1. Application Areas for Intelligent Software Agents
Cognitive science
Kim Mi-kyung

2. 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

3. 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

4. Cont’d
2. The basis for the description of the individual application areas
The information agent
The communications agent
The transaction agent

5. 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.

6. Cont’d 3. Effective tools for navigation
Navigators(the current browsers)
search catalogs(Yahoo)
search engines(AltaVista and MetaCrawler)

7. Simple search engines
Represent a low level of search tools in the WWW