Cooperative Information Agents

First International Workshop, CIA'97, Kiel, Germany, February 26-28, 1997, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents - DAI Meets Databases, CIA-97, held in Kiel, Germany, in February 1997. The book opens with 6 invited full papers by internationally leading researchers surveying the state of the art in the area. The 16 revised full research papers presented were carefully selected during a highly competitive round of reviewing. The papers are organized in topical sections on databases and agent technology, agents for database search and knowledge discovery, communication and cooperation among information agents, and agent-based access to heterogeneous information sources.

This means (1) to develop many kinds of knowledge discovery and data mining
agents (KDD agents in short) for different objects; (2) to use the KDD agents in
multiple learning phases in a distributed cooperative mode; (3) to manage the
society of the KDD agents by multiple meta-control levels. Based on this
methodology, a multi-strategy and cooperative discovery system, which can be
imagined as a softbot and is named GLS (Global Learning Scheme), has being
developing by us.