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Building a Synonymous Search Index Building a Synonymous Search Index by Peter Morville discusses the need for the creation of a thesaurus for web sites with the purpose of helping the user find documents they need within a large information system. Peter lays out the steps you can take to building a thesaurus by term generation and consolidation.
Casting an
Information Net
Casting an Information Net by Jeff Ubois of Upside Today discusses the historic and current happenings of finding information and searching the Internet and what the future beholds.
Cheap, Cheaper, Cheapest Cheap, Cheaper, Cheapest by Michelle V. Rafter for The Industry Standard discusses the latest happenings with ShoppingBots and what the future holds.
Choosing Keywords Choosing Keywords by Rhonda McGuinness discusses how the keywords you choose for your website have a large impact on how your site will perform in search engines. This article outlines some strategies to help you choose your keywords, where to place them in your site and a few things you should avoid.
CogPrints Electronic
Archive
This is an electronic archive for papers in many areas including Computer Science ( e.g. artificial intelligence, robotics, vision, learning, speech, neural networks), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
Collaborative
Interface Agents
Collaborative Interface Agents by Yezdi Lashkari, Max Metral and Pattie Maes, presents a framework for multi-agent collaboration and discuss results of a working prototype, based upon learning agents for electronic mail.
Competing for the
Future with
Intelligent Agents
Competing for the Future with Intelligent Agents by Faramarz Farhoodi and Peter Fingar discusses going one step beyond distributed object technology and that intelligent agents are poised to transform the way we model the enterprise and build information systems.
Computational Mechanisms
for Action Selection
This paper discusses how autonomous agents are able to always select sensible actions in dynamic and complex domains and how long term needs (motivations, goals) can be combined with opportunism and threat avoidance (reactive behavior) to allow for flexible and robust behavioral choice.
Computing, Social
Activity, and
Entertainment: A Field
Study of a
Game MUD


This paper by Jack Muramatsu and Mark S. Ackerman investigates non-work computing, by examining the social activity and interactions on MUD game systems.
Cooperative Multi-Agent
Information Gathering
Cooperative Multi-Agent Information Gathering by Keith Decker, Victor Lesser, M.V. NagendraPrasad and Thomas Wagner is a project to build a cooperative multi-agent information gathering system in the initial domain of computer product queries.
Coordination without Communication Examines situations in which coordinated behaviors occur without prior planning via communication.
Crawling the Web Crawling the Web by Jeff Prosise is a guide to robots, spiders and other shadowy denizens of the Web.
Creatures: Artificial
Life Autonomous Software
Agents for Home
Entertainment
This paper by Stephen Grand, Dave Cliff, and Anil Malhotra gives a technical description of Creatures, a commercial home-entertainment software package. Creatures provides a simulated environment in which exist a number of synthetic agents that a user can interact with in real-time. The agents (known as "creatures") are intended as "virtual pets".
Cyberspace Cyberspace from VRML Works shows the latest developments in cyberspace with regards to VRML visions, demos and experiments, avatars and bots, virtual communities, technical papers and more.
Data Mining Data Mining by Peter Fabris of CIO Magazine discusses how marketing secrets from the financial sector show how data mining charts a profitable course to customer management.
Desperately Seeking:
Helping Hands
and Human Touch
Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch or How Information Brokering, New Forms of Computing, Agency, and Software Agents Will Contribute to Tomorrow's Online Market Place (by making it more personal, more efficient and more people-friendly) by Bjorn Hermans, Zeist, The Netherlands.
Developing Enterprise
Systems with
Intelligent Agent
Technology
Developing Enterprise Systems with Intelligent Agent Technology by Faramarz Farhoodi and Peter Fingar discusses going one step beyond distributed object technology and that intelligent agents are poised to transform the way we model the enterprise and build information systems.
