Active Information Gathering in InfoSleuth.
Published 1 January 1999
Marian Nodine, J Fowler, Brad Perry
Citations135
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InfoSleuth is an agent-based system that can be configured to perform many different information management activities in a distributed environment and has been used in numerous applications, including the Environmental Data Exchange Network and the Competitive Intelligence System.
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InfoSleuth is an agent-based system that can be configured to perform many di#erent information management activities in a distributed environment. InfoSleuth TM agents provide a number of complex query services that require resolving ontology-based queries over dynamically changing, distributed, heterogeneous resources. These include distributed query processing, locationindependent single-resource updates, event and information monitoring, statistical or inferential data analysis, and trend discovery in complex event streams. It has been used in numerous applications, including the Environmental Data Exchange Network and the Competitive Intelligence System. Keywords: Multi-agent systems, agent-based systems, information agents, heterogeneous data, query processing, information subscription. 1. Introduction In the past 15-20 years, numerous products and prototypes have regularly appeared to provide uniform access to heterogeneous data sources. As a result, that access to...
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