Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal ----------------------------------------------------------- ISSN 0219-1377 by Springer-Verlag Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/ ======================================= Volume 2, Number 3 (August 2000): Table of Contents --------------------------------------------------- Critical Reviews - The State of the Art in Agent Communication Languages by Mamadou Tadiou Kone, Akira Shimazu and Tatsuo Nakajima Regular Papers - Simulating the Ecology of Oligopoly Competition with Genetic Algorithms by Shu-Heng Chen and Chih-Chi Ni - Intentions in the Coordinated Generation of Graphics and Text from Tabular Data by Massimo Fasciano and Guy Lapalme - An Intelligent Decision Support System for Investment Analysis by K.L. Poh Short Papers - Spatio-Temporal Analysis with the Self-Organizing Feature Map by Susan E. George - A Probe-based Technique to Optimize Join Queries in Distributed Internet Databases by Cyrus Shahabi, Latifur Khan, and Dennis McLeod