This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 2006, held in Edinburgh, UK in September 2006.
The 29 revised full papers presented together with four invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on group interaction, reasoning about utility, the dynamics of agent based information provision, applications, agents and services, learning, resource and task allocation, rational cooperation, communication and cooperation, and agent based grid computing.
Author(s): Frank van Harmelen (auth.), Matthias Klusch, Michael Rovatsos, Terry R. Payne (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4149 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 484
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval; Database Management; Computer Communication Networks; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Front Matter....Pages -
Semantic Web Research Anno 2006: Main Streams, Popular Fallacies, Current Status and Future Challenges....Pages 1-7
A Research Agenda for Agent-Based Service-Oriented Architectures....Pages 8-22
The Helpful Environment: Distributed Agents and Services Which Cooperate....Pages 23-32
Voting in Cooperative Information Agent Scenarios: Use and Abuse....Pages 33-50
Agents for Information-Rich Environments....Pages 51-65
Information Agents for Optimal Repurposing and Personalization of Web Contents in Semantics-Aware Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing Environments....Pages 66-80
Turn Taking for Artificial Conversational Agents....Pages 81-95
Inducing Perspective Sharing Between a User and an Embodied Agent by a Thought Balloon as an Input Form....Pages 96-108
Agent-Based Analysis and Support for Incident Management....Pages 109-123
A Distributed Agent Implementation of Multiple Species Flocking Model for Document Partitioning Clustering....Pages 124-137
Coverage Density as a Dominant Property of Large-Scale Sensor Networks....Pages 138-152
Selecting Web Services Statistically....Pages 153-167
Conversation-Based Specification and Composition of Agent Services....Pages 168-182
Evaluating Dynamic Services in Bioinformatics....Pages 183-197
A Classification Framework of Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 198-212
Market-Inspired Approach to Collaborative Learning....Pages 213-227
Improving Example Selection for Agents Teaching Ontology Concepts....Pages 228-242
Egalitarian Allocations of Indivisible Resources: Theory and Computation....Pages 243-257
Iterative Query-Based Approach to Efficient Task Decomposition and Resource Allocation....Pages 258-272
Multilevel Approach to Agent-Based Task Allocation in Transportation....Pages 273-287
Learning to Negotiate Optimally in Non-stationary Environments....Pages 288-300
Eliminating Interdependencies Between Issues for Multi-issue Negotiation....Pages 301-316
The Distortion of Cardinal Preferences in Voting....Pages 317-331
Risk-Bounded Formation of Fuzzy Coalitions Among Service Agents....Pages 332-346
A Simple Argumentation Based Contract Enforcement Mechanism....Pages 347-359
A Fuzzy Approach to Reasoning with Trust, Distrust and Insufficient Trust....Pages 360-374
Performative Patterns for Designing Verifiable ACLs....Pages 375-387
Enabling Mobile Agents Interoperability Through FIPA Standards....Pages 388-401
Characterising Agents’ Behaviours: Selecting Goal Strategies Based on Attributes....Pages 402-415
A Framework of Cooperative Agents with Implicit Support for Ontologies....Pages 416-430
Specifying Protocols for Knowledge Transfer and Action Restriction in Multiagent Systems....Pages 431-445
Flexible Service Composition....Pages 446-460
Using Electronic Institutions to Secure Grid Environments....Pages 461-475
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