A taxonomy of web agents

Author

Huang, Zhisheng ; Eliens, Anton ; Van Ballegooij, Alev ; de Bra, P.

Author_Institution

Free Univ., Amsterdam, Netherlands

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

765

Lastpage

769

Abstract

We propose a taxonomy of Web agents, which encompasses agents that provide a text-based interface to, for example, information retrieval services as well as avatar-embodied guides that help visitors to navigate in virtual environments. Our taxonomy must be regarded as an instrument to delineate targets for research and the realization of prototype applications that demonstrate the usefulness of agent-based intelligence on the Web. In addition, we deploy our agent-taxonomy to establish the implications particular target applications have with respect to software architecture and computational resources

Keywords

information resources; information retrieval; online front-ends; software agents; virtual reality; Web agent taxonomy; agent-based intelligence; avatar-embodied guides; computational resources; information retrieval services; software architecture; text-based interface; virtual environment navigation; Application software; Computational intelligence; Information retrieval; Instruments; Intelligent agent; Navigation; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Taxonomy; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2000. Proceedings. 11th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1529-4188

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0680-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.2000.875111

Filename

875111