AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS by Paolo Bresciani (Editor), Paolo Giorgini (Editor), Brian Henderson-Sellers (Editor) ( 9783540259114 )

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Title:

AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS
6TH INTERNATIONAL BI-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP, AOIS 2004, RIGA, LATVIA, JUNE 8, 2004 AND NEW YORK, NY, USA, JULY 20, 2004, REVISED SELECTED PAPERS

Volume:

v. 2

By:

Paolo Bresciani (Editor), Paolo Giorgini (Editor), Brian Henderson-Sellers (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

3540259112

ISBN 13:

9783540259114

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG

Pub. date:

12 May, 2005

Series:

Lecture Notes in Computer Science v.3508

Pages:

230

Description:

Constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems, AOIS 2004, held in Riga, Latvia in June and in New York, NY, USA in July 2004. This title contains papers organized in topical sections on information systems, analysis and modeling, methodologies, and applications.

Synopsis:

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.

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biography

Publication:

Germany

Imprint:

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K

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