Cooperative Information Agents IV - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace

1. Front Matter

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2. Personal Information Agents on the Internet

   1. Adding Life-Like Synthetic Characters to the Web

      • Elisabeth André, Thomas Rist

      Pages 1-13

   2. Affective Computing for Future Agents

      • Rosalind W. Picard

      Pages 14-14

3. Agent-Based Information Gathering and Mediation

   1. Knowledge Agents on the Web

      • Yariv Aridor, David Carmel, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer, Yoelle S. Maarek

      Pages 15-26

   2. ICEBERG: Exploiting Context in Information Brokering Agents

      • Catholijn M. Jonker, Arjen Vollebregt

      Pages 27-38

   3. A Dynamic Access Planning Method for Information Mediator

      • Yasuhiko Kitamura, Tomoya Noda, Shoji Tatsumi

      Pages 39-50

   4. What Is Query Rewriting?

      • Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Lenzerini, Moshe Y. Vardi

      Pages 51-59

   5. Applying Agents to Bioinformatics in GeneWeaver

      • K. Bryson, M. Luck, M. Joy, D. T. Jones

      Pages 60-71

4. Rational Information Agents for E-Commerce

   1. Economic Incentives for Information Agents

      • Jeffrey O. Kephart

      Pages 72-82

   2. Auctio-Based Agent Negotiation via Programmable Tuple Spaces

      • Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli

      Pages 83-94

   3. Task Assignment in Multiagent Systems Based on Vickrey-Type Auctioning and Leveled Commitment Contracting

      • Felix Brandt, Wilfried Brauer, Gerhard Weiß

      Pages 95-106

   4. Bilateral Negotiation with Incomplete and Uncertain Information: A Decision-Theoretic Approach Using a Model of the Opponent

      • Chhaya Mudgal, Julita Vassileva

      Pages 107-118

   5. On Ensuring Lower Bounds of Negotiation Results

      • Otmar Görlitz, Ralf Neubert, Wolfgang Benn

      Pages 119-130

   6. Towards an Experience Based Negotiation Agent

      • Wai Yat Wong, Dong Mei Zhang, Mustapha Kara-Ali

      Pages 131-142

5. Societies of Information Agents

   1. Emergen Societies of Information Agents

      • Paul Davidsson

      Pages 143-153

   2. A Social Mechanism of Reputation Management in Electronic Communities

      • Bin Yu, Munindar P. Singh

      Pages 154-165

   3. A Cybernetic Approach to the Modeling of Agent Communities

      • Walt Truszkowski, Jay Karlin

      Pages 166-178

   4. Role of Acquaintance Models in Agent-Based Production Planning System

      • Michael Pečhoǔcek, Vladimir Mařík, Olga Štěpánková

      Pages 179-190

6. Issues of Communication and Collaboration

   1. Agent Communication and Cooperative Information Agents

      • Frank Dignum

      Pages 191-207

   2. Towards Information Agent Interoperability

      • Stefan Haustein, Sascha Lüdecke

      Pages 208-218

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 forplanning 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.

• Agent Collaboration
• Agent Communication
• Agent-Based Negotiation
• E-Commerce
• Electronic Commerce
• Information Agents
• Intelligent Information Systems
• Internet
• Internet-Based Information Systems
• Personal Information Agents

• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbruecken, Germany

  Matthias Klusch

• E-Center for E-Business and Department of Computer Science Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

  Larry Kerschberg

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