This collection of papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium explores the multifaceted concept of personalized agents, particularly focusing on their role as autonomous digital assistants. The symposium papers investigate the design, implementation, and application of agents that act on behalf of users in computer-based tasks. The focus is on agents that can manage schedules, filter communications, negotiate, discover information, and initiate interactions within digital environments, often residing in virtual worlds and possessing user-specific data.

This volume presents a snapshot of research in personalized agents from a 2002 AAAI Fall Symposium, indicating a focus on the foundational concepts and early applications of this field. The papers likely offer technical discussions and theoretical frameworks relevant to researchers and practitioners in artificial intelligence and computer science. The collection serves as a record of the state of the art at the time, exploring the potential for agents to act as user proxies in digital tasks.