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

ISBN-13: 9783540646761 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 314 str.

M. Klusch; J. Van Leeuwen; J. Hartmanis

Opis

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.

Spis treści

What can agents do in industry, and why? An overview of industrially-oriented R&D at CEC.- The InfoSleuth agent system.- Agents for hypermedia information discovery.- Trafficopter: A distributed collection system for traffic information.- Agent-supported information retrieval for tracking and tracing.- The dynamics of the UMDL service market society.- Multiagent systems in information-rich environments.- Strategies for querying information agents.- Grand challenge problems on cross cultural communication -Toward socially intelligent agents-.- Agents in electronic commerce: Component technologies for automated negotiation and coalition formation.- Cooperative vs. Competitive multi-agent negotiations in retail electronic commerce.- Enhancing mobile agents with electronic commerce capabilities.- Dynamics of an information-filtering economy.- Levels of adaptivity in systems of coordinating information agents.- Adaptive choice of information sources.- Agent mediated collaborative web page filtering.- Content-based collaborative information filtering: Actively learning to classify and recommend documents.- Domain experts for information retrieval in the World Wide Web.- Semantic navigation maps for information agents.- Coordination patterns of mobile information agents.- Mobile information agents on the web.- Melding abstractions with mobile agents.- Data-security in heterogeneous agent systems.