An Architecture for Automated Information Retrieval

Intelligent Agents in Cyberspace

Volume

Papers from the 1999 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

Mobile agent technology can be employed to do automated information retrieval. But there are not many practical models available on how a system of interacting agents and services can be organized. This paper introduces the architecture that is used in the FollowMe pilot applications to establish a system of agents, service providers and contents providers to assist the user in his information management.