出版社：The Editorial Committee of the Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
摘要：The explosion in the amount of electronically available information and the powerful computers at lower cost are causing the computer-for-everybody trend, extending the range of users to non-experts. These phenomena create an information superhighway, which would be difficult to approach without help. Intelligent software agents will provide this necessary help to navigate in the world-wide network of information. In this paper, we survey the current status of agent-based concepts and applications. In particular, we especially review the agent-based information locating systems and present our view of the trends of agent technologies supporting users in finding information on distributed heterogeneous environments.
关键词：Society of Agents;Information Gathering;Distributed Heterogeneous Information Network;Internet
