Title
Intelligent Pages Collecting Shop and Service Information with Software Agents
Abstract
This article introduces an information collecting method for shop and service information from the Internet. Because the shop information is heterogeneous and distributed it is difficult for users to gather and handle it. Although it is heterogeneous, it cart be semistructured insofar as it usually has a name, address, etc. The introduce the telephone directory information as an ontology server that defines relationships between the user's abstract expression of shops and the concrete expression, such as shop names. We designed a software agent architecture. Agents work together to support creating queries for users, to search and locate the information providers, and to organize the search results on behalf of the user. We applied this architecture to the Intelligent Pages and developed it on portable computers, a UNIX workstation, and Internet servers, including the telephone directory server we also developed. Intelligent Pages lists shops from the Yellow Pages with additional information from other sources. The advantage of this method is that it produces precise and well-organized information.
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1080/088395197118037
APPLIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
software agent
Data mining,Ontology,World Wide Web,Architecture,Internet servers,Directory,Computer science,Information providers,Software agent,The Internet,Directory service
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
6
0883-9514
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
1.11
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Katsumi Takahashi1255.02
Yoshiyasu Nishibe2136.13
Ichiro Morihara3136.13
Fumio Hattori416426.81