Agent Foundations for Cooperative Information Systems
Michael N. Huhns · 2007
Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) is a research area that has emerged from the synthesis of databases and artificial intelligence. It can succinctly be defined as the study of multiagent systems and organizational and database abstractions geared toward the large, open, heterogeneous information environments of today. This short paper describes how CIS architectures have evolved a set of common types of computational agents. 1. Introduction Due to the proliferation of networking, the desires of most everyone to be interconnected, and the needs to make data accessible any time and any place, modern information environments have become large, open, and heterogeneous. They are composed of distributed, largely autonomous, often legacy-based components. In cooperative information systems, software agents are introduced into such environments to deal with these characteristics. The agents represent the components in interactions, where they mediate differences and provide a syntacticall...