Cooperative Information Agents III Third International Workshop, CIA'99 Uppsala, Sweden, July 31 - August 2, 1999 Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Cooperative Information Systems, CIA'99, held in Uppsala, Sweden in July/August 1999.
The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 46 submissions. Also included are ten invited contributions by leading experts. The volume is divided in sections on information discovery and management on the Internet; information agents on the Internet-prototypes systems and applications; communication and collaboration, mobile information agents; rational information agents for electronic business; service mediation and negotiation; and adaptive personal assistance.

Information Discovery and Management on the Internet.- Agent Technology from a NASA Perspective.- Digital City Kyoto: Towards a Social Information Infrastructure.- Autonomous Search for Information in an Unknown Environment.- Resource Management in Agent-based Distributed Environments.- Information Agents on the Internet - Prototypes, Systems and Applications.- A Multi-agent Architecture for an Intelligent Website in Insurance.- Formation of Cooperative Behavior among Information Agents in Web Repository Change Monitoring Service.- GETESS—Searching the Web Exploiting German Texts.- An Agent Based System for Intelligent Collaborative Filtering.- Communication and Collaboration.- Inter-Agent Communication in Cooperative Information Agent-Based Systems.- Intention Reconciliation in the Context of Teamwork: An Initial Empirical Investigation.- A Similarity Evaluation Technique for Cooperative Problem Solving with a Group of Agents.- A Computational Model for a Cooperating Agent System.- Mobile Information Agents.- Mobile Agents Behaviours: From Declarative Specifications to Implementation.- Maintaining Specialized Search Engines through Mobile Filter Agents.- Execution Monitoring in Adaptive Mobile Agents.- Mobile-Agent Mediated Place Oriented Communication.- Rational Information Agents for Electronic Business.- Agents and Electronic Commerce: Mechanisms and Protocols (Abstract).- The Role of Agent Technology in Business to Business Electronic Commerce.- An Agency-Based Framework for Electronic Business.- Secure Agent-Mediated Auctionlike Negotiation Protocol for Internet Retail Commerce.- Service Mediation and Negotiation.- Semantic Information Brokering: How Can a Multi-agent Approach Help?.- Arbitration and Matchmaking for Agents with Conflicting Interests.- Enabling Integrative Negotiations by Adapitve Software Agents.- Adaptive, Personal Assistance.- An Adaptive Conversational Interface for Destination Advice.- Anticipation Delegation, and Demonstration: Why Talking to Agents Is Hard.- A Cooperative Comprehension Assistant for Intranet-Based Information Environments.