Cooperative Information Agents XII

by Klusch, Matthias; Pechoucek, Michal; Polleres, Axel

• ISBN13: 9783540858331
• ISBN10: 3540858334
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 2008, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2008.The book contains 5 invited papers and 19 revised full papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Trust, Applications, Coordination and Communications, and Negotiation.

Table of Contents

Invited Contributions
Enabling Networked Knowledge	p. 1
Coordination and Agreement in Multi-Agent Systems	p. 16
Agents and Databases: A Symbiosis?	p. 24
Agents and Semantic Services: A Critical Review (Abstract)	p. 35
Agent-Supported Planning in Distributed Command and Control Environments	p. 36
Trust
Towards Trust-Based Acquisition of Unverifiable Information	p. 41
Modeling Dynamics of Relative Trust of Competitive Information Agents	p. 55
A Formal Approach to Aggregated Belief Formation	p. 71
Applications
Software Engineering for Service-Oriented MAS	p. 86
A Service-Oriented MultiAgent Architecture for Cognitive Surveillance	p. 101
Trust-Based Classifier Combination for Network Anomaly Detection	p. 116
A Distributed Generative CSP Framework for Multi-site Product Configuration	p. 131
MobiSoft: Networked Personal Assistants for Mobile Users in Everyday Life	p. 147
A Web-Based Virtual Machine for Developing Computational Societies	p. 162
Using the Wizard of Oz Method to Train Persuasive Agents	p. 177
ASBO: Argumentation System Based on Ontologies	p. 191
Coordination and Communication
Controlling Contract Net Protocol by Local Observation for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems	p. 206
Filter Allocation Using Iterative ECNP	p. 221
On the Use of Symbolic Data Analysis to Model Communication Environments	p. 234
Commitment-Based Multiagent Decision Making	p. 249
Negotiation
Towards an Open Negotiation Architecture for Heterogeneous Agents	p. 264
Incrementally Refined Acquaintance Model for Consortia Composition	p. 280
Towards a Monitoring Framework for Agent-Based Contract Systems	p. 292
Collaborative Load-Balancing in Storage Networks Using Agent Negotiation	p. 306
Author Index	p. 321
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