Agent-Oriented Information Systems II: 6th International Bi-Conference Workshop, AOIS 2004, Riga, Latvia, June 8, 2004 and New York, NY, USA, July 20, 2004, Revised Selected PapersPaolo Bresciani, Paolo Giorgini, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Graham Low, Michael Winikoff Information systems have become the backbone of all kinds of organizations - day. In almost every sector – manufacturing, education, health care, government and businesses large and small – information systems are relied upon for - eryday work, communication, information gathering and decision-making. Yet, the in?exibilities in current technologies and methods have also resulted in poor performance, incompatibilities and obstacles to change. As many organizations are reinventing themselves to meet the challenges of global competition and e-commerce, there is increasing pressure to develop and deploy new technologies that are ?exible, robust and responsive to rapid and unexpected change. Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of - formation systems. They o?er higher-level abstractions and mechanisms which address issues such as knowledge representation and reasoning, communication, coordination, cooperation among heterogeneous and autonomous parties, p- ception, commitments, goals, beliefs, intentions, etc., all of which need conc- tual modelling. On the one hand, the concrete implementation of these concepts can lead to advanced functionalities, e.g., in inference-based query answering, transaction control, adaptive work ?ows, brokering and integration of disparate information sources, and automated communication processes. On the other hand, their rich representational capabilities allow for more faithful and ?- ible treatments of complex organizational processes, leading to more e?ective requirements analysis and architectural/detailed design. |
Contents
Information Systems | 1 |
A Multiagent Framework for Ubiquitous Information Systems | 19 |
The Analysis of Coordination in an Information System Application | 36 |
Learning Users Interests | 52 |
Analysis and Modeling | 68 |
Analyzing Multiparty Agreements with Commitments | 85 |
Towards Ontological Foundations for Agent Modelling Concepts Using | 110 |
Methodologies | 125 |
Incorporating Elements from the Prometheus AgentOriented | 140 |
A Preliminary Comparative Feature Analysis of Multiagent Systems | 157 |
Agents as Catalysts for Mobile Computing | 182 |
A Systematic Approach for Including Machine Learning in Multiagent | 198 |
Agents to Foster Conscious Design and Reuse in Architecture | 212 |
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Abstract achieve actions activities addition agent agent-oriented analysis application approach architecture called changes commitment communication components Computer concepts constraints construction coordination corresponding cost create defined described diagram domain elements emergent Engineering entity environment evaluation event example execution existing extended Figure formal framework function goal Identifying implementation includes individual Information Systems initial instance Intelligent interaction internal knowledge language learning means mechanism meeting method methodology monitoring multi-agent negotiation objects ontology OPEN organizations participants performance Person plans Play possible preferences present problem produce Prometheus proposed protocol reasoning recommendations relationship represent request response roles rules scheduling selected shows situation specified steps strategy structure task techniques Technology user’s