These are the proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Cooperative
Information Agents (CIA 2002), held at the Universidad de Rey Juan Carlos in
Madrid, Spain, September 18–20, 2002. It was colocated with the Third International
Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW 2002).
Since 1997 the annual CIA workshop series has aimed to provide an open forum
for all parties interested in the research and development of intelligent information
agents for the Internet and Web. Each event in this renowned series attempts
to capture the intrinsic interdisciplinary nature of this research area by calling
for contributions from different research communities, and by promoting open
and informative discussions on all related topics.
In keeping with its tradition, this year’s workshop featured a sequence of regular
and invited talks of excellence given by leading experts in the fields related to
information agent technology. These talks covered a broad area of topics of interest,
such as information agents for mobile computing environments as well as
information gathering, exchange, management, and collaborative recommender
systems. Other topics included agent interaction and communication, negotiation
strategies for purchasing relevant information, and agent-based distributed
knowledge management.