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COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS IV - THE FUTURE OF INFORMATION AGENTS IN CYBERSPACE
4TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP, CIA 2000, BOSTON, MA, USA, JULY 7-9, 2000 PROCEEDINGS |
| By: |
Matthias Klusch (Editor), Larry Kerschberg (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
3540677038 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783540677031 |
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SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG |
| Pub. date: |
21 June, 2000 |
| Series: |
Lecture Notes in Computer Science v. 1860 |
| Pages: |
282 |
| Description: |
These are the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 2000, held in Boston, USA, in July 2000, in association with ICMAS 2000. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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Germany |
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K |
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