Intelligent Information Agents : Agent-Based Information Discovery and Management on the Internet

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Matthias Klusch covers a broad range of intelligent information agents, presenting the latest state-of-the-art research in the field. Focusing on applications of intelligent agents on the World Wide Web, this reference is targeted at professionals involved in this rapidly growing area of artificial intelligence.

Part I. Cooperative Information Systems and Agents

Introduction

(7)

From Business Processes to Cooperative Information Systems: An Information Agents Perspective

(27)

Michael P. Papazoglou

Willem-Jan van den Heuvel

Introduction

(2)

The Enterprise Framework

(1)

The Business Support Facilities

(14)

The Advanced Middleware Infrastructure

(8)

Concluding Remarks

(2)

Social Abstractions for Information Agents

(16)

Munindar P. Singh

Michael N. Huhns

Introduction

(1)

Key Concepts

(4)

Social Abstractions

(2)

Commitments for Interoperation

(3)

Applications

(4)

Conclusions and Future Work

(2)

Integration of Information from Multiple Sources of Textual Data

(25)

Sonia Bergamaschi

Domenico Beneventano

Introduction

(3)

The TSIMMIS Project

(9)

The MOMIS Project

(11)

Discussion and Final Remarks

(2)

In-Context Information Management through Adaptive Collaboration of Intelligent Agents

(22)

Katia Sycara

Introduction

(2)

Brief Overview of RETSINA

(6)

Automated Information Context Refinement by an Interface Agent

(4)

Learning of Information Retrieval Context

(1)

Explicit Context Representation in Task Schemas

(8)

Conclusion and Future Research

(1)

A Framework for a Scalable Agent Architecture of Cooperating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources

100

(31)

Aris Ouksel

Introduction and Objectives

100

(2)

A Conceptual Framework for SCOPES

102

(5)

Current State of Knowledge in Semantic Interoperability

107

(5)

Semantic Interoperability in SCOPES

112

(9)

Conclusion and Extensions to SCOPES

121

(6)

Part II. Rational Information Agents and Electronic Commerce

Introduction

127

(4)

Agents as Mediators in Electronic Commerce

131

(22)

Robert Guttman

Alexandros Moukas

Pattie Maes

Introduction

131

(1)

Role of Agents as Mediators in Electronic Commerce

132

(10)

Agent Technologies for Electronic Commerce

142

(7)

AmEC at the MIT Media Laboratory

149

(3)

Conclusion and Future Directions

152

(1)

Auctions and Multi-agent Systems

153

(23)

Pablo Noriega

Carles Sierra

Introduction

153

(3)

The Fishmarket

156

(12)

Towards a Formal Model

168

(4)

Institutions

172

(1)

Closing Remarks

173

(3)

Strategic Reasoning and Adaptation in an Information Economy

176

(28)

Edmund H. Durfee

Tracy Mullen

Sunju Park

Jose M. Vidal

Peter Weinstein

Introduction

176

(4)

The Service Market Society

180

(3)

The UMDL Ontology

183

(2)

The UMDL Auctions

185

(1)

Simple Market Scenario - Price Takers

186

(3)

Strategic Agents

189

(4)

Learning Agents

193

(4)

System-Wide Adaptation

197

(5)

Conclusion

202

(2)

SharedPlans in Electronic Commerce

204

(28)

Merav Hadad

Sarit Kraus

Introduction

204

(2)

The SharedPlan Model

206

(6)

The Benefits of Using SharedPlans in Electronic Commerce

212

(5)

The General SharedPlan System

217

(13)

Conclusion

230

(2)

Dynamic Supply Chain Structuring for Electronic Commerce Among Agents

232

(26)

Daniel Dajun Zeng

Katia Sycara

Introduction

232

(3)

The LCT Supply Chain Model

235

(2)

LCT in Inventory Models with Constant Demand Rates

237

(1)

LCT in Periodic Review Stochastic Inventory Model

238

(6)

Computing Inventory Policies with Multiple Leadtime Options

244

(4)

Concluding Remarks

248

(5)

Part III. Adaptive Information Agents

Introduction

253

(5)

Adaptive Choice of Information Sources

258

(21)

Sandip Sen

Anish Biswas

Sumit Ghosh

Introduction

258

(2)

A Categorization of Approaches to Developing Adaptive Information Agents

260

(1)

A State-Based Approach to Load Balancing

261

(9)

A Model-Based Approach to Load Balancing

270

(4)

Learning to Select Information Sources

274

(3)

Observations

277

(2)

Personal Assistants for the Web: A MIT Perspective

279

(14)

Henry Lieberman

Introduction

279

(1)

Intelligent Information Agents Can Break the Knowledge Bottleneck

280

(1)

Intelligent Information Agents and Conventional Information Retrieval

281

(1)

From Information Retrieval to Information Reconnaissance

282

(3)

Information Agents Can Help People Find Common Interests

285

(2)

Information Agents as Matchmakers

287

(2)

Agents for Electronic Commerce

289

(2)

Agents for Visualization of Information Spaces

291

(1)

Information Agents Can Be Controversial

292

(1)

Amalthaea and Histos: MultiAgent Systems for WWW Sites and Reputation Recommendations

293

(30)

Alexandros Moukas

Giorgos Zacharia

Pattie Maes

Introduction

293

(2)

Background and Related Work

295

(4)

Amalthaea

299

(15)

Histos

314

(7)

Conclusion and Future Work

321

(2)

Scalable Web Search by Adaptive Online Agents: An InfoSpiders Case Study

323

(32)

Filippo Menczer

Alvaro E. Monge

Introduction

323

(2)

Search Engines and Agents

325

(2)

Scalability

327

(2)

InfoSpiders

329

(8)

Case Study

337

(3)

Discussion

340

(11)

Part IV. Mobile Information Agents and Security

Introduction

351

(4)

Mobile Agents for Distributed Information Retrieval

355

(41)

Brian Brewington

Robert Gray

Katsuhiro Moizumi

David Kotz

George Cybenko

Daniela Rus

Introduction

355

(2)

Motivation

357

(3)

Survey of Mobile-Agent systems

360

(7)

Application: The Technical-Report Searcher

367

(10)

Planning

377

(17)

Conclusion

394

(2)

On Coordinating Information Agents and Mobility

396

(16)

Robert Tolksdorf

Introduction

396

(1)

Coordination and Mobility in Information Systems

396

(4)

Software Engineering for Multi Agent Systems

400

(3)

A Coordination Language for Mobility

403

(3)

Simple Coordination Patterns

406

(5)

Related Work and Conclusion

411

(1)

Spawning Information Agents on the Web

412

(19)

Onn Shehory

Introduction

412

(3)

Why Is Spawning Necessary?

415

(3)

Requirements for Spawning

418

(2)

The Algorithm

420

(4)

Simulation: The Cloning Case

424

(3)

Spawning: Information Requirements Analysis

427

(1)

Related Work

428

(2)

Conclusion

430

(1)

Mobile Agent Security

431

(16)

Christian F. Tschudin

Motivation

431

(1)

Is Code Mobility Dangerous?

431

(2)

Protecting the Host

433

(1)

Run--Time Checks and How To Avoid (Some of) Them

434

(1)

Authentication, Authorization, Allocation

434

(2)

Protecting the Mobile Agents

436

(1)

Detecting Agent Tampering

437

(2)

Preventing Agent Tampering

439

(4)

Secure or Open, Is This the Question?

443

(1)

Outlook

444

(3)

References

447

(38)

About the Authors

485

(10)

List of Contributors

495

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