These are the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2007), held at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, September 19–21, 2007. Intoday’sworldofubiquitouslyconnectedheterogeneousinformationsystems and computing devices, the intelligent coordination and provision of relevant added-value information at any time, anywhere is of key importance to a va- ety of applications. This challenge is envisioned to be coped with by means of appropriate intelligent and cooperative information agents. An information agent is a computational software entity that has access to one or multiple heterogeneous and geographically dispersed data and infor- tion sources. It pro-actively searches for and maintains information on behalf of its human users, or other agents preferably just in time. In other words, it is managing and overcoming the di?culties associated with information overload in open, pervasive information and service landscapes. Each component of a modern cooperative information system is represented by an appropriate intelligent information agent capable of resolving system and semantic heterogeneities in a given context on demand. Cooperative infor- tion agents are supposed to accomplish both individual and shared joint goals depending on the actual user preferences in line with given or deduced limits of time, budget and resources available. One major challenge of developing age- based intelligent information systems in open environments like the Internet and the Web is to balance the autonomy of networked data, information, and knowledge sources with the potential payo?s of leveraging them by the use of cooperative and intelligent information agents.
Author(s): Alun Preece (auth.), Matthias Klusch, Koen V. Hindriks, Mike P. Papazoglou, Leon Sterling (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4676 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 364
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Database Management; Computer Communication Networks; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Front Matter....Pages -
Managing Sensors and Information Sources Using Semantic Matchmaking and Argumentation....Pages 1-4
Towards a Delegation Framework for Aerial Robotic Mission Scenarios....Pages 5-26
Analysis of Negotiation Dynamics....Pages 27-35
Multi-agent Learning Dynamics: A Survey....Pages 36-56
An Architecture for Hybrid P2P Free-Text Search....Pages 57-71
Multi-agent Cooperative Planning and Information Gathering....Pages 72-88
Using Distributed Data Mining and Distributed Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Integration....Pages 89-103
Quantifying the Expected Utility of Information in Multi-agent Scheduling Tasks....Pages 104-118
Agent-Based Traffic Control Using Auctions....Pages 119-133
High-Performance Agent System for Intrusion Detection in Backbone Networks....Pages 134-148
A MultiAgent System for Physically Based Rendering Optimization....Pages 149-163
Neural Network Based Multiagent System for Simulation of Investing Strategies....Pages 164-180
Business Ecosystem Modelling: Combining Natural Ecosystems and Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 181-195
From Local Search to Global Behavior: Ad Hoc Network Example....Pages 196-208
A Generic Framework for Argumentation-Based Negotiation....Pages 209-223
The Effect of Mediated Partnerships in Two-Sided Economic Search....Pages 224-240
Who Works Together in Agent Coalition Formation?....Pages 241-254
Using Ant’s Brood Sorting to Increase Fault Tolerance in Linda’s Tuple Distribution Mechanism....Pages 255-269
Agent Behavior Alignment: A Mechanism to Overcome Problems in Agent Interactions During Runtime....Pages 270-284
Methods for Coalition Formation in Adaptation-Based Social Networks....Pages 285-297
Trust Modeling with Context Representation and Generalized Identities....Pages 298-312
Learning Initial Trust Among Interacting Agents....Pages 313-327
A Probabilistic Framework for Decentralized Management of Trust and Quality....Pages 328-342
Formal Analysis of Trust Dynamics in Human and Software Agent Experiments....Pages 343-359
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