Web Intelligence and Agent Systems

 

Volume 9, Number 4, 2011

 

Contents

 

 

Salvatore Garruzzo, Giovanni Quattrone, Domenico Rosaci and Domenico Ursino

 

Improving agent interoperability via the automatic enrichment of multi-category ontologies

291-318

 

Koen Hindriks, Catholijn M. Jonker and Dmytro Tykhonov

 

Let's dans! An analytic framework of negotiation dynamics and strategies

319-335

 

Claudio Carpineto, Massimiliano D'Amico and Andrea Bernardini

 

Full discrimination of subtopics in search results with keyphrase-based clustering

337-349

 

Hyunja Leea and Junho Shimb

 

Indexing method for transitive relationships of product information

351-362

 

Henrique Lopes Cardoso and Eugénio Oliveira

 

Social control in a normative framework: An adaptive deterrence approach

363-375

 

H.C. Lim, Rob Stocker, Michael Barlow and Henry Larkin

 

Interplay of ethical trust and social moral norms: Environment modelling and computational mechanisms in agent-based social simulation (ABSS)

377-391

Acknowledgement

393

 

 

Volume 9, Number 3, 2011

 

Contents

 

 

Michele Ruta, Eugenio Di Sciascio and Floriano Scioscia

 

Concept abduction and contraction in semantic-based P2P environments

179-207

 

Guillaume Piolle and Yves Demazeau

 

Representing privacy regulations with deontico-temporal operators

209-226

 

Zhiqi Shen, Han Yu, Chunyan Miao and Jianshu Weng

 

Trust-based web service selection in virtual communities

227-238

 

Guandong Xu, Lin Li, Yanchun Zhang, Xun Yi and Masaru Kitsuregawa

 

Modeling user hidden navigational behavior for Web recommendation

239-255

 

Luciana Rech, Carlos Montez and Rômulo S. de Oliveira

 

An adaptive approach for the determination of the itinerary of imprecise mobile agents with timing constraints

257-268

 

Stephan Schosser, Klemens Böhm and Bodo Vogt

 

A study of the impact of structure on cooperation in networks

269-288

 

 

Volume 9, Number 2, 2011

 

Contents

 

 

Gaurav Singh and Rene Weiskircher

 

A multi-agent system for decentralised fractional shared resource constraint scheduling

99-108

Shuya Abe, Kentaro Inui, Kazuo Hara, Hiraku Morita, Chitose Sao, Megumi Eguchi, Asuka Sumita, Koji Murakami and Suguru Matsuyoshi

 

Mining personal experiences and opinions from Web documents

109-121

 

Antonín Komenda, Jiří Vokřínek and Michal Pěchouček

 

Plan representation and execution in multi-actor scenarios by means of social commitments

123-133

 

Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Mariachiara Puviani and Raffaele Quitadamo

 

Comparing Service-Oriented Computing and Agent-Oriented Programming towards integration

135-146

 

Tibor Bosse, Charlotte Gerritsen, Mark Hoogendoorn, S. Waqar Jaffry and Jan Treur

 

Agent-based vs. population-based simulation of displacement of crime: A comparative study

147-160

Akiko Takahashi and Tetsuo Kinoshita

 

Configuration and control design model for an agent based Flexible Distributed System

161-178

 

Volume 9, Number 1, 2011

 

Contents

 

 

 

Freddy Lécué, Alexandre Delteil and Alain Léger

 

sslGolog: When conditional compositions of web services meet semantic links and causal laws

 1-25

 

 

Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng

 

SimPaD: A word-similarity sentence-based plagiarism detection tool on Web documents

27-41

 

 

Julien Ah-Pine

 

On data fusion in information retrieval using different aggregation operators

 43-55

 

 

Tibor Bosse and Frank P.J. de Lange

 

On virtual agents that regulate each other's emotions

57-67

 

 

Maurice Grinberg

 

A cognitive approach to web-based intelligent agents: The TRIPLE architecture

 69-79

 

 