Development of
Intelligent Spatial
Agents
Development of Intelligent Spatial Agents by Armanda Rodrigues, Jonathan Raper and Miguel Capitao discusses and presents a slide show covering the background and current happenings in the relationships of intelligent spatial agents.
Do-I-Care:
A Collaborative
Web Agent
Do-I-Care: A Collaborative Web Agent by Brain Starr, Mark S. Ackerman and Michael Pazzani discusses a social filtering and collaborative resource discovery mechanisms that often fail because of the extra burden, even tiny, placed on the user. This paper proposes an innovative World Wide Web Agent that uses a model of collaboration that leverages the natural incentives for individual users to easily provide for collaborative work. The same authors also wrote another very comprehensive paper called The Do-I-Care Agent: Effective Social Delivery and Filtering on the Web that appeared in the Proceedings of RIAO'97 (Computer-Assisted Information Searching on the Internet), pp 17-31.
Economic Agents A library of technical reports and papers from HP Labs Bristol Agent Technology Group covering Economic Agents, Automated Trading, FIPA and Miscellaneous Papers.
Edited Adaptive
Hypermedia: Combining
Human and Machine
Intelligence to
Achieve Filtered
Information
Edited Adaptive Hypermedia: Combining Human and Machine Intelligence to Achieve Filtered Information by Kristina Hook, Asa Rudstrom and Annika Waern discusses a novel approach to filtering of hypermedia information based on an information broker and user environment coupled together. The advantage of this proposed approach, edited adaptive hypermedia, is that it combines human expertise with machine intelligence in order to achieve high quality of the filtered information provided to the end users.
E-Mail Alerts
Show Growing
Potential
E-Mail Alerts Show Growing Potential by Bill Dedman explains the latest developments in free alerts by e-mail and how they are becoming an important part of the Internet scene on current awareness.
Environment Centered
Analysis and Design of
Coordination
Mechanisms
Environment Centered Analysis and Design of Coordination Mechanisms by Keith S. Decker discusses coordination, as the act of managing interdependencies between activities, is one of the central research issues in Distributed Artificial Intelligence.
Environmental Planning
Using Spatial Agents
This paper begins by presenting agents as they have been defined in their initial areas of research. It then moves on to defining spatial agents and describing research projects that are involved in developing what can be called spatial agents. Finally, it discusses the use of multi-agent architecture defined to implement a decision model for environmental planning.
Environmental Scanning with Intelligent Agents Environmental Scanning with Intelligent Agents discuses the proposed utilization of intelligent agents in the monitoring and scanning of business environment for opportunities and threats.
Ethical Web Agents Ethical Web Agents by David Eichmann discusses agents offering substantial benefits and hazards, and because of this, their development must involve not only attention to technical details, but also the ethical concerns relating to their resulting impact.
Evaluating Search Engine Models for Scholarly Purposes Evaluating Search Engine Models for Scholarly Purposes by Anthony F. Beavers discusses niched and quality control based search engines to be used for scholarly purposes and identifies current applications.
Guide to
Meta-Search Engines
Guide to Meta-Search Engines by Jian Liu, Reference Department, Indiana University Libraries, discusses the world wide web of Meta-Search Engines. Lists and evaluates all the primary Meta-Search Engines and is updated.
Helping Agent
Technologies Get Across
to the Market Place
Helping Agent Technologies Get Across to the Market Place by Leonardo Chiariglione, CSELT, Torino, Italy discusses the standardization of agent technologies and FIPA's role to facilitate and implement new standards to allow agents immediate access into the marketplace of the future today.
How Big is
the Web? How Much
of the Web do
the Search Engines Index?
How up to Date
are the Search
Engines?
How Big is the Web? How much of the Web do the Search Engines index? How up to date are the Search Engines? THese are some of the questions addressed in an article by Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles of the NEC Research Institute in the April 3, 1998 Science: Searching the World Wide Web, 280, p. 98. Answers to these questions impact on the best search methodology to use when searching the Web, and on the future of Web search technology.
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