Communications of the ACM
InfoSleuth: agent-based semantic integration of information in open and dynamic environments
SIGMOD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Incremental clustering and dynamic information retrieval
STOC '97 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Communities in Cyberspace
The Stability, Scalability and Performance of Multi-agent Systems
BT Technology Journal
Knowledge Acquisition Via Incremental Conceptual Clustering
Machine Learning
Matchmaking to Support Intelligent Agents for Portfolio Management
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
A Taxonomy of Middle-Agents for the Internet
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Matchmaking for information agents
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Information Alert in Distributed Digital Libraries: The Models, Languages, and Architecture of DIAS
ECDL '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Data Models and Languages for Agent-Based Textual Information Dissemination
CIA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents VI
Emergent properties of referral systems
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
DIET — A Scalable, Robust and Adaptable Multi-Agent Platform for Information Management
BT Technology Journal
NEXUS — Resilient Intelligent Middleware
BT Technology Journal
Self-Organizing Agents for Grid Load Balancing
GRID '04 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Evolving preferences among emergent groups of agents
Adaptive agents and multi-agent systems
On the convergence of autonomous agent communities
Multiagent and Grid Systems
FSP and FLTL framework for specification and verification of middle-agents
International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science - Semantic Knowledge Engineering
A spatially dependent communication model for ubiquitous systems
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Agent and multi-agent applications to support distributed communities of practice: a short review
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A survey of environments and mechanisms for human-human stigmergy
E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Self-organising applications using lightweight agents
ESOA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Engineering Self-Organising Systems
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This paper attempts to construct a flexible and effective organisation involving users and middle agents in distributed information systems. In particular, middle agents are employed to organise users according to users" expressed characteristics (e.g. behaviour). Due to the distributed and dynamically changing properties of users, middle agents are used to search suitable information resources in response to user requests. During search, middle agents also monitor and recognise user behaviour, and group users that have matching behaviour together. So eventually users with similar preferences or interests can be clustered into the same community. Self-organising communities reduce the difficulties of human design work on organisation and user similarity calculation, and avoid the constraints due to the design. The user preferences, at the same time, are reflected accurately. Simulated experiments have shown that self-organising communities can organise users properly, and have continuously improved search speed and search efficiency as the communities are correctly formed. In addition, the formation of communities was scalable as number of users increased.