AI and navigation on the Internet and Intranet

Author

O´Leary, Daniel E.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

11

Issue

2

fYear

1996

fDate

4/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Recent research has focused on using AI to harness the World Wide Web. Although intelligent agents are one of the most visible uses of AI on the WWW, substantial hype surrounds such usage. Oren Etzioni and Daniel Weld (1995) analyze the fact, fiction, and forecast of intelligent agents on the WWW and distinguish between the hype and the reality. The analysis summarizes some of the work discussed and demonstrated at the Fall Symposium on AI Applications in Knowledge Navigation and Retrieval, sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. In addition, the analysis investigates subsequent and related research in this rapidly changing field. Finally, I investigate some of the implications of these recent developments and isolate some gaps in the current research. I give particular attention to the impact of such systems on issues such as privacy and electronic commerce

Keywords

Internet; business data processing; data privacy; expert systems; information retrieval; software agents; AI; Internet; Intranet; World Wide Web; electronic commerce; intelligent agents; knowledge navigation; knowledge retrieval; privacy; Artificial intelligence; Intelligent agent; Internet; Metasearch; Microcomputers; Navigation; Robotics and automation; Search engines; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

IEEE Expert

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-9000

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/64.491309

Filename

491309