Information Discovery and Management on the Internet -- Agent Technology from a NASA Perspective -- Digital City Kyoto: Towards a Social Information Infrastructure -- Autonomous Search for Information in an Unknown Environment -- Resource Management in Agent-based Distributed Environments -- Information Agents on the Internet - Prototypes, Systems and Applications -- A Multi-agent Architecture for an Intelligent Website in Insurance -- Formation of Cooperative Behavior among Information Agents in Web Repository Change Monitoring Service -- GETESS—Searching the Web Exploiting German Texts -- An Agent Based System for Intelligent Collaborative Filtering -- Communication and Collaboration -- Inter-Agent Communication in Cooperative Information Agent-Based Systems -- Intention Reconciliation in the Context of Teamwork: An Initial Empirical Investigation -- A Similarity Evaluation Technique for Cooperative Problem Solving with a Group of Agents -- A Computational Model for a Cooperating Agent System -- Mobile Information Agents -- Mobile Agents Behaviours: From Declarative Specifications to Implementation -- Maintaining Specialized Search Engines through Mobile Filter Agents -- Execution Monitoring in Adaptive Mobile Agents -- Mobile-Agent Mediated Place Oriented Communication -- Rational Information Agents for Electronic Business -- Agents and Electronic Commerce: Mechanisms and Protocols (Abstract) -- The Role of Agent Technology in Business to Business Electronic Commerce -- An Agency-Based Framework for Electronic Business -- Secure Agent-Mediated Auctionlike Negotiation Protocol for Internet Retail Commerce -- Service Mediation and Negotiation -- Semantic Information Brokering: How Can a Multi-agent Approach Help? -- Arbitration and Matchmaking for Agents with Conflicting Interests -- Enabling Integrative Negotiations by Adapitve Software Agents -- Adaptive, Personal Assistance -- An Adaptive Conversational Interface for Destination Advice -- Anticipation Delegation, and Demonstration: Why Talking to Agents Is Hard -- A Cooperative Comprehension Assistant for Intranet-Based Information Environments.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Cooperative Information Systems, CIA'99, held in Uppsala, Sweden in July/August 1999. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 46 submissions. Also included are ten invited contributions by leading experts. The volume is divided in sections on information discovery and management on the Internet; information agents on the Internet-prototypes systems and applications; communication and collaboration, mobile information agents; rational information agents for electronic business; service mediation and negotiation; and adaptive personal assistance.