Jan Treur

 

On the use of reduction relations to relate different types of agent models

81-95

 

 

 

 

Volume 8, Number 4, 2010

 

Contents

 

 

 

Yuko Sakurai, Atsushi Iwasaki and Makoto Yokoo

 

Keyword auction protocol for dynamically adjusting the number of advertisements

331-341

 

 

Georgios K. Giannikis and Aspassia Daskalopulu

 

Assumption-based reasoning in dynamic normative agent systems

343-362

 

 

Inés Arana, Hatem Ahriz and Muhammed Basharu

 

Solving coarse-grained DisCSPs with local search

363-376

 

 

Mostafa Al Masum Shaikh, Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka

 

Emotion Sensitive News Agent (ESNA): A system for user centric emotion sensing from the news

377-396

 

 

Z.M. Ma, Fu Zhang, Li Yan and Yanhui Lv

 

Formal semantics-preserving translation from fuzzy ER model to fuzzy OWL DL ontology

397-412

 

 

Fedja Hadzic, Henry Tan and Tharam S. Dillon

 

Model guided algorithm for mining unordered embedded subtrees

413-430

 

 

Acknowledgement

431

 

 

 

 

Volume 8, Number 3, 2010

 

Contents

 

 

 

Xiaohui Tao, Yuefeng Li and Ning Zhong

 

A knowledge-based model using ontologies for personalized web information gathering

235-254

 

 

Toshiharu Sugawara, Kensuke Fukuda, Toshio Hirotsu, Shin-Ya Sato, Osamu Akashi and Satoshi Kurihara

 

Fluctuated peer selection policy and its performance in large-scale multi-agent systems

255-268

 

 

Francesco Amigoni, Stefano Gualandi, Daniele Menotti and Guido Sangiovanni

 

A multiagent architecture for controlling the Palamede satellite

269-289

 

 

Keke Cai, Scott Spangler, Ying Chen and Li Zhang

 

Leveraging sentiment analysis for topic detection

291-302

 

 

Makoto Tasaki, Yuichi Yabu, Yuki Iwanari, Makoto Yokoo, Janusz Marecki, Pradeep Varakantham and Milind Tambe

 

Introducing communication in Dis-POMDPs with locality of interaction

303-311

 

 

Yifeng Zeng and Prashant Doshi

 

Model identification in interactive influence diagrams using mutual information

313-327

 

 

 

 

Volume 8, Number 2, 2010

Contents

Björn-Oliver Hartmann, Klemens Böhm, Andranik Khachatryan, Stephan Schosser and Bodo Vogt

Incentivizing connectivity in structured Peer-to-Peer systems

 123-147

Bui Quang Hung, Masanori Otsubo, Yoshinori Hijikata and Shogo Nishida

HITS algorithm improvement using semantic text portion

 149-164

K.A. Hawick and C.J. Scogings

Spatial pattern growth and emergent animat segregation

 165-179

Suman Saha, C.A. Murthy and Sankar K. Pal

Application of rough ensemble classifier to web services categorization and focused crawling

 181-202

Yaoxue Zhang, Laurence T. Yang, Yuezhi Zhou and Wenyuan Kuang

Information security underlying transparent computing: Impacts, visions and challenges

 203-217

Martijn Warnier and Frances Brazier

Anonymity services for multi-agent systems

 219-232

Volume 8, Number 1, 2010

Contents

Christian Guttmann, Michael Georgeff and Iyad Rahwan

Collective iterative allocation: Enabling fast and optimal group decision making The role of group knowledge, optimism, and decision policies in distributed coordination

 1-35

Elias Zavitsanos, Georgios Paliouras, George A. Vouros and Sergios Petridis

Learning subsumption hierarchies of ontology concepts from texts

 37-51

Ioannis Anagnostopoulos and Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos

