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Cooperation Between Intelligent Information Agents

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Cooperative Information Agents V (CIA 2001)

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This paper describes an approach to ontology negotiation between agents supporting intelligent information management. Our objective is to increase the opportunities for “strange agents to communicate in solving tasks when they encounter each other on the web.

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Bailin, S.C., Truszkowski, W. (2001). Cooperation Between Intelligent Information Agents. In: Klusch, M., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents V. CIA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44799-7_24

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