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Matthias Klusch Michael Rovatsos Terry R. Payne (Eds.)
Cooperative Information Agents X 10th International Workshop, CIA 2006 Edinburgh, UK, September 11-13, 2006 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 Artificial Intelligence Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Michael Rovatsos The University of Edingburgh School of Informatics Appleton Tower 3.12, Edinburgh, UK E-mail: [email protected] Terry R. Payne University of Southampton Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006931573
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, H.4, H.3.3, H.2, C.2.4, H.5 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-38569-X Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-38569-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
These are the proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2006), held at the National eScience Centre, Edinburgh, UK, September 11–13, 2006. This year, the annual meeting of the IEEE Computer Society Standards Organisation Committee FIPA on Intelligent and Physical Agents was co-located with CIA 2006. In today’s networked world of linked, heterogeneous, pervasive computer systems, devices, and information landscapes, 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 pro-actively searches for and maintains information on behalf of its human users or other agents preferably just in time. In other words, it manages and overcomes the difficulties associated with information overload in open, pervasive information and service landscapes. Cooperative info
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