Estimating the size and evolution of categorised topics in web directories

 53-68

Peng Zhang, Xingquan Zhu, Zhiwang Zhang and Yong Shi

Multiple criteria programming models for VIP E-Mail behavior analysis

 69-78

Walamitien H. Oyenan and Scott A. DeLoach

Towards a systematic approach for designing autonomic systems

 79-97

Haralambos Mouratidis, Manuel Kolp, Paolo Giorgini and Stephane Faulkner

An architectural description language for secure Multi-Agent Systems

 99-122

Volume 7, Number 4, 2009

Contents

Mikhail Bautin and Steven Skiena

Concordance-based entity-oriented search

 303-319

Lucas Agussurja and Hoong Chuin Lau

The price of stability in selfish scheduling games

 321-332

Francisco Coelho and Helder Coelho

Meta-agency and individual power

 333-346

Xia Wang, Manfred Hauswirth, Tomas Vitvar and doug foxvog

Building application ontologies from descriptions of Semantic Web Services

 347-362

Ali Mohammad Zareh Bidoki, Nasser Yazdani and Pedram Ghodsnia

FICA: A novel intelligent crawling algorithm based on reinforcement learning

 363-373

Patrice Roy, Bruno Bouchard, Abdenour Bouzouane and Sylvain Giroux

A hybrid plan recognition model for Alzheimer's patients: Interleaved-erroneous dilemma

 375-397

Volume 7, Number 3, 2009

Contents

Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Stephen Cranefield, Martin K. Purvis and Maryam A. Purvis

Norm emergence in agent societies formed by dynamically changing networks

 223-232

Koichi Moriyama

Utility based Q-learning to facilitate cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma games

 233-242

Scott Spangler, Ying Chen, Larry Proctor, Ana Lelescu, Amit Behal, Bin He, Thomas D. Griffin, Anna Liu, Brad Wade and Trevor Davis

COBRA – mining web for COrporate Brand and Reputation Analysis

 243-254

Wenbing Zhao, Honglei Zhang and Hua Chai

A lightweight fault tolerance framework for Web services

 255-268

Keivan Kianmehr, Tansel Özyer, Mehmet Kaya and Reda Alhajj

Wrapping VRXQuery with self-adaptive fuzzy capabilities

 269-279

Torunn Vølstad, Fei Liu and Sheng-Uei Guan

Layered RDF: An object-oriented approach to web information representation

 281-301

Volume 7, Number 2, 2009

Contents

Eduardo Rodrigues Gomes and Ryszard Kowalczyk

Learning the IPA market with individual and social rewards

 123-138

Renée Elio, Eleni Stroulia and Warren Blanchet

Using interaction models to detect and resolve inconsistencies in evolving service compositions

 139-160

Yoshiaki Yasumura, Takahiko Kamiryo, Shohei Yoshikawa and Kuniaki Uehara

Acquisition of a concession strategy in multi-issue negotiation

 161-171

Yain-Whar Si and Sio-Fan Lou

Fuzzy adaptive agent for supply chain management

 173-194

Peter Schönhofen

Identifying document topics using the Wikipedia category network

 195-207

Makoto Iguchi and Shigeki Goto

Privacy-conscious P2P data sharing scheme with bogus profile distribution

 209-222

Volume 7, Number 1, 2009

Contents

Eric T. Matson, Scott A. DeLoach and Raj Bhatnagar

Evaluation of properties in the transition of capability based agent organization

 1-21

Matthias Klusch and Frank Kaufer

WSMO-MX: A hybrid Semantic Web service matchmaker

23-42

Naoki Fukuta and Takayuki Ito

Fine-grained efficient resource allocation using approximated combinatorial auctionsA parallel greedy winner approximation for large-scale problems

 43-63

Amy Unruh, James Bailey and Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

Building more robust multi-agent systems using a log-based approach

65-87

Tibor Bosse, Peter-Paul van Maanen and Jan Treur

Simulation and formal analysis of visual attention

89-105

Mohsen Afsharchi, Jörg Denzinger and Behrouz H. Far

Enhancing communication with groups of agents using learned non-unanimous ontology concepts

