Cooperative Information Agents III

Cooperative Information Agents III
Author: Matthias Klusch
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2003-07-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540484140

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Cooperative Information Systems, CIA'99, held in Uppsala, Sweden in July/August 1999. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 46 submissions. Also included are ten invited contributions by leading experts. The volume is divided in sections on information discovery and management on the Internet; information agents on the Internet-prototypes systems and applications; communication and collaboration, mobile information agents; rational information agents for electronic business; service mediation and negotiation; and adaptive personal assistance.

Cooperative Information Agents II. Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet

Cooperative Information Agents II. Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet
Author: Matthias Klusch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 18
Release: 1998-06-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540646761

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Information Systems, CIA'98, held in cognition with Agents World in July 1998 in Paris. The book presents nine invited contributions together with 14 revised full papers selected from a total of 54 submissions. The book is divided in parts on systems and applications; issues of design, querying, and communication; rational cooperation and electronic commerce; adaptive and collaborative information gathering; and mobile information agents in the internet.

Cooperative Information Agents IV - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace

Cooperative Information Agents IV - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace
Author: Matthias Klusch
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2004-02-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540450122

These arethe proceedingsof the Fourth InternationalWorkshopon Cooperative Information Agents, held in Boston Massachusetts, USA, July 7-9, 2000. Cooperative information agent research and development focused originally onaccessingmultiple,heterogeneous,anddistributedinformationsources. Ga- ingaccesstothesesystems,throughInternetsearchengines,applicationprogram interfaces, wrappers, and web-based screens has been an important focus of - operative intelligent agents. Research has also focused on the integration of this information into a coherent model that combined data and knowledge from the multiple sources. Finally, this information is disseminated to a wide audience, giving rise to issues such as data quality, information pedigree, source reliability, information security, personal privacy, and information value. Research in - operative information agents has expanded to include agent negotiation, agent communities, agent mobility, as well as agent collaboration for information d- covery in constrained environments. TheinterdisciplinaryCIAworkshopseriesencompassesa widevarietyoft- ics dealing with cooperative information agents. All workshop proceedings have been published by Springer as Lecture Notes in Arti?cial Intelligence, Volumes 1202 (1997), 1435 (1998), and 1652 (1999), respectively. This year, the theme of the CIA workshop was ”’The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace”, a very ?tting topic as the use of agents for information gathering, negotiation, correlation, fusion, and dissemination becomes ever more prevalent. We noted a marked trend in CIA 2000 towards addressing issues related to communities of agents that: (1) negotiate for information resources, (2) build robust ontologies to enhance search capabilities, (3) communicate for planning and problem so- ing, (4) learn and evolve based on their experiences, and (5) assume increasing degrees of autonomy in the control of complex systems.

Cooperative Information Agents V

Cooperative Information Agents V
Author: Matthias Klusch
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2003-06-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540447997

These are the proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, held in Modena, Italy, September 6-8, 2001. Information agent technology has become one of the major key technologies for the Internet and the World Wide Web. It mainly emerged as a response to the challenges of cyberspace from both the technological and human user perspective. Development of information agents requires expertise from di?erent research disciplines such as Arti?cial Intelligence (AI), advanced databases and knowledge base systems, distributed information systems, information retrieval, and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). The ?fth international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA) continued the tradition by capturing the intrinsic interdisciplinary nature of the above research area by calling for contributions from di?erent research communities, and by promoting open and informative discussions on all related topics. In keeping with tradition, the workshop featured a sequence of regular and invited talks of excellence given by leading experts in the ?eld. This year the topics of the talks are mainly on the challenges of information agents in the upcoming age of ubiquitous and pervasive computing. These challenges are in particular due to the necessity of an e?cient utilization, evolution, and trust management of information agents for user-oriented information search, pro- sion, and visualization in networked computing environments with small, mobile, and embedded devices. A di?erent issue concerns the potential of agent-based support of massive distributed data warehousing worldwide.

Cooperative Information Agents

Cooperative Information Agents
Author: Peter Kandzia
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1997-02-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540625919

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents - DAI Meets Databases, CIA-97, held in Kiel, Germany, in February 1997. The book opens with 6 invited full papers by internationally leading researchers surveying the state of the art in the area. The 16 revised full research papers presented were carefully selected during a highly competitive round of reviewing. The papers are organized in topical sections on databases and agent technology, agents for database search and knowledge discovery, communication and cooperation among information agents, and agent-based access to heterogeneous information sources.

Cooperative Information Agents X

Cooperative Information Agents X
Author: Matthias Klusch
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2006-09-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540385703

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 2006, held in Edinburgh, UK in September 2006. The 29 revised full papers presented together with four invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections.

Managing Information Technology in a Global Economy

Managing Information Technology in a Global Economy
Author: Information Resources Management Association. International Conference
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 1226
Release: 2001
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781930708075

Today, opportunities and challenges of available technology can be utilized as strategic and tactical resources for your organization. Conversely, failure to be current on the latest trends and issues of IT can lead to ineffective and inefficient management of IT resources. Managing Information Technology in a Global Economy is a valuable collection of papers that presents IT management perspectives from professionals around the world. The papers introduce new ideas, refine old ones and possess interesting scenarios to help the reader develop company-sensitive management strategies.

Intelligent Information Agents

Intelligent Information Agents
Author: Matthias Klusch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642600182

This book covers a broad range of intelligent information agents, presenting the latest state-of-the-art research in the field. Each section is systematically and coherently introduced, including coverage of cooperative information systems and agents; rational information agents and electronic commerce; adaptive information agents; and mobile information agents and security on the Internet. Focusing on applications of intelligent agents on the World Wide Web, this reference will prove invaluable to professionals involved in this rapidly growing application of artificial intelligence.

Intelligent Agents III. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages

Intelligent Agents III. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Author: Michael J. Wooldridge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1997-01-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540625070

Intelligent agents are computer systems that are capable of flexible autonomous action in dynamic, typically multi-agent domains. Over the past few years, the computer science community has begun to recognise that the technology of intelligent agents provides the key to solving a range of complex software application problems, for which traditional software engineering tools and techniques offer no solution. This book, the third in a series, represents the state of the art in the science of agent systems. It is based on papers presented at the 3rd workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (ATAL'96), held in conjunction with the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'96) in Budapest, Hungary, in August 1996. It is essential reading for anyone interested in this vital new technology.

Cooperative Agents

Cooperative Agents
Author: N.J. Saam
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2002-01-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781402001901

Agent-based modelling on a computer appears to have a special role to play in the development of social science. It offers a means of discovering general and applicable social theory, and grounding it in precise assumptions and derivations, whilst addressing those elements of individual cognition that are central to human society. However, there are important questions to be asked and difficulties to overcome in achieving this potential. What differentiates agent-based modelling from traditional computer modelling? Which model types should be used under which circumstances? If it is appropriate to use a complex model, how can it be validated? Is social simulation research to adopt a realist epistemology, or can it operate within a social constructionist framework? What are the sociological concepts of norms and norm processing that could either be used for planned implementation or for identifying equivalents of social norms among co-operative agents? Can sustainability be achieved more easily in a hierarchical agent society than in a society of isolated agents? What examples are there of hybrid forms of interaction between humans and artificial agents? These are some of the sociological questions that are addressed.