Agents in Networked Information Retrieval

Jacek Skowronek (skow@cs.utwente.nl)
Fri, 19 Aug 94 07:57:17 PDT

This is my first posting here. I read the recent CACM issue on Agent-Oriented
Computing (also the softbot article) and I was wondering whether
there was any active research on the usage of agents in Networked
Information Retrieval. Is this "mainstream" agent research?
This area has a lot common with Information Retrieval, but I don't know
of any groups which investigate their interconnection. Does any of the
readers known something about such research?

I am also very interested into application of agent research in other areas,
for
example databases. Are there any groups concerned with such activities?
In the database area, the query optimization springs to mind as a possible
application area. Is this done/possible?

Jacek

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