Information Brokers: Gathering Information from Heterogeneous Information Sources (1996)
| Venue: | PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH FLORIDA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM (FLAIRS ’96), 192–197. ECKERD |
| Citations: | 14 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Fikes96informationbrokers:,
author = {Richard Fikes and Adam Farquhar and Wanda Pratt},
title = {Information Brokers: Gathering Information from Heterogeneous Information Sources},
booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH FLORIDA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM (FLAIRS ’96), 192–197. ECKERD},
year = {1996},
pages = {192--197},
publisher = {Key West}
}
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Abstract
The Internet provides dramatic new opportunities for gathering information from multiple, distributed, heterogeneous information sources. However, this distributed environment poses difficult technical problems for the information-seeking client, including finding the information sources relevant to an interest, formulating questions in the terms that the sources understand, interpreting the retrieved information, and assem - bling the information retrieved from several sources into a coherent answer. In this paper, we describe techniques that will enable vendors and buyers to build and maintain networkbased information brokers capable of retrieving information about services and products via the Internet from multiple vendor catalogs and data bases for both human and computerbased clients.
