Cooperative Information Agents VIII 8th International Workshop,
These are the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2004), held at the Fair and Congress Center in - furt, Germany, September 27–29, 2004. It was part of the multi-conference Net. ObjectDays 2004, and, in par
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Matthias Klusch Sascha Ossowski Vipul Kashyap Rainer Unland (Eds.)
Cooperative Information Agents VIII 8th International Workshop, CIA 2004 Erfurt, Germany, September 27-29, 2004 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Matthias Klusch German Research Center for Artifical Intelligence, Deduction and Multiagent Systems Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Sascha Ossowski University Rey Juan Carlos, School of Engineering (ESCET) Campus de Mostoles, Calle Tulipan s/n, 28933 Madrid, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Vipul Kashyap Lister Hill National Center on Biomedical Communications 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda MD 20894, USA E-mail: [email protected] Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems Schützenbahn 70, 45117 Essen, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
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CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, H.4, H.3.3, H.2, C.2.4, H.5 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-23170-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11323815 06/3142 543210
Preface
These are the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2004), held at the Fair and Congress Center in Erfurt, Germany, September 27–29, 2004. It was part of the multi-conference Net.ObjectDays 2004, and, in particular, was co-located with the 2nd German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies (MATES 2004). In today’s networked world of linked heterogeneous, pervasive computer systems, devices, and information landscapes, the intelligent coordination and provision of relevant added-value information at any time, anywhere, by means of cooperative information agents becomes increasingly important for a variety of applications. An information agent is a computational software entity that has access to one or multiple, heterogeneous, and geographically dispersed data and information sources. It proactively searches for and maintains information on behalf o
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