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Haverkamp, Donna S.; Gauch, Susan – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Discusses intelligent user interfaces, through which a user may query for information; explains the different types of intelligent online search assistants, or agents, which are used to support these interfaces. Describes several different agent systems. Concludes by discussing the current state of agents in information retrieval, especially as…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Interfaces, Information Retrieval, Information Sources
Budzik, Jay; Hammond, Kristian; Marlow, Cameron; Scheinkman, Andrei – 1998
This paper outlines work on a class of systems called Personal Information Management Assistants (PIMAs). PIMAs observe user interaction with everyday applications and use these observations to anticipate a user's information needs. They then automatically fulfill these needs by accessing Internet information sources, filtering the results, and…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Information Management
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Chen, Hsinchun; Chung, Yi-Ming; Ramsey, Marshall; Yang, Christopher C. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
This study tested two Web personal spiders (i.e., agents that take users' requests and perform real-time customized searches) based on best first-search and genetic-algorithm techniques. Both results were comparable and complementary, although the genetic algorithm obtained higher recall value. The Java-based interface was found to be necessary…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Interfaces, Computer Software Evaluation