This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents - DAI Meets Databases, CIA-97, held in Kiel, Germany, in February 1997.The book opens with 6 invited full papers by internationally leading researchers surveying the state of the art in the area.

Issues in agent-based software engineering.- A database perspective to a cooperation environment.- Extraction of informations from highly heterogeneous source of textual data.- Cases, information, and agents.- Knowledge rovers: Cooperative intelligent agent support for enterprise information architectures.- The CORBA specification for cooperation in heterogeneous information systems.- Enriching active databases with agent technology.- Result sharing among agents using reactive rules.- Metadatabase meets distributed AI.- A reactive logical agent.- Neural fuzzy agents for database search.- ‘Learning’ based filtering of text information using simple interest profiles.- An organized society of autonomous knowledge discovery agents.- Cooperative Information Agents and communication.- Achieving efficient cooperation in a multi-agent system: the twin-base modeling.- Approaching interoperability for heterogenous multiagent systems using high order agencies.- Ascription of intensional ontologies in anthropological descriptions of Multi-Agent Systems.- Interoperability of distributed and heterogeneous systems based on software agent-oriented frameworks.- An architecture for transparent access to semantically heterogeneous information sources.- Multi-level security in multiagent systems.

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