BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering Agent

Effective information gathering on the WWW is a complex task requiring planning, scheduling, text processing, and interpretation-style reasoning about extracted data to resolve inconsistencies and to refine hypotheses about the data. This paper describes the rationale, architecture, and implementation of a next generation information gathering system

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Victor R. Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, Xiaoqin Zhang
• Keywords: AAAI 1998, Information Gathering, Information Gathering Coordination, Information Sources, Intelligent Agents