ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are grateful to Arne Sølvberg for fruitful discussions during the early stages of the work. We
also would like to thank Thomas Brox Røst and Richard Sanders for their comments and proof
reading. This work is partially supported by the Norwegian Research Foundation in the
framework of the Distributed Information Technology Systems (DITS) program and the
ElComAg project.
REFERENCES
Bradshaw, J. M. (Ed.). (1997). Software Agents. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press/The MIT
Press.
DuBois, P. (1999). MySQL. Macmillan Technical Publishing.
Finin, T., Labrou, Y. & Mayfield J. (1997). KQML as an Agent Communication Language.
In: J. M. Bradshaw, (Ed.), Software Agents (pp. 291-316). AAAI Press/The MIT Press: Menlo
Park, CA.
FIPA (2000). Agent Communication Language Specifications. Available:
http://www.fipa.org/repository/aclspecs.php
Genesereth, M. R. (1997). An Agent Based Framework for Interoperability. In: J. M.
Bradshaw, (Ed.), Software Agents (pp. 317-345). AAAI Press/The MIT Press: Menlo Park, CA.
Huhns, M. N., Singh, M. P., & Gasser, L. (Eds.). (1998), Readings in Agents, Morgan
Kaufmann Publishers.
Jennings, N. R., & Wooldridge, M. J. (Eds.). (1998). Agent Technology: Foundations,
Applications and Markets. Springer Verlag.
Konstan, J. A., Miller, B. N., Maltz, D., Herlocker, J. L., Gordon, L. R., & Riedl, J. (1997).
GroupLens: applying collaborative filtering to Usenet news. Communications of the ACM, 40(3),
77-87.
Kozierok, R. & Maes, P. (1993). A Learning Interface Agent for Scheduling Meetings.
Proceedings of the ACM-SIGCHI International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces, Florida,
81-93.
Lieberman, H. (1995). Letizia: An Agent that Assists Web Browsing. Proceedings of the 14-th
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'95), AAAI Press.
Maes, P. (1994). Agents that Reduce Work and Information overload. Communications of the
ACM, 37(7), 31-40.
70
Agents in Mobile Commerce