Application Areas for Intelligent Software Agents Cognitive science 99132-502 Kim Mi-kyung
Contents 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Information Retrieval and Filtering Information agent Cooperation agent Transaction agent 6.2 Information Retrieval and Filtering 6.3 NewsWatcher
6.1 Introduction 1. The aim of this chapter To provide interested readers with an introduction to the complex area of intelligent agents To permit them to recognize the future potentials of this technology
Cont’d 2. The basis for the description of the individual application areas The information agent The communications agent The transaction agent
6.2 Information Retrieval and Filtering 1. The information agent Its primary task To support its user in the search for information and in to provide information 2. The information retrieval and filtering It supports the user in his search for information in the Internet.
Cont’d 3. Effective tools for navigation Navigators(the current browsers) search catalogs(Yahoo) search engines(AltaVista and MetaCrawler)
Simple search engines Represent a low level of search tools in the WWW