This book presents 10 chapters on various aspects of intelligent information agents contributed by members of the respective AgentLink special interest group.The papers are organized in three parts on agent-based information systems, adaptive information agents, and coordination of information agents.

European Research and Development of Intelligent Information Agents: The AgentLink Perspective.- European Research and Development of Intelligent Information Agents: The AgentLink Perspective.- Agent-Based Information Systems.- MIKS: An Agent Framework Supporting Information Access and Integration.- Picsel and Xyleme: Two Illustrative Information Integration Agents.- Adaptive Information Extraction: Core Technologies for Information Agents.- Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining: The KDEC Scheme.- Adaptive Information Agents.- User Profiling with Privacy: A Framework for Adaptive Information Agents.- Implicit Culture for Information Agents.- From Physical Agents to Recommender Agents.- Coordination of Information Agents.- Objective versus Subjective Coordination in the Engineering of Agent Systems.- Sustainable Coordination.- The Pragmatics of Software Agents: Analysis and Design of Agent Communication Languages.