Intelligent Agents in the Evolution of Web and Applications

Intelligent agents have revolutionised the way we do business, we teach, we learn, design systems, and so on. Agent applications are increasingly being developed in - mains as diverse as meteorology, manufacturing, war gaming, UAV mission mana- ment and the evolution of Web [1]. The Web has also has the same effect on our daily life as the intelligent agents. We use Web for information search, shopping, news, communication and so on. We wonder how we lived without Web in the past [2]. The book presents a sample of some of the most innovative research on the use of intelligent agents in the evolution of Web. There are thirteen chapters in the book. Chapters are on theoretical foundations as well as practical applications. We are grateful to the contributors and reviewers for their contribution. We believe that the research reported in the book will encourage researchers to develop the robust human-like intelligent machines for the service of humans. We sincerely thank Springer-Verlag for their editorial support during the prepa- tion of the manuscript. The editors appreciate the resources provided by Wroclaw University of Technology and the University of South Australia to edit this volume.

Intelligent agents are widely used in many real world applications including the evolution of web and applications. The contributions included in the book are:

• Innovations in Intelligent Agents in the Evolution of Web and Applications
• A Multi-Agent System Based on Evolutionary Learning for the Usability Analysis of Websites
• Towards Norm-Governed Behavior in Virtual Enterprises
• e-JABAT - An Implementation of Web-based A-Team
• A Resource Discovery Method Based on Multi-Agents in P2P Systems
• Adaptive and Intelligent Agents Applied in the Taking of Decisions Inside a Web-Based Education System
• Browsing Assistant for Changing Pages
• Considering Resource Management in Agent-based Virtual Organization
• BDI Agents: Flexibility, Personalization and Adaptation for Web-based Support Systems
• Ontology for Agents and the Web
• Ontology Agents and their applications in the Web-based Education Systems
• An Evolutionary Approach for Intelligent Negotiation Agents in e-Marketplaces
• Security of Intelligent Agents in the Web-based Application