The World-Wide-Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is presented in loosely structured natural language text with no agent-readable semantics. HTML annotations structure the display of Web pages, but provide virtually no insight into their content. Thus, the designers of intelligentWeb agents need to address the following questions: (1) To what extent can an agent understand information published at Web sites? (2) Is the agent's understanding sufficient to provide genuinely useful assistance to users? (3) Is site-specific hand-coding necessary, or can the agent automatically extract information from unfamiliar Web sites? (4) What aspects of the Web facilitate this competence? In this ...
As the amount of information available to online consumers has grown, so has the need for tools to h...
Agent-based systems simplify user access to the many global virtual enterprises now arriving on the ...
With the emergence and omnipresence of e-commerce on the internet, online purchasing assistants and ...
The World- Wide- Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is prese...
There are two kinds of information-seekers currently wandering the World-Wide Web. First there are u...
Despite high expectations, shopbots have yet to significantly facilitate a richer, more satisfying o...
E-shops are among the most conventional applications of Electronic Commerce. In these shops, the buy...
Many people are buying music CDs over the Web, but with multiple retail sites offering the same CDs,...
The more than enthusiastic success obtained by e-commerce and the continuous growth of the WWW has r...
We present and evaluate an infrastructure with which to rapidly and easily build intelligent softwar...
In this paper, we discuss the various issues in designing intelligent software systems to assist wor...
We present and evaluate an implemented system with which to rapidly and easily build intelligent sof...
The current exponential growth of the Internet precipitates a need for new tools to help people cope...
The huge growth of e-commerce has had a profound impact on users who can now choose from a vast numb...
With the emergence and omnipresence of e-commerce on the internet, online purchasing assistants and ...
As the amount of information available to online consumers has grown, so has the need for tools to h...
Agent-based systems simplify user access to the many global virtual enterprises now arriving on the ...
With the emergence and omnipresence of e-commerce on the internet, online purchasing assistants and ...
The World- Wide- Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is prese...
There are two kinds of information-seekers currently wandering the World-Wide Web. First there are u...
Despite high expectations, shopbots have yet to significantly facilitate a richer, more satisfying o...
E-shops are among the most conventional applications of Electronic Commerce. In these shops, the buy...
Many people are buying music CDs over the Web, but with multiple retail sites offering the same CDs,...
The more than enthusiastic success obtained by e-commerce and the continuous growth of the WWW has r...
We present and evaluate an infrastructure with which to rapidly and easily build intelligent softwar...
In this paper, we discuss the various issues in designing intelligent software systems to assist wor...
We present and evaluate an implemented system with which to rapidly and easily build intelligent sof...
The current exponential growth of the Internet precipitates a need for new tools to help people cope...
The huge growth of e-commerce has had a profound impact on users who can now choose from a vast numb...
With the emergence and omnipresence of e-commerce on the internet, online purchasing assistants and ...
As the amount of information available to online consumers has grown, so has the need for tools to h...
Agent-based systems simplify user access to the many global virtual enterprises now arriving on the ...
With the emergence and omnipresence of e-commerce on the internet, online purchasing assistants and ...