 107-121

Volume 6, Number 4, 2008

Contents

Tibor Bosse, Dung N. Lam and K. Suzanne Barber

Tools for analyzing intelligent agent systems

 355-371

Hiroaki Ueda, Takeshi Naraki, Yo Nasu, Kazuki Mikami, Kenichi Takahashi and Tetsuhiro Miyahara

State space segmentation for acquisition of agent behavior

373-385

Feng Luo, James Z. Wang and Eric Promislow

Exploring local community structures in large networks

 387-400

Marie-Jo Bellosta, Sylvie Kornman and Daniel Vanderpooten

A unified framework for multiple criteria auction mechanisms

401-419

Luciana Rech, Carlos Montez and Rômulo Silva de Oliveira

Itinerary determination of imprecise mobile agents with firm deadline

421-439

Pavol Navrat, Martin Kovacik, Anna Bou Ezzeddine and Viera Rozinajova

Web search engine working as a bee hive

 441-452

Volume 6, Number 3, 2008

Contents

Robert Tolksdorf, Lyndon Nixon and Elena Simperl

Towards a tuplespace-based middleware for the Semantic Web

 235-251

G. Castellano, A.M. Fanelli and M.A. Torsello

Computational Intelligence techniques for Web personalization

253-272

Paola Velardi, Alessandro Cucchiarelli and Fulvio D'Antonio

Monitoring the status of a research community through a Knowledge Map

 273-294

Li Guo, Dave Robertson and Yun-Heh Chen-Burger

Using multi-agent platform for pure decentralised business workflows

295-311

Leen-Kiat Soh and Xin Li

Investigating adaptive, confidence-based strategic negotiations in complex multiagent environments

313-326

Huiliang Zhang and Shell Ying Huang

A general framework for parallel BDI agents in dynamic environments

 327-351

Volume 6, Number 2, 2008

Contents

Yoseba K. Penya and Nicholas R. Jennings

Optimal combinatorial electricity markets

 123-135

Henry Hexmoor, Shahram Rahimi and Rachil Chandran

Delegations guided by trust and autonomy

137-155

Pavel Klinov, Julia M. Taylor and Lawrence J. Mazlack

Interval rough mereology and description logic: An approach to formal treatment of imprecision in the Semantic Web ontologies

 157-174

Vladimir Zadorozhny, Michael Yudelson and Peter Brusilovsky

A framework for performance evaluation of user modeling servers for Web applications

175-191

Peep Küngas and Mihhail Matskin

Symbolic negotiation: Partial deduction for linear logic with coalition formation

193-215

Ioannis V. Papaioannou, Ioanna G. Roussaki and Miltiades E. Anagnostou

Neural networks against genetic algorithms for negotiating agent behaviour prediction

 217-233

Volume 6, Number 1, 2008

Contents

Leen-Kiat Soh

Considering operational issues for multiagent conceptual inferencing in a distributed information retrieval application

1-28

Arnaud Doniec, René Mandiau, Sylvain Piechowiak and Stéphane Espié

Controlling non-normative behaviors by anticipation for autonomous agents

29-42

Laurent Mazuel and Nicolas Sabouret

Generic command interpretation algorithms for conversational agents

43-57

Frank McCarey, Mel Ó Cinnéide and Nicholas Kushmerick

Knowledge reuse for software reuse

 59-81

Mourad Atlas and Yan-Qing Zhang

Fuzzy neural Web agents for efficient NBA scouting

83-91

Anna V. Zhdanova

Community-driven ontology construction in social networking portals

 93-121

Volume 5, Number 4, 2007

Contents

Xiaocong Fan and John Yen

Multi-party communication and information-need anticipation by experience

357-373

Michele Ruta, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco Maria Donini 

Semantic based collaborative P2P in ubiquitous computing

375-391

Guido Boella, Luigi Sauro, Leendert van der Torre

From social power to social importance

393-404

Jianhan Zhu, Alexandre L. Gonçalves, Victoria S. Uren, Enrico Motta, Roberto Pacheco, Marc Eisenstadt, Dawei Song

