Intelligent Agents in Cyberspace
Papers from 1999 AAAI Spring Symposium
San Murugesan and Sydney Macarthur and Daniel E. O'Leary, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-99-03 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
Contents
Preface / v
San Murugesan and Sydney Macarthur and Daniel E. O'Leary
Contributed Papers
Knowledge Management: Forming an Internet Company
/ 1
Daniel E. O'Leary, University of Southern California, USA
Is Agent-based Online Search Feasible? / 1
Filippo Menczer
Agents for Expertise Location / 9
Adriana S. Vivacqua
Searching the Web via Mobile Agents / 14
Corrado Priami, Matteo Lonardi and Stefano Martini
Case-Based BDI Agents: An Effective Approach For Intelligent Search On the World Wide Web / 20
Cindy Olivia, Chee-Fon Chang, Carlos F. Enguix, and Aditya K. Ghose
Building Domain-Specific Search Engines with Machine Learning Techniques / 28
Andrew McCallum, Kamal Nigam, Jason Rennie, Kristie Seymore
Adaptive Agents for Information Gathering from Multiple, Distributed Information Sources / 40
Yizhong Fan and Susan Gauch
Learning Page-Independent Heuristics for Extracting Data from Web Pages / 47
William Cohen and Wei Fan
Alipes: A Swift Messenger in Cyberspace / 58
Dwi H. Widyantoro, Jianwen Yin, Magy Self El Nasr, Linyu Yang, Anna Zacchi, and John Yen
An Architecture for Automated Information Retrieval / 68
Hans-Giinter Stein and Michael Breu
Information Presentation
Adaptive Agent-based Systems for the Web: An Application to the NECTAR Project / 75
Bruno Errico and Igor Jurisica
Agents in Delivering Personalized Content-Based Semantic Metadata / 84
Teppo Kurki, Sami Jokela, and Reijo Sulonen
Agent Model on Information Kiosk Systems Supporting Mobile Users / 94
Yasuhiko Miyazaki, Kenji Fujimoto, Kazuhiro Sugiyama
Cyberagent Technologies
Constituencies for Users: How to Develop them by Interpreting Logs of Web Site Access / 104
Michael J. Wright
Diverse Web Ontologies: What Intelligent Agents Must Teach to Each Other / 115
Andrew B. Williams and Costas Tsatsoulis
Finding and Moving Constraints in Cyberspace / 121
P. M. D. Gray, K. Hui, and A. D. Preece
MAGE: Multi-Agent Graphical Environment / 128
Leen-Kiat Soh, Htiseyin Sevay, and Costas Tsatsoulis
Team Work and Virtual Environments
Team Work in Cyberspace: Using TEAMCORE to Make Agents Team-Ready / 136
Milind Tambe, Wei-Min Shen, Maja Mataric, David V. Pynadath, Dani Goldberg, Pragnesh Jay Modi, Zhun Qiu, and Behnam Salemi
Virtual Environments: An Agent-Based Approach / 145
Jeffrey Coble and Diane J. Cook
Matchmaking Among Heterogeneous Agents on the Internet / 152
Katia Sycara, Matthias Klusch, Seth Widoff, and Jianguo Lu
Framework for an Agent-based Electronic Market Place: Design and Implementation / 164
S. W. T. John and C.H. Chi
Evolutionary Agent Societies Applied to Knowledge Discovery and Predictive Data Mining / 174
Steve G. Romaniuk
Knowledge Engineering with Software Agents / 186
Louise Crow and Nigel Shadbolt
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