Cooperative Information Agents V: 5th International Workshop, CIA 2001, Modena, Italy, September 6-8, 2001, Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540425458 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 292 str.

Franco Zambonelli; Matthias Klusch; M. Klusch

Opis

This work constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 2001, held in Modena, Italy, in September 2001. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 3 full papers and 2 abstracts reflecting invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on personal assistance: interaction and avatars, information search and recommendation, data warehousing and data mining, collaboration and co-ordination, and information agents for mobile and wireless environments.

Spis treści

Personal Assistance: Interaction and Avatars.- Interactive Integration of Information Agents on the Web.- Improving Communication in 3D Virtual Environments by Means of Task Delegation in Agents.- Wizard of Oz Method for Learning Dialog Agents.- Information Search and Recommendation.- Supporting User-Profiled Semantic Web-Oriented Search.- Recommending a Trip Plan by Negotiation with a Software Travel Agent.- CoWing: A Collaborative Bookmark Management System.- Context Aware Agents for Personal Information Services.- Data Warehousing and Mining.- Data Warehouse Quality and Agent Technology.- Decision Trees for Multiple Abstraction Levels of Data.- Collaborative Information Agents: Systems and Applications.- Supporting Information Integration With Autonomous Agents.- Using Agents in Performing Multi-Site Queries.- Extending a Multi-agent System for Genomic Annotation.- Domain-Independent Ontologies for Cooperative Information Agents.- Trading Internet Agents: Auctions.- An Autonomous Bidding Agent for Simultaneous Auctions.- Optimality and Risk in Purchase from Multiple Auctions.- Cryptographic Protocols for Secure Second-Price Auctions.- Trading Internet Agents: Strategies, Negotiation, and Design.- Equilibria Strategies for Selecting Sellers and Satisfying Buyers.- On the Logical Aspects of Argument-Based Negotiation Among Agents.- Introducing a Multi-agent, Multi-criteria Methodology for Modeling Electronic Consumer’s Behavior: The Case of Internet Radio.- Modeling Commercial Knowledge to Develop Advanced Agent-Based Marketplaces for E-commerce.- Arms Race Within Information Ecosystems.- Issues of Collaboration and Coordination.- Information Agents: The Social Nature of Information and the Role of Trust.- A Framework for the Exchange and Installation of Protocols in a Multi-agent System.- Cooperation Between Intelligent Information Agents.- A Mechanism for Temporal Reasoning by Collaborative Agents.- Agent Coordination Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises and Workflow Management.- Information Agents for Mobile and Wireless Environments: Practical Issues and Directions.- Mobile Agents: State of the Art and Research Opportunities.- Enabling FIPA Agents on Small Devices.- Towards Efficient and Reliable Agent Communication in Wireless Environments.- Information Agents for Mobile and Embedded Devices.

O autorze

Franco Zambonelli is professor in Computer Science at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia since 2001. He obtained the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering in 1992, and the PhD in Computer Science in 1997, both from the University of Bologna. His current research interests include: distributed and pervasive computing, agent-oriented software engineering, self-organization in distributed systems engineering. In these areas, he has published over 120 papers in international fora, co-edited 7 books, received several best paper awards, and has been invited speaker and tutorialist in several international conferences and workshops. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, AIIA, and TABOO.