Cooperative Information Systems - 9th International Conference, CoopIS 2001, Proceedings

The proceedings contain 32 papers. The topics discussed include: the evolution of distributed component architectures; implicit culture for multi-agent interaction support; extending multi-agent cooperation by overhearing; deploying distributed state information in mobile agent systems; cooperative meeting scheduling among agents based on multiple negotiations; Autoplex: automated discovery of content for virtual databases planning and optimizing semantic information requests using domain modeling and resource characteristics; P-grid: a self-organizing access structure for P2P information systems; moving active functionality from centralized to open distributed heterogeneous environments; supporting heterogeneous users in collaborative virtual environments using AOP; a process service model for dynamic enterprise process interconnection; and employing multiuser interactions in the development of synchronous applications.