| Cooperative Information Agents IV - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace: 4th International Workshop, CIA 2000 Boston, Ma, Usa, July 7-9, 20 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Klusch, Matthias (Editor), Kerschberg, Larry (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540677038 ISBN-13: 9783540677031 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2000 Annotation: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 2000, held in Boston, MA, USA, in July 2000, in association with ICMAS 2000. The 15 revised full papers presented together with seven invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The book is divided into sections on personal information agents on the Internet, agent-based information gathering and mediation, rational information agents for e-commerce, societies of information agents, communication and collaboration, and future inspirations and design. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical - Computers | Databases - General - Computers | System Administration - Storage & Retrieval |
| Dewey: 006.33 |
| LCCN: 00044680 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.94 lbs) 282 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
