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These are the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2007), held at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, September 19–21, 2007. Intoday’sworldofubiquitouslyconnectedheterogeneousinformationsys
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Matthias Klusch Koen Hindriks Mike P. Papazoglou Leon Sterling (Eds.)
Cooperative Information Agents XI 11th International Workshop, CIA 2007 Delft, The Netherlands, September 19-21, 2007 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, 66121 Saarbruecken, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Koen Hindriks TU Delft, ICT, Man-Machine-Interaction Delft, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Mike P. Papazoglou Tilburg University, INFOLAB PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Leon Sterling The University of Melbourne 442 Auburn Road, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia E-mail: [email protected]
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CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, H.4, H.3.3, H.2.8, C.2.4, H.5 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-75118-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-75118-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
These are the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2007), held at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, September 19–21, 2007. In today’s world of ubiquitously connected heterogeneous information systems and computing devices, the intelligent coordination and provision of relevant added-value information at any time, anywhere is of key importance to a variety of applications. This challenge is envisioned to be coped with by means of appropriate intelligent and cooperative information agents. 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 is managing and overcoming the difficulties associated with information overload in open, pervas
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