This book presents 10 chapters on various aspects of intelligent information agents contributed by members of the respective AgentLink special interest group.

The papers are organized in three parts on agent-based information systems, adaptive information agents, and coordination of information agents.

European Research and Development of Intelligent Information Agents: The AgentLink Perspective.- European Research and Development of Intelligent Information Agents: The AgentLink Perspective.- Agent-Based Information Systems.- MIKS: An Agent Framework Supporting Information Access and Integration.- Picsel and Xyleme: Two Illustrative Information Integration Agents.- Adaptive Information Extraction: Core Technologies for Information Agents.- Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining: The KDEC Scheme.- Adaptive Information Agents.- User Profiling with Privacy: A Framework for Adaptive Information Agents.- Implicit Culture for Information Agents.- From Physical Agents to Recommender Agents.- Coordination of Information Agents.- Objective versus Subjective Coordination in the Engineering of Agent Systems.- Sustainable Coordination.- The Pragmatics of Software Agents: Analysis and Design of Agent Communication Languages.

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