A Different Approach to Information Provision and Retrieval
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Abstract:
Information Retrieval finds itself at an interesting juncture, where the amount of information that is available to people increases every day from its already bewildering limit. The problem is how to get the information we need in a timely and efficient fashion, without delivering useless or unwanted information. Current Web-Based IR systems do their best, but they will find it increasingly difficult to provide the services people want. In this paper we present a system which is based on the use of intelligent agents to search for information and also to distribute information. Information agents distribute the information their owners want others to see, whilst search agents interact with these information agents to find information their owners are looking for. Since we expect the agents to communicate with each other, the end result of the system is a community of agents that are able to deliver information to users when they want it, sharing their knowledge about who wants what, and adapting to the changing needs of the architecture's users. We present the architecture and provide thoughts for its possible future development. 1.
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