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

✍ Scribed by Matthias Klusch (auth.), Matthias Klusch (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 513
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Agent technology has recently become one of the most vibrant and fastest growing areas in information technology. Within this booming area, intelligent information agents are attracting particular attention from the research and development community as well as from industry and user communities interested in everyday private and professional applications. This monographic text is the first systematic state-of-the-art survey on intelligent information agents. Eighteen coherently written chapters by leading authorities provide complementary coverage of the relevant issues organized in four parts: cooperative information systems and agents; rational information agents and electronic commerce; adaptive information agents; mobile agents and security. In addition, the volume editor has provided a detailed introductory survey chapter, motivational introductions to the four parts, and a comprehensive bibliography listing more than 700 entries.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-9
From Business Processes to Cooperative Information Systems: An Information Agents Perspective....Pages 10-36
Social Abstractions for Information Agents....Pages 37-52
Integration of Information from Multiple Sources of Textual Data....Pages 53-77
In-Context Information Management through Adaptive Collaboration of Intelligent Agents....Pages 78-99
A Framework for a Scalable Agent Architecture of Cooperating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources....Pages 100-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Introduction....Pages 127-130
Agents as Mediators in Electronic Commerce....Pages 131-152
Auctions and Multi-agent Systems....Pages 153-175
Strategic Reasoning and Adaptation in an Information Economy....Pages 176-203
SharedPlans in Electronic Commerce....Pages 204-231
Dynamic Supply Chain Structuring for Electronic Commerce among Agents....Pages 232-249
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Introduction....Pages 253-257
Adaptive Choice of Information Sources....Pages 258-278
Personal Assistants for the Web: An MIT Perspective....Pages 279-292
Amalthaea and Histos: MultiAgent Systems for WWW Sites and Reputation Recommendations....Pages 293-322
Scalable Web Search by Adaptive Online Agents: An InfoSpiders Case Study....Pages 323-347
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
Introduction....Pages 351-354
Mobile Agents for Distributed Information Retrieval....Pages 355-395
On Coordinating Information Agents and Mobility....Pages 396-411
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
Spawning Information Agents on the Web....Pages 412-430
Mobile Agent Security....Pages 431-445
Back Matter....Pages 447-498

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval; Multimedia Information Systems; Business Information Systems