Title : 
Applications of agent technique on GIS
         
        
            Author : 
Qi Li ; Xiaobin, Huang ; Shaoyan, Wu
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inst. of Remote Sensing & GIS, Peking Univ., Beijing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Based on the introduction of the concept and behavior of an agent, several kinds of agent techniques are expatriated in this paper, including mobile agent, assemble-on-demand agent, wrapper agent, and geoagent. The meaning and potential applications of these agent techniques in GIS fields are discussed
         
        
            Keywords : 
geographic information systems; software agents; visual databases; GIS; assemble-on-demand agent; geoagent; geographic information systems; mobile agent; software agents; wrapper agent; Assembly; Communication system control; Distributed computing; Geographic Information Systems; Humans; Information technology; Intelligent agent; Mobile agents; Paper technology; Remote sensing;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Info-tech and Info-net, 2001. Proceedings. ICII 2001 - Beijing. 2001 International Conferences on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Beijing
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-7010-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICII.2001.982752