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this page we display an overview of the literature we have selected so far. You can find: * Books * Papers * Relevant Links Books: * Klusch, M.(DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany) Ed. Intelligent Information Agents 2000. Hardcover. See Table of Contents * Omicini, A.(Universita' di Bologna, Italy) Zambonelli, F. (Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy) Klusch, M.(DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany) Tolksdorf, R. (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) Eds. Coordination of Internet Agents Models, Technologies, and Applications 2001. XXVII, 523 pp. 89 figs., 16 tabs. Hardcover 3-540-41613-7. Recommended Retail Price: DM 91,90 * Subrahmanian,VS.,Bonatti,P., Dix,J.,Eiter,T., Kraus,S., Ozcan,F., Ross,R. Heterogeneous Agent Systems Draft Version Papers: First approach: * Franklin,S.,Graesser,A. Is it an Agent, or just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents * Wong,H., Sycara,K. A Taxonomy of Middle-agents for the Internet In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'2000) [extended version] Agent-oriented Software Engineering: * Agent UML + B. Bauer, UML Class Diagrams revisited in the context of agent-based systems. In M. Wooldridge, P. Ciancarini, and G. Weiss, editors, Proceedings of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE 01), number 2222 in LNCS, pages 1-8 , Montreal ,Canada, May 2001, Springer-Verlag + B. Bauer, J. P. Müller, J. Odell, Agent UML: A Formalism for Specifying Multiagent Interaction, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Paolo Ciancarini and Michael Wooldridge eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 91-103, 2001. + M-P. Hughet, Agent UML Class Diagrams Revisited. In Proceedings of Agent Technology and Software Engineering (AgeS). Bernhard Bauer, Klaus Fischer, Jorg Mueller and Bernhard Rumpe (eds), Erfurt, Germany, October 2002 + M.-P. Huget. Extending Agent UML Protocol Diagrams. Technical Report ULCS02-014, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, 2002 * The GAIA Methodology + M. Wooldridge, N. R. Jennings and D. Kinny, The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design, International Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 3(3):285-312, 2000 * The Tropos Methodology + F. Giunchiglia, J. Mylopoulos and A. Perini, The Tropos Software Development Methodology: Processes, Models and Diagrams. Technical Report DIT-02-008, Informatica e Telecomunicazioni, Università degli Studi di Trento, 2001 Information Agent Technology: * Klusch, M. Information Agent Technology for the Internet: A Survey Journal on Data and Knowledge Engineering, Special Issue on Intelligent Information Integration, D. Fensel (Ed.), Vol. 36(3), Elsevier Science, 2001 * Klusch, M.(DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany) Ed. Special Issue on Intelligent Information Agents: Theory and Applications, Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems, vol. 10(1&2), Marhc 2001 Advanced MAS: * Paolucci, M., Shehory, O., Sycara, K., Kalp, D. and Pannu, A. A Planning Component for RETSINA Agents Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents VI. M. Wooldridge and Y. Lesperance (Eds.), forthcoming * Shehory, O., Sycara, K. The Retsina Communicator In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents 2000, Poster Session * Sycara, K., Paolucci, M., van Velsen, M. and Giampapa, J. The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure Submitted to JAAMS * The Impact project (UMBC) Key issues: * Chalasani, P., Jha, S., Shehory, O. and Sycara, K. Query Restart Strategies for Web Agents In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents, 1998. pp. 124-131, Minneapolis, MN, May 1998 * Franklin,S. Coordination without Communication * Giampapa, J. A. Sycara, K. Conversational Case-Based Planning for Agent Team Coordination To appear in the Fourth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-2001), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 30 July - 2 August 2001 * Giampapa,J.A., Juarez-Espinosa,O. and Sycara,K. Configuration Management for Multi-Agent Systems The 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001), Association for Computing Machinery, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY, 10036, USA, June, 2001, pp. 230-231 * Klusch, M. Agent-Mediated Trading: Intelligent Agents and E-Business In A.L.G. Hayzelden, R. Bourne (eds.): Agent Technology applied to Networked Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 2000 * Klusch, M. Information Agents for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining on the Internet In U. Kuesters, K.D. Wilde (Eds.),Data Mining im Marketing - Knowledge Discovery in Databases Chapter 10.2, Vieweg/Gabler Verlag (in German), 2000 * Paolucci, M. and Sycara, K. An Exploration in MAS Scalability Submitted to IJCAI * Payne,T.R, Paolucci,M., Singh,R. and Sycara,K. Communicating Agents in Open Multi Agent Systems Forthcoming in Proceedings of First NASA Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC), 2001 * Sycara,K., Lu,J., Klusch,M. and Widoff,S. Matchmaking Among Heterogeneous Agents on the Internet Proceedings AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Agents in Cyberspace, Stanford, USA, 1999 * Sycara, K., Klusch, M., Widoff, S. and Lu, J. Dynamic Service Matchmaking Among Agents in Open Information Environments In Journal ACM SIGMOD Record (Special Issue on Semantic Interoperability in Global Information Systems), A. Ouksel, A. Sheth (Eds.), Vol. 28, No. 1, March 1999, pp. 47-53 * Klusch, M., Sycara, K. Brokering and Matchmaking for Coordination of Agent Societies: A Survey In Coordination of Internet Agents, A. Omicini et al. (eds.), Springer., 2001 * The DAML Services Coalition: Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, David L. Martin, Sheila A. McIlraith, Srini Narayanan$, Massimo Paolucci, Terry Payne, Katia Sycara, Honglei Zeng DAML-S: Semantic Markup For Web Services In Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Workshop, 2001 * Wong, H. C., and Sycara, K. Adding Security and Trust to Multi-Agent Systems In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents '99 (Workshop on Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies). May 1999, Seattle, Washington, pp. 149-161 Relevant Links: * Virtual Library (absolutely amazing, everything's there!!!) * AgentLink Maintained by iia@dbgroup.unimo.it Web Site Last updated on 05/01/2002