Title :
Information aggregation and agent interaction patterns in InfoSleuth
Author :
Perry, Brad ; Taylor, Malcolm ; Unruh, Amy
Author_Institution :
MCC, Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
The MCC InfoSleuthTM Project is an agent-based system for information gathering and analysis tasks performed over networks of autonomous information sources. A key motivation of the InfoSleuth system is that real information gathering applications require long-running monitoring and integration of information at various levels of abstraction. To this end, InfoSleuth agents enable a loose integration of technologies allowing: (1) extraction of semantic concepts from autonomous information sources; (2) registration and integration of semantically annotated information from diverse sources; and (3) temporal monitoring, information routing, and identification of trends appearing across sources in the information network. In this paper we discuss the agents in InfoSleuth applications and the goal-driven interaction patterns that enable them to dynamically organize and cooperate to perform integrated and temporal information-gathering tasks
Keywords :
information analysis; information networks; software agents; MCC InfoSleuth Project; agent interaction patterns; agent-based system; autonomous information source networks; cooperation; dynamic organization; goal-driven interaction patterns; information aggregation; information analysis; information gathering; information network; information routing; semantic concept extraction; semantically annotated information integration; semantically annotated information registration; temporal monitoring; trend identification; Application software; Electrical capacitance tomography; Information analysis; Microelectronics; Monitoring; Read only memory; Routing; Space technology; Web sites; World Wide Web;
Conference_Titel :
Cooperative Information Systems, 1999. CoopIS '99. Proceedings. 1999 IFCIS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0384-5
DOI :
10.1109/COOPIS.1999.792180