 Relation discovery from web data for competency management

405 - 417

Antonella Chirichiello and Gwen Salaün 

Encoding process algebraic descriptions of web services into BPEL

419 - 434

Ahmed Hadj-Kacem, Amira Regayeg, Mohamed Jmaiel

ForMAAD: A formal method for agent-based application design 

435 - 454

Acknowledgement

455

Volume 5, Number 3, 2007

Contents

John D. King, Yuefeng Li, Xiaohui Tao, Richi Nayak

Mining world knowledge for analysis of search engine content

233-253

Zili Zhang and Chengqi Zhang

Building agent-based hybrid intelligent systems: A case study

255-271

Pasquale De Meo, Giovanni Quattrone, Giorgio Terracina, Domenico Ursino

Utilization of intelligent agents for supporting citizens in their access to e-government services

273-310

Orland Hoeber, Xue Dong Yang, Yiyu Yao

 VisiQ: Supporting visual and interactive query refinement

311 - 329

Hiroaki Ueda, Takeshi Naraki, Naoki Hanada, Hideaki Kimoto, Kenichi Takahashi, Tetsuhiro Miyahara

Fuzzy Q-Learning with the modified fuzzy ART neural network

331 - 341

William K. Cheung and Yuxiang Sun

Identifying a hierarchy of bipartite subgraphs for web site abstraction 

343 - 355

Volume 5, Number 2, 2007

Contents

Junzhong Ji, Chunnian Liu, Jing Yan, Ning Zhong

An improved Bayesian network structure learning algorithm and its application in an intelligent B2C portal

127-138

G.T. Jayaputera, S.W. Loke, A. Zaslavsky

Design, implementation and run-time evolution of a mission-based multiagent system

139-159

Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli

Timed environment for web agents

161-175

Yuping Yang and M. Howard Williams

 Personalized redirection and content adaptation for increased user control of communications

177 - 196

Juan Manuel Serrano and Sascha Ossowski

A compositional framework for the specification of interaction protocols in multiagent organizations

197 - 214

Davide Balzarotti, Paolo Costa, Gian Pietro Picco

 The LighTS tuple space framework and its customization for context-aware applications

215 - 231

Volume 5, Number 1, 2007

Contents

Xiaohua Xu, Ling Chen, Ping He

A novel ant clustering algorithm based on cellular automata

1-14

Norimichi Ukita

Real-time cooperative multi-target tracking by dense communication among Active Vision Agents

15-29

Min Xu, Lin Padgham, Aloys Mbala, James Harland

Tracking reliability and helpfulness in agent interactions

31-46

A. Suna and A. El Fallah Seghrouchni

 Programming mobile intelligent agents: An operational semantics

47 - 67

Loris Penserini, Manuel Kolp, Luca Spalazzi

Social-oriented engineering of intelligent software

69 - 87

Ronny Siebes and Spyros Kotoulas

 pRoute: Peer selection using shared term similarity matrices

89 - 107

W.C. Cho and D. Richards

Ontology construction and concept reuse with formal concept analysis for improved web document retrieval

109 - 126

Volume 4, Number 4, 2006

Contents

Haizheng Zhang and Victor Lesser

Forming and searching content-based hierarchical agent clusters in distributed information retrieval systems

353 - 370

 Yinglong Ma, Yulin Feng, Beihong Jin, Jun Wei

A default extension to distributed description logics

371 - 383

Prasanna Lokuge and Damminda Alahakoon

An extended agent model embedded with "intelligent-deliberation" for improved performances in a container terminal application

385 - 405

Muhammad Abulaish and Lipika Dey

 Information extraction and imprecise query answering from web documents

407 - 429

Toshiko Wakaki, Hiroyuki Itakura, Masaki Tamura, Hiroshi Motoda, Takashi Washio

A study on rough set-aided feature selection for automatic web-page classification

431 - 441

Acknowledgement

443

Volume 4, Number 3, 2006

Contents

Jörg Denzinger and Jasmine Hamdan

Improving observation-based modeling of other agents using tentative stereotyping and compactification through kd-tree structuring

255 - 270

Shen Huang, Yong Yu, Gui-Rong Xue, Ben-Yu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma

TSSP: Multi-features based reinforcement algorithm to find related papers

271 - 287

Alfredo Cuzzocrea

 Combining multidimensional user models and knowledge representation and management techniques for making web services knowledge-aware

289 - 312

Longbing Cao, Chengqi Zhang, Jiming Liu

Ontology-based integration of business intelligence

313 - 325

Xiaohua Hu, T.Y. Lin, Il-Yeol Song, Xia Lin, Illhoi Yoo, Min Song

A semi-supervised efficient learning approach to extract biological relationships from web-based biomedical digital library

327 - 339

Zhihong Tian, Mingzeng Hu, Bin Li, Bo Liu, Hongli Zhang

Defending against distributed denial-of-service attacks with an auction-based method

341 - 351

Volume 4, Number 2, 2006

Contents

Manolis Vozalis and Konstantinos G. Margaritis

 On the enhancement of collaborative filtering by demographic data

117 - 138

Audun Jøsang, Elizabeth Gray, Michael Kinateder

Simplification and analysis of transitive trust networks

139 - 161

Adam Jatowt and Mitsuru Ishizuka

Temporal multi-page summarization

163 - 180

Salvatore Garruzzo, Stefano Modafferi, Domenico Rosaci, Domenico Ursino

An XML-based agent model for supporting user activities on the Web

181 - 207

Elisabeth Crawford and Manuela Veloso

 Mechanism design for multi-agent meeting scheduling

209 - 220

Josenildo Costa da Silva, Matthias Klusch, Stefano Lodi, Gianluca Moro

Privacy-preserving agent-based distributed data clustering

221 - 238

Sahin Albayrak and Dragan Milosevic

Multi-domain strategy coordination approach for optimal resource usage in agent based filtering framework

239 - 253

Volume 4, Number 1, 2006

Contents

Sergio Camorlinga and Ken Barker

 A complex adaptive system based on squirrels behaviors for distributed resource allocation

1 - 23

Eric Lo, David W. Cheung, C.Y. Ng, Thomas Lee

WSIPL: An XML scripting language for integrating web service data and applications

25 - 41

Meikang Qiu, Kang Zhang, Maolin Huang

Usability in mobile interface browsing

43 - 59

James Z. Wang and Matti Vanninen

 Self-configuration protocols for P2P networks

61 - 76

C.J. Butz, S. Hua, R.B. Maguire

 A web-based bayesian intelligent tutoring system for computer programming

77 - 97

Li Weigang and Vinícius Guilherme Fracari Branco

A web information system for determining the controllers of financial entities in central bank of Brazil

99 - 116

Volume 3, Number 4, 2005

Contents

Shiren Ye, Tat-Seng Chua, Jeremy R. Kei

Clustering web pages about persons and organizations

203 - 216

Emerson Cabrera Paraiso and Jean-Paul A. Barthès

An intelligent speech interface for personal assistants applied to knowledge management

217 - 230

Xin Li and Leen-Kiat Soh

Hybrid negotiation for resource coordination in multiagent systems

231 - 259

Hansheng Lei and Venu Govindaraju

Matching and retrieving sequential patterns using regression

261 - 270

WIC Introduction

271 - 272

WIC Structure

273

Volume 3, Number 3, 2005

 

Contents

Alberto Díaz and Pablo Gervás

Personalisation in news delivery systems: Item summarization and multi-tier item selection using relevance feedback

135

Nenad Stojanovic

Information-need driven query refinement

155

Tetsuya Yoshida, Daiki Shinkai, Shogo Nishida

A document retrieval support system with term relationship

171

Vincenza Carchiolo, Alessandro Longheu, Michele Malgeri

Information categorization in web pages and sites

183

WIC Introduction

199

WIC Structure