Intelligent integration of information
SIGMOD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
SIMS: Retrieving and integrating information from multiple sources
SIGMOD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Introduction to the Special Issue on Software Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
Infomaster: an information integration system
SIGMOD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Reusable Components for Knowledge Modelling: Case Studies in Parametric Design Problem Solving
Reusable Components for Knowledge Modelling: Case Studies in Parametric Design Problem Solving
Intelligent Information Agents: Agent-Based Information Discovery and Management on the Internet
Intelligent Information Agents: Agent-Based Information Discovery and Management on the Internet
Using Ontologies for Defining Tasks, Problem-Solving Methods and their Mappings
EKAW '97 Proceedings of the 10th European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management
Semantic Brokering over Dynamic Heterogeneous Data Sources in InfoSleuth(tm)
ICDE '99 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering
Query-answering algorithms for information agents
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
ECCBR '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Advances in Case-Based Reasoning
An Ontology-Driven Framework for Deploying JADE Agent Systems
WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
Distributed multi-agent communication system based on dynamic ontology mapping
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
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Cooperative Information Agents and modern information systems in general have to access large amount of information distributed across multiple heterogeneous sources. A great challenge of such systems is to evolve by adding new information sources or adapting the existing components for different domain knowledge. We propose the UPML as a framework to build Information Agents by reusing a library of problem solving components that are defined in a domain-independent manner. Moreover, the UPML language is used as an Agent Capability Description Language (ACDL) suitable to configure and build an application. From this approach, a new application can be build by linking the components of the library with a particular domain and a collection of heterogeneous information sources. Adaptability and dynamic configuration of such a system is achieved by reasoning about the UPML specifications of agent capabilities. Independence of the domain and semantic interoperability are achieved by using ontologies and bridges (mappings between ontologies), while independence from the information sources is based on the use of ontologies to overcome semantic heterogeneity and wrappers to achieve syntactic interoperability.