Agent-Oriented Information Systems III 7th International Bi-Conf
Information systems underpin today’s business and entertainment. The means by which these information systems have been developed has changed over the years. Although the current paradigm is to use object-oriented concepts, a new set of concepts, focussed
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Manuel Kolp Paolo Bresciani Brian Henderson-Sellers Michael Winikoff (Eds.)
Agent-Oriented Information Systems III 7th International Bi-Conference Workshop, AOIS 2005 Utrecht, Netherlands, July 26, 2005 and Klagenfurt, Austria, October 27, 2005 Revised Selected Papers
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Manuel Kolp Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) School of Management (IAG), Information Systems Research Unit (ISYS) 1, Place des Doyens, 1348 Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium E-mail: [email protected] Paolo Bresciani European Commission DG Information Society and Media, Unit D3: Software Technologies Avenue de Beaulieu 29, level 4, office 49, 1049 Brussels, Belgium E-mail: [email protected] Brian Henderson-Sellers University of Technology, Sydney Faculty of Information Technology P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Michael Winikoff RMIT University School of Computer Science and Information Technology Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2006936083 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, H.4, H.3, H.5.2-3, C.2.4, I.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
Information systems underpin today’s business and entertainment. The means by which these information systems have been developed has changed over the years. Although the current paradigm is to use object-oriented concepts, a new set of concepts, focussed on agent technology, is starting to be evaluated. Agents offer higher level abstractions (than objects) for the conceptualization, design and implementation of information systems. Agents have autonomy, can reason and can coordinate within societies of agents. The AOIS series of workshops explores the potential for facilitating the increased usage of agent technology in the creation of information systems in the widest sens
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