Cooperative Information Agents : First International Workshop CIA97 Kiel Germany February 26 28 1997 Proceedings 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. The 16 revised full research papers presented were carefully selected during a highly competitive round of reviewing. The papers are organized in topical sections on databases and agent technology agents for database search and knowledge discovery communication and cooperation among information agents and agent based access to heterogeneous information sources