Information Gathering from Heterogeneous, Distributed Environments
Papers from the 1995 AAAI Symposium
Craig Knoblock and Alon Levy, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-95-08. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Reconciling Distributed Information Sources / 1
Jose-Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock
WebWatcher: A Learning Apprentice for the World Wide Web / 16
Robert Armstrong, Dayne Freitag, Thorsten Joachims, and Tom Mitchell
Learning Information Retrieval Agents: Experiments with Automated Web Browsing / 13
Marko Balabanovic and Yoav Shoham
The Distributed Agent Architecture of the University of Michigan Digital Library / 19
William P. Birmingham, Edmund H. Durfee, Tracy Mullen, and Michael P. Wellman
Combining Databases and Knowledge Bases for Assisted Browsing / 25
Robin Burke and Kristian J. Hammond
A Declarative Formalization of Knowledge Translation / 30
Sasa Buvac and Richard Fikes
Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery / 34
Winton H. E. Davies and Pete Edwards
A Common Logical Framework to Retrieve Information and Meta Information / 38
Robert Demolombe and Andrew Jones
Approximation and Abstraction Techniques for Generating Concise Answers to Database Queries / 41
Thomas Ellman
Integrating Information Sources Using Context Logic / 47
Adam Farquhar, Angela Dappert, Richard Fikes, and Wanda Pratt
Network-Based Information Brokers / 52
Richard Fikes, Robert Engelmore, Adam Farquhar, and Wanda Pratt
Clustering and Information Sharing in an Ecology of Cooperating Agents / 57
Leonard N. Foner
Integrating and Accessing Heterogeneous Information Sources in TSIMMIS / 61
Hector Garcia-Molina, Joachim Hammer, Kelly Ireland, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Jeffrey Ullman, and Jennifer Widom
Agents Helping Agents: Issues in Sharing How-to Knowledge / 65
Robert J. Hall
FAQ Finder: A Case-Based Approach to Knowledge Navigation / 69
Kristian Hammond, Robin Burke, Charles Martin, and Steven Lytinen
Heuristic Joins to Integrate Structured Heterogeneous Data / 74
Scott B. Huffman and David Steier
Agent Amplified Communication / 78
Henry Kautz, Al Milewski, and Bart Seaman
The Information Manifold / 85
Thomas Kirk, Axon Y. Levy, Yehoshua Sagiv, and Divesh Srivastava
Integrating Planning and Execution for Information Gathering / 92
Craig A. Knoblock
Exploiting Run-Time Information for Efficient Processing of Queries / 99
Craig A. Knoblock and Alon Y. Levy
Learning User Interests Across Heterogeneous Document Databases / 106
Bruce Krulwich
Supporting Information Retrieval via Matchmaking / 111
Daniel Kuokka and Larry Harada
Knowledge Gathering and Matching in Heterogeneous Databases / 116
Wen-Syan Li
Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages / 122
James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou, and Tim Finin
Artificial Life Applied to Adaptive Information Agents / 128
Filippo Menczer, Richard K. Belew, and Wolfram Willuhn
A Distributed Problem Solving Approach to Cooperative Information Gathering / 133
Tim Dates, M. V. Nagendra Prasad, Victor R. Lesser, and Keith Decker
Information Gathering and Distribution in Nomenclator / 138
Joann J. Ordille
Category Translation: Learning to Understand Information on the Internet / 142
Mike Perkowitz and Oren Etzioni
Comparable Datasets in Performance Benchmarking / 149
David Steier
User-Guided Interleaving of Planning and Execution / 153
Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso
Task-based Multi-agent Coordination for Information Gathering / 157
Katia Syeara and Dajun Zeng
Ontology-supported Agent Communication / 160
Hideaki Takeda, Kenji Gino, and Toyoaki Nishida
An Anytime Computation Approach to Information Gathering / 166
Shlomo Zilberstein
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