Title
YouBot: a simple framework for building virtual networking agents
Abstract
This paper proposes a simple framework for building 'virtual networking agents'; programs that can communicate with users and collect information through the internet. These virtual agents can also communicate with each other to share information that one agent does not have. The framework - 'YouBot' - provides basic functions such as protocol handling, authentication, and data storage. The behavior of the virtual agents is defined by a task processor ('TP') which can be written in a light-weight language such as JavaScript. It is very easy to add new functions to a virtual agent. The last part of this paper discusses the micro-blog system 'twitter' and other web services as information sources that a virtual agent can utilise to make its behavior more suited to the user.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
SIGDIAL Conference
virtual agent,information source,micro-blog system,virtual networking agent,basic function,light-weight language,last part,data storage,share information,simple framework
Field
DocType
Citations 
World Wide Web,Authentication,Virtual agent,Computer science,Computer data storage,Web service,Multimedia,JavaScript,The Internet
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Seiji Takegata101.01
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii226136.69