informed about, present, anddiscussthelatesthigh-qualityresultsinadvancementsoftheoryandpractice in information agent technology for the Internet and Web. Each event of this renowned series attempts to capture the intrinsic interdisciplinary nature of this research area by calling for contributions from di?erent research communities, and by promoting open and informative discussions on all related topics.
Author(s): Conor Muldoon, Gregory O’Hare, Donnacha Phelan, Robin Strahan, Rem Collier (auth.), Matthias Klusch, Andrea Omicini, Sascha Ossowski, Heimo Laamanen (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2782 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 352
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Database Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
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ACCESS: An Agent Architecture for Ubiquitous Service Delivery....Pages 1-15
Adaptive Agent-Based Service Composition for Wireless Terminals....Pages 16-29
An Information Notification Model with VPC on KODAMA in an Ubiquitous Computing Environment, and Its Experiment....Pages 30-45
Multi-agent Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing: Methods, Systems, and Challenges....Pages 46-61
A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Resource Discovery in Multi-agent Systems....Pages 62-77
Ostensive Automatic Schema Mapping for Taxonomy-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems....Pages 78-92
Proposal-Based Negotiation in Convex Regions....Pages 93-108
A Conversational Component-Based Open Multi-agent Architecture for Flexible Information Trading....Pages 109-116
The Search for Coalition Formation in Costly Environments....Pages 117-136
GraniteNights – A Multi-agent Visit Scheduler Utilising Semantic Web Technology....Pages 137-151
Send Fredo off to Do This, Send Fredo off to Do That....Pages 152-159
Database Integration Using Mobile Agents....Pages 160-167
Adaptive Web Search Based on a Colony of Cooperative Distributed Agents....Pages 168-183
Agents for Collaborative Filtering....Pages 184-191
Emergence and Stability of Collaborations Among Rational Agents....Pages 192-205
A Framework for the Social Description of Resources in Open Environments....Pages 206-221
A Coordination Framework for a Community of Over-Helping Agents....Pages 222-237
Trust Networks on the Semantic Web....Pages 238-249
Exchanging Advice and Learning to Trust....Pages 250-265
A Component-Based Approach for Interoperability across FIPA-Compliant Platforms....Pages 266-280
Logic Programming for Evolving Agents....Pages 281-297
Temporal and Spatial Analysis to Personalise an Agent’s Dynamic Belief, Desire, and Intention Profiles....Pages 298-315
Meta-reasoning for Agents’ Private Knowledge Detection....Pages 316-323
Formalizing Retrieval Goal Change by Prioritized Circumscription – Preliminary Report –....Pages 324-335
Organisational Change: Deliberation and Modification....Pages 336-344
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