Cooperative Information Agents V

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Personal Assistance: Interaction and Avatars

   1. Interactive Integration of Information Agents on the Web

      • Yasuhiko Kitamura, Teruhiro Yamada, Takashi Kokubo, Yasuhiro Mawarimichi, Taizo Yamamoto, Toru Ishida

      Pages 1-13

   2. Improving Communication in 3D Virtual Environments by Means of Task Delegation in Agents

      • Ricardo Imbert, Angélica de Antonio, Javier Segovia

      Pages 14-19

   3. Wizard of Oz Method for Learning Dialog Agents

      • Masayuki Okamoto, Yeonsoo Yang, Toru Ishida

      Pages 20-25

3. Information Search and Recommendation

   1. Supporting User-Profiled Semantic Web-Oriented Search

      • Luigi Palopoli, Domenico Rosaci, Giorgio Terracina, Domenico Ursino

      Pages 26-31

   2. Recommending a Trip Plan by Negotiation with a Software Travel Agent

      • Von-Wun Soo, Shu-Hau Liang

      Pages 32-37

   3. CoWing: A Collaborative Bookmark Management System

      • Rushed Kanawati, Maria Malek2

      Pages 38-43

   4. Context Aware Agents for Personal Information Services

      • Enric Plaza, Josep-Lluís Arcos

      Pages 44-55

4. Data Warehousing and Mining

   1. Data Warehouse Quality and Agent Technology

      • Matthias Jarke

      Pages 56-75

   2. Decision Trees for Multiple Abstraction Levels of Data

      • Doheon Lee, Mina Jeonga, Yong-Kwan Won

      Pages 76-87

5. Collaborative Information Agents: Systems and Applications

   1. Supporting Information Integration With Autonomous Agents

      • S. Bergamaschi, G. Cabri, F. Guerra, L. Leonardi, M. Vincini, F. Zambonelli

      Pages 88-99

   2. Using Agents in Performing Multi-Site Queries

      • Elisabetta Di Nitto, Carlo Ghezzi, Maurizio Sabba, Paolo Selvini

      Pages 100-105

   3. Extending a Multi-agent System for Genomic Annotation

      • Keith Decker, Salim Khan, Carl Schmidt, Dennis Michaud

      Pages 106-117

   4. Domain-Independent Ontologies for Cooperative Information Agents

      • Mario Gomez, Chema Abasolo, Enric Plaza

      Pages 118-129

6. Trading Internet Agents: Auctions

   1. An Autonomous Bidding Agent for Simultaneous Auctions

      • Nicoletta Fornara, Luca Maria Gambardella

      Pages 130-141

   2. Optimality and Risk in Purchase from Multiple Auctions

      • Onn Shehory

      Pages 142-153

   3. Cryptographic Protocols for Secure Second-Price Auctions

      • Felix Brandt

      Pages 154-165

7. Trading Internet Agents: Strategies, Negotiation, and Design

   1. Equilibria Strategies for Selecting Sellers and Satisfying Buyers

      • Claudia V. Goldman, Sarit Kraus, Onn Shehory

      Pages 166-177

   2. On the Logical Aspects of Argument-Based Negotiation Among Agents

      • Luís Brito, Paulo Novais, José Neves

      Pages 178-189

   3. Introducing a Multi-agent, Multi-criteria Methodology for Modeling Electronic Consumer’s Behavior: The Case of Internet Radio

      • Nikos Manouselis’, Nikos F. Matsatsinis

      Pages 190-195

These are the proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, held in Modena, Italy, September 6-8, 2001. Information agent technology has become one of the major key technologies for the Internet and the World Wide Web. It mainly emerged as a response to the challenges of cyberspace from both the technological and human user perspective. Development of information agents requires expertise from di?erent research disciplines such as Arti?cial Intelligence (AI), advanced databases and knowledge base systems, distributed information systems, information retrieval, and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). The ?fth international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA) continued the tradition by capturing the intrinsic interdisciplinary nature of the above research area by calling for contributions from di?erent research communities, and by promoting open and informative discussions on all related topics. In keeping with tradition, the workshop featured a sequence of regular and invited talks of excellence given by leading experts in the ?eld. This year the topics of the talks are mainly on the challenges of information agents in the upcoming age of ubiquitous and pervasive computing. These challenges are in particular due to the necessity of an e?cient utilization, evolution, and trust management of information agents for user-oriented information search, pro- sion, and visualization in networked computing environments with small, mobile, and embedded devices. A di?erent issue concerns the potential of agent-based support of massive distributed data warehousing worldwide.

• Agent Technology
• Cooperative Information Agents
• Cooperative Information Systems
• Information Agents
• Information Retrieval
• Intelligent Agents
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Web-Based Information Systems
• data mining
• data warehouse

• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany

  Matthias Klusch

• Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

  Franco Zambonelli

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