Agent-based information integration using generated user forms

Nowadays technologies aim at interconnecting plethora of electronic devices and data sources to keep users informed about their field of interest. Automated processing of heterogeneous distributed information is still the challenging task which ranges from enterprise and logistic information systems to rescue and military information systems. In this paper we propose a system for semi-automated information collection and integration, especially focused on seamless human information acquisition. In this sense information integration can be viewed as a multi-stage process where information sources (human and computational) could be spread in different locations and stored in various formats. In order to overcome the problems of information acquisition from distributed heterogeneous sources especially from end users, the agent platform, appropriate agents and methods for semiautomated user forms generation were designed and developed.