| Are Information Agents Just an Extension of Information Systems or a New Paradigm? The traditional focus on logic and algebra to describe the semantics of database or knowledge base content needs to be widened to include the semantics of the communication. Cooperative information agents are a first step in the area of agent oriented information systems. | Frank Dignum (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, NL) |
| Workflow agents in the document-centred communication in MALL2000 systems MALL2000 is a poject on business-to-business EC for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). One aim of the project is to provide document-centred support for the business people to contact, negotiate and contract. | Daniela Handl & Hans-Juergen Hoffmann (Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, DE) |
| Intelligent software agents and business-oriented application scenarios | Stefan Kirn (Technische Univ. Ilmenau, DE) |
| Toward Agent-Based Software Engineering for Information Access Applications The ultimate goal is for the metaphor and mechanisms associated with agents to become an integral part of the computing mainstream. | Steven C. Laufmann (US WEST Advanced Technologies, USA) |
| On Agent-Oriented Requirements Engineering The specification of agents in terms of their mental states (beliefs, goals, commitments, etc.) allows modeling at a higher level of abstraction. | Yves Lespérance (York Univ.) & Steven Shapiro (Univ. of Toronto) |
| Agents as a Key Concept for Information Systems Requirements Engineering The paper introduces some work done in the University of Namur that is based on Albert II, a fully formal agent-oriented language targeted at the specification of requirements. | Michaël Petit, Patrick Heymans & Pierre-Yves Schobbens (Univ. of Namur, BE) |
| Librarians We will bring artificial agents and natural agents together that they will work cooperatively to solve problems for which they use a common knowledge base - the library. | Marc Schlüpmann (Univ. GH Essen) |
| Intelligent agents will be a vehicle for other AI-related technologies The greatest potential repercussion that could result from the emergence of intelligent agents in mainstream computing will be the furnishing of a vehicle for other AI-related technologies to also emerge as viable application components. | Steve Schoepke (Fannie Mae, USA) |
| Are Distributed Objects Agents? While agents make the headlines, Corba makes the money, even though Jennings, Sycara, and Wooldridge claim that "objects do it for free; agents do it for money". | Michael Schroeder (City Univ. London, UK) |
| Information Systems Have to Deal with Objects and with Agents We argue that in order to capture more semantics of the dynamic aspects of information systems, such as the events and actions related to the ongoing changes of the state of an information system, it is necessary to distinguish between (business) agents and passive (business) objects. | Gerd Wagner (Univ. Leipzig, DE) |
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