agent-based information discovery and management on the Internet
First Statement of Responsibility
Matthias Klusch (ed.).
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berlin ; New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1999
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(xxiii, 498 pages) : illustrations
CONTENTS NOTE
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I. Cooperative Information Systems and Agents --;1. From Business Processes to Cooperative Information Systems: An Information Agents Perspective --;2. Social Abstractions for Information Agents --;3. Integration of Information from Multiple Sources of Textual Data --;4. In-Context Information Management through Adaptive Collaboration of Intelligent Agents --;5. A Framework for a Scalable Agent Architecture of Cooperating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources --;II. Rational Information Agents and Electronic Commerce --;6. Agents as Mediators in Electronic Commerce --;7. Auctions and Multi-agent Systems --;8. Strategic Reasoning and Adaptation in an Information Economy --;9. SharedPlans in Electronic Commerce --;10. Dynamic Supply Chain Structuring for Electronic Commerce Among Agents --;III. Adaptive Information Agents --;11. Adaptive Choice of Information Sources --;12. Personal Assistants for the Web: A MIT Perspective --;13. Amalthaea and Histos: MultiAgent Systems for WWW Sites and Reputation Recommendations --;14. Scalable Web Search by Adaptive Online Agents: An InfoSpiders Case Study --;IV. Mobile Information Agents and Security --;15. Mobile Agents for Distributed Information Retrieval --;16. On Coordinating Information Agents and Mobility --;17. Spawning Information Agents on the Web --;18. Mobile Agent Security --;References --;About the Authors --;List of Contributors.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book covers a broad range of intelligent information agents, presenting the latest state-of-the-art research in the field. Focusing on applications of intelligent agents on the World Wide Web, this reference will prove invaluable to professionals involved in this rapidly growing application of artificial intelligence.