Agent-Oriented Information Systems: 5th International Bi-Conference Workshop, AOIS 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003 and Chicago, IL, USA, October 13th, 2003, Revised Selected Papers / Edition 1

by Paolo Giorgini, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Michael Winikoff

Overview

This proceedings volume of the 5th AOISW orkshop is an opportunity for looking back at five years of organizing AOIS workshops. What did we achieve with the AOIS workshop series? Where were we five years ago, where are we now? Did our the me impact on the information systems field in the way that we had hoped for? AOIS workshops have taken place in Seattle, Heidelberg, Skholm, Austin, Montr´ eal, Interlaken, Toronto, Bologna, Melbourne, and Chicago, always in c- junction with a major conference on either multiagent systems in artificial - telligence (AI/MAS) or information systems (IS). We have tried to innovate in holding these workshops as biconference events (each year AOIS held two wo- shop events, one at an AI/MAS conference and one at an IS conference), as well as using the AOIS web site as a medium for communication among researchers. So, certainly, we have reached a wide audience of researchers around the world from both the AI/MAS and IS communities. But did we also manage to build up a dedicated AOIS community? Five years ago, we wrote: “Agent concepts could fundamentally alter the nature of information systems of the future, and how we build them, much like structured analysis, ER modeling, and Object-Orientation has precipitated fundamental changes in IS practice. ” Of course, a period of five years is too short for evaluating the success or failure of a new scientific paradigm. But still we may observe that while most IS conferences meanwhile list agents as one of their many preferred topics, agent-orientation is generally not considered to be a fundamental IS paradigm.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540221272
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	07/12/2004
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #3030
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Information Systems and Applications.- Design of a MAS into a Human Organization: Application to an Information Multi-agent System.- I-MINDS: An Agent-Oriented Information System for Applications in Education.- Trustworthy Service Caching: Cooperative Search in P2P Information Systems.- Agent-Based Support for Mobile Users Using AgentSpeak(L).- Market-Based Recommendations: Design, Simulation and Evaluation.- Methodologies.- Comparing Agent-Oriented Methodologies.- A Framework for Evaluating Agent-Oriented Methodologies.- Towards Reuse in Agent Oriented Information Systems: The Importance of Being Purposive.- Towards a More Expressive and Refinable Multiagent System Engineering Methodology.- Modelling, Analysis and Simulation.- A Pattern Language for Motivating the Use of Agents.- A Practical Agent-Based Approach to Requirements Engineering for Socio-technical Systems.- AOR Modelling and Simulation: Towards a General Architecture for Agent-Based Discrete Event Simulation.- Modelling Institutional, Communicative and Physical Domains in Agent Oriented Information Systems.