ISBN: 3540663258
TITLE: Cooperative Information Agents III
AUTHOR: Klusch, Matthias; Shehory, Onn M.; Wei, Gerhard (Eds.)
TOC:

Information Discovery and Management on the Internet
Invited Contribution:
Agent Technology from a NASA Perspective 1
W. Truszkowski, H. Hallock, and J. Kurien (USA)
Invited Contribution:
Digital City Kyoto: Towards a Social Information Infrastructure 34
T. Ishida, J.-i. Akahani, K. Hiramatsu, K. Isbister, S. Lisowski, H. Nakanishi, Mokamoto, Y. Miyazaki, and K. Tsutsuguchi (Japan)
Invited Contribution:
Autonomous Search for Information in an Unknown Environment 47
E. Gelenbe (USA)
Invited Contribution:
Resource Management in Agent-based Distributed Environments.61
A. Brodsky, L. Kerschberg, and S. Varas (USA, Chile)
Information Agents on the Internet - Prototypes, Systems and Applications
A Multi-Agent Architecture for an Intelligent Website in Insurance 86
C.M. Jonker, R.A. Lam, and J. Treur (The Netherlands)
Formation of Cooperative Behavior among Information Agents in Web Repository Change Monitoring Service 101
S. Saeyor and M. Ishizuka (Japan)
GETESS - Searching the Web Exploiting German Texts 113
S. Staab, C. Braun, I. Bruder, A. Dusterhoft, A. Heuer, M. Klettke, G. Neumann, B. Prager, J. Pretzel, H.-P. Schnurr, R. Studer, H. Uszkoreit, and B. Wrenger (Germany)
An Agent-Based System for Intelligent Collaborative Filtering 125
C. O'Riordan and H. Sorensen (Ireland)
Communication and Collaboration
Inter-Agent Communication in Cooperative Information Agent-Based Systems137
H. Gomaa (USA)
Intention Reconciliation in the Context of Teamwork: An Initial Empirical Investigation 149
D.G. Sullivan, A. Glass, B.J. Grosz, and S. Kraus (USA, Israel)
A Similarity Evaluation Technique for Cooperative Problem Solving with a Group of Agents 163
S. Puuronen and V. Terziyan (Finland, Ukraine)
A Computational Model for a Cooperating Agent System 175
S.M. Deen (England)
Mobile Information Agents
Mobile Agents Behaviours: From Declarative Specifications to Implementation 196
C. Hanachi, N. Hameurlain, and C. Sibertin-Blanc (France)
Maintaining Specialized Search Engines through Mobile Filter Agents 208
W. Theilmann and K. Rothermel (Germany)
Execution Monitoring in Adaptive Mobile Agents 220
W. Vieira and L.M. Camarinha-Matos (Portugal)
Mobile-Agent Mediated Place Oriented Communication 232
Y. Kitamura, Y. Mawarimichi, and S. Tatsumi (Japan)
Rational Information Agents for Electronic Business
Invited Contribution (Abstract):
Agents and Electronic Commerce: Mechanisms and Protocols 243
M.P. Wellman (USA)
Invited Contribution:
The Role of Agent Technology in Business to Business Electronic Commerce 245
M.P. Papazoglou (The Netherlands)
An Agency-Based Framework for Electronic Business 265
L. Kerschberg and S. Banerjee (USA)
Secure Agent-Mediated Auctionlike Negotiation Protocol for Internet Retail Commerce 291
X.F. Wang, X. Yi, K.Y. Lam, C.Q. Zhang, and E. Okamoto
(Singapore, Japan, Australia)
Service Mediation and Negotiation
Invited Contribution:
Semantic Information Brokering: How Can a Multi-agent Approach Help? 303
A. Sheth, V. Kashyap, and T. Lima (USA)
Arbitration and Matchmaking for Agents with Con icting Interests 323
T. Tesch and P. Fankhauser (Germany)
Enabling Integrative Negotiations by Adaptive Software Agents 335
W. Benn, O. Grlitz, and R. Neubert (Germany)
Adaptive, Personal Assistance
Invited Contribution:
An Adaptive Conversational Interface for Destination Advice 347
P. Langley, C. Thompson, R. Elio, and A. Haddadi (USA, Germany)
Invited Contribution:
Anticipation, Delegation, and Demonstration:
Why Talking to Agents Is Hard 365
M. Lewis (USA)
A Cooperative Comprehension Assistant for Intranet-Based Information Environments 390
L. van Elst and F. Schmalhofer (Germany)
Author Index 403
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