Cooperative Information Agents VII : 7th International Workshop on CIA 2003, Helsinki, Finland, August 27-29, 2003 - Proceedings

by CIA 200 (2003 Helsinki, Finland); Ossowski, Sascha; Omicini, Andrea; Laamanen, Heimo; Klusch, Matthias

• ISBN13: 9783540407980
• ISBN10: 3540407987
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Information Agents, CIA 2002, held in Helsinki, Finland in August 2003.The 17 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on pervasive information service provision, information agents and peer-to-peer computing, trading and negotiation, information gathering and integration, collaborative search and filtering, collaboration in open environments, trust in agent-based information provision, and information agent systems engineering.

Table of Contents

ACCESS: An Agent Architecture for Ubiquitous Service Delivery	p. 1
Adaptive Agent-Based Service Composition for Wireless Terminals	p. 16
An Information Notification Model with VPC on KODAMA in an Ubiquitous Computing Environment, and Its Experiment	p. 30
Multi-agent Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing: Methods, Systems, and Challenges	p. 46
A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Resource Discovery in Multi-agent Systems	p. 62
Ostensive Automatic Schema Mapping for Taxonomy-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems	p. 78
Proposal-Based Negotiation in Convex Regions	p. 93
A Conversational Component-Based Open Multi-agent Architecture for Flexible Information Trading	p. 109
The Search for Coalition Formation in Costly Environments	p. 117
GraniteNights - A Multi-agent Visit Scheduler Utilising Semantic Web Technology	p. 137
Send Fredo off to Do This, Send Fredo off to Do That	p. 152
Database Integration Using Mobile Agents	p. 160
Adaptive Web Search Based on a Colony of Cooperative Distributed Agents	p. 168
Agents for Collaborative Filtering	p. 184
Emergence and Stability of Collaborations Among Rational Agents	p. 192
A Framework for the Social Description of Resources in Open Environments	p. 206
A Coordination Framework for a Community of Over-Helping Agents	p. 222
Trust Networks on the Semantic Web	p. 238
Exchanging Advice and Learning to Trust	p. 250
A Component-Based Approach for Interoperability across FIPA-Compliant Platforms	p. 266
Logic Programming for Evolving Agents	p. 281
Temporal and Spatial Analysis to Personalise an Agent's Dynamic Belief, Desire, and Intention Profiles	p. 298
Meta-reasoning for Agents' Private Knowledge Detection	p. 316
Formalizing Retrieval Goal Change by Prioritized Circumscription Preliminary Report	p. 324
Organisational Change: Deliberation and Modification	p. 336
Author Index	p. 345
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