Cooperative Information Agents - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace : 4th International Workshop, CIA 2000, Boston, MA, USA, July 7-9, 2000 Proceedings

by CIA 200 (2000 Boston, Mass.); Klusch, Matthias; Kerschberg, Larry

• ISBN13: 9783540677031
• ISBN10: 3540677038
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 2000, held in Boston, MA, USA, in July 2000, in association with ICMAS 2000.The 15 revised full papers presented together with seven invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The book is divided into sections on personal information agents on the Internet, agent-based information gathering and mediation, rational information agents for e-commerce, societies of information agents, communication and collaboration, and future inspirations and design.

Table of Contents

Personal Information Agents on the Internet
Invited Contribution
Adding Life-Like Synthetic Characters to the Web	1	(13)
E. Andre
T. Rist
Invited Contribution (Abstract)
Affective Computing for Future Agents	14	(1)
R. W. Picard
Agent-Based Information Gathering and Mediation
Knowledge Agents on the Web	15	(12)
Y. Aridor
D. Carmel
R. Lempel
A. Soffer
Y.S. Maarek
ICEBERG: Exploiting Context in Information Brokering Agents	27	(12)
C.M. Jonker
A. Vollebregt
A Dynamic Access Planning Method for Information Mediator	39	(12)
Y. Kitamura
T. Noda
S. Tatsumi
What is Query Rewriting?	51	(9)
D. Calvanese
G. De Giacomo
M. Lenzerini
M.Y. Vardi
Applying Agents to Bioinformatics in GeneWeaver	60	(12)
K. Bryson
M. Luck
M. Joy
D. T. Jones
Rational Information Agents for E-Commerce
Invited Contribution
Economic Incentives for Information Agents	72	(11)
J.O. Kephart
Auction-Based Agent Negotiation via Programmable Tuple Spaces	83	(12)
G. Cabri
L. Leonardi
F. Zambonelli
Task Assignment in Multiagent Systems Based on Vickrey-Type Auctioning and Leveled Commitment Contracting	95	(12)
F. Brandt
W. Brauer
G. Weiss
Bilateral Negotiation with Incomplete and Uncertain Information: A Decision-Theoretic Approach Using a Model of the Opponent	107	(12)
C. Mudgal
J. Vassileva
On Ensuring Lower Bounds of Negotiation Results	119	(12)
O. Gorlitz
R. Neubert
W. Benn
Towards an Experience-Based Negotiation Agent	131	(12)
W.Y. Wong
D.M. Zhang
M. Kara-Ali
Societies of Information Agents
Invited Contribution
Emergent Societies of Information Agents	143	(11)
P. Davidsson
A Social Mechanism of Reputation Management in Electronic Communities	154	(12)
B. Yu
M.P. Singh
A Cybernetic Approach to the Modeling of Agent Communities	166	(13)
W. Truszkowski
J. Karlin
Role of Acquaintance Models in Agent-Based Production Planning System	179	(12)
M. Pechoucek
V. Marik
O. Stepankova
Issues of Communication and Collaboration
Invited Contribution
Agent Communication and Cooperative Information Agents	191	(17)
F. Dignum
Towards Information Agent Interoperability	208	(12)
S. Haustein
S. Luedecke
Exploiting the Ontological Qualities of Web Resources: Task-Driven Agents Structure Knowledge for Problem Solving	220	(12)
L. Crow
N. Shadbolt
Automatic Ontology Construction for a Multiagent-Based Software Gathering Service	232	(12)
E. Mena
A. Illarramendi
A. Goni
Information Agents: Future Inspirations and Design
Invited Contribution (Extended Abstract)
Inspiration for Future Autonomous Space Systems	244	(3)
R. J. Doyle
Invited Contribution
Mobile Information Agents for Cyberspace - State of the Art and Visions	247	(15)
T. Papaioannou
Design of Collaborative Information Agents	262	(23)
C. M. Jonker
M. Klusch
J. Treur
Author Index	285