Intelligent software web agents: A gap analysis

Cooperative Intelligent Software Agents

The availability of network-based information sources and services, along with the wide use of of World Wide Web, presents a great opportunity for enhanced problem solving support that incorporates information gathering into the problem solving framework. The concept of an intelligent information agent has been explored for information accessing and ltering tasks (e.g., ltering of newsgroup inf...

Intelligent Web Servers as Agents

Software agents have been recognized as one of the main building blocks of the emerging infrastructure for the Semantic Web, but their relationship with more standard components, such as Web servers and clients, is still not clear. At the server side, a possible role for agents is to enhance the capabilities of servers using their intelligence to provide more complex services and behaviors. In ...

Intelligent Software Agents Analysis in E-Commerce II

Cowan et al. (2002) argued that the human cognitive ability to search for information and to evaluate their usefulness is extremely limited in comparison to those of computers. In detail, it's cumbersome and time-consuming for a person to search for information from limited resources and to evaluate the information's usefulness. They further indicated that while people are able to perform sever...

Intelligent Software Agents Analysis in E-Commerce I

Intelligent Software Agents with Applications in Focus

Most people are familiar with the concept of agents in real life. There are stock-market agents, sports agents, real-estate agents, etc. Agents are used to filter and present information to consumers. Likewise, during the last couple of decades, people have developed software agents, that have the similar role. They behave intelligently, run on computers, and are autonomous, but are not human b...