Cooperative Information Agents VI

by CIA 200 (2002 Universidad De Rey Juan Carlos, Spain); Ossowski, Sascha; Shehory, Onn M.

• ISBN13: 9783540441731
• ISBN10: 3540441735
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 2002, held in Madrid, Spain, in September 2002.The revised papers - 15 full and 8 short - presented together with 4 invited contributions, were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information agents for mobile computing environments, interaction and negotiation, information gathering and collaborative filtering, agent-based information and knowledge management, agent communication and cooperation, and information agent mobility.

Table of Contents

Invited Contributions
Agents, Crawlers, and Web Retrieval	p. 1
Intelligent Interfaces for Information Agents: Systems, Experiences, Future Challenges	p. 10
Electronic Institutions: Future Trends and Challenges	p. 14
Making Peer Databases Interact - A Vision for an Architecture Supporting Data Coordination	p. 18
Information Agents for Mobile Computing Environments Tourists on the Move	p. 36
An Agent-Based Approach for Helping Users of Hand-Held Devices to Browse Software Catalogs	p. 51
Large Scale Peer-to-Peer Experiments with Virtual Private Community (VPC) Framework	p. 66
Issues of Interaction and Negotiation
A Cognitive Architecture for the Design of an Interaction Agent	p. 82
A Multi-agent Reflective Architecture for User Assistance and Its Application to E-commerce	p. 90
Curious Negotiator	p. 104
Measuring Behaviour-Based Trust between Negotiating Agents	p. 112
Information Gathering and Collaborative Filtering Acquiring an Optimal Amount of Information for Choosing from Alternatives	p. 123
A Competitive Information Recommendation System and Its Behavior	p. 138
Agents That Model and Learn User Interests for Dynamic Collaborative Filtering	p. 152
Opinion-Based Filtering through Trust	p. 164
Agent-Based Information and Knowledge Management
Data Models and Languages for Agent-Based Textual Information Dissemination	p. 179
Integrating Distributed Information Sources with CARROT II	p. 194
Distributed Artificial Intelligence for Distributed Corporate Knowledge Management	p. 202
Integrating Information Gathering and Problem-Solving in Open Environments	p. 218
Supporting Virtual Organisations Using BDI Agents and Constraints	p. 226
Issues of Agent Communication and Cooperation
An Approach to Agent Communication Based on Organisational Roles	p. 241
Exploiting Partially Shared Ontologies for Multi-agent Communication	p. 249
Evaluation of Distributed and Centralized Agent Location Mechanisms	p. 264
Exchanging and Combining Temporal Information in a Cooperative Environment	p. 279
Issues of Information Agent Mobility
Programming Agent Mobility	p. 287
A Method for Protecting Mobile Agents against Denial of Service Attacks	p. 297
Threshold Route Optimization Algorithm for Information Retrieving Mobile Agents	p. 312
Author Index	p. 321
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