چکیده:
The aim of this study is to discuss and critically review the Intelligent Agents (IA) and their recent developments. The report will particularly focus on ihe area of Intelligent Agents and information retrieval and how lhis technology is aiding users of databases. This report commences with a discussion of what I ntell igent Agents are and it reviews the qualities they are generally expected to have and settles on the definition of an intelligent agent as a software entity. IA possess basic qualities such as autonomy, co-operation and learning. Then the report critiques the current state of IA technology by examining the technological, social, ethical and some of the legal issues. It fitrther examines the implications of this technology for the reason that computer and information professionals have already recognised that there are a number of problems and issues surrounding the IA terminology and technology which must be resolved as soon as possible in order to acquire the utmost benefit from this technology. Although the Agents offer substantial advantage to users, the very nature of the IA paradigm leads to a number of ethical, social, technical and lcgal problems, common to all agent-based applications.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The report will particularly focus on ihe area of Intelligent Agents and information retrieval and how lhis