FIGI: the architecture of an Internet-based financial information gathering infrastructure

In this paper we present the architecture of a financial information gathering infrastructure (FIGI). FIGI helps investors collect, filter, combine and integrate portfolio-related information provided through various Internet services like World-Wide Web sites and Web databases. FIGI is being developed with Java-based mobile agent technology by Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center. The employment of Java and mobile agents provides as with a framework for unifying the various financial information services currently available on the Internet and for sustaining continuous information provision even to mobile users