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# AOIS '02
AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS

### Proceedings of the Fourth International Bi-Conference Workshop on AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AOIS-2002 at AAMAS*02)

### Bologna (Italy), July 16, 2002

Edited by

### Paolo Giorgini *
Yves Lespérance **
Gerd Wagner ***
Eric Yu ****

* Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Trento (IT)
** Department of Computer Science, York Univ. (CA)
*** Dep. Information & Technology, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology (NL)
**** Faculty of Information Studies, Univ. of Toronto (CA)

## Table of Contents

1. Integrating Ontologies into Multiagent Systems Engineering
   Jonathan DiLeo, Timothy Jacobs, and Scott DeLoach
2. On the Use of Patterns in Agent System Design
   Michael Weiss
3. Developing Formal Specifications of MAS in SLABS -- A Case Study of Evolutionary Multi-Agent Ecosystem
   Hong Zhu
4. Design of supplier agents for an auction-based market
   Stefan Botman, Mark Hoogendoorn, Vasile Bud, Ashutosh Jaiswal, Steve Hawkins, Yelena Kryzhnyaya, Janice Pearce, Anne Scholcraft, Espen Sigvartsen, John Collins, and Maria Gini
5. A Market-Based Recommender System
   Luc Moreau, Norliza Zaini, Jing Zhou, Nicholas R. Jennings, Yan Zheng Wei, Wendy Hall, David De Roure, Ian Gilchrist, Mark O'Dell, Sigi Reich, Tobias Berka, and Claudia Di Napoli
6. Handling Complex Information Environments: A Multi-Agent Framework
   Travis Bauer and David B. Leake
7. Flexible Caching in Peer-to-Peer Information Systems
   Pinar Yolum and Munindar P. Singh
8. A Multi-agent System for Collaborative Bookmarking
   Rushed Kanawati and Maria Malek
9. Using Agents to Support the Selection of Virtual Enterprise Teams
   Sobah Abbas Petersen and Monica Divitini
10. An Agent-Oriented Personalized Web Searching System
    Tarek Helmy, Satoshi Amamiya, Tsunenori Mine, and Makoto Amamiya
11. An Application of Agent UML to Supply Chain Management
    Marc-Philippe Huget
12. Personalised Briefing Agents to Improve Situational Awareness
    Graham S. Horn and Zoë P. Lock
13. Key Components of Agent-based Development
    Amir Zeid
14. Reuse as a Reason and a Mean to Become a Rational Autonomous Agent
    Matteo Bonifacio, Paolo Bouquet, Roberta Ferrario, and Diego Ponte

submitted by Paolo Giorgini, June 5, 2002