文档介绍：Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3191
Edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann
Subseries of Lecture Notes puter Science
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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
Springer
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Print ISBN: 3-540-23170-6
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Preface
These are the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Cooperative
Information Agents (CIA 2004), held at the Fair and Congress Center in Er-
furt, Germany, September 27–29, 2004. It was part of the multi-conference
2004, and, in particular, was co-located with the 2nd German
Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies (MATES 2004).
In today’worked world of linked heterogeneous, puter
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 es increasingly important for a variety
of applications. An information agent is putational 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 of its human users, or other agents, preferably just in time. In other
words, it is managing and ing the difficulties associated with information
overload in open, pervasive information and service landscapes. Cooperative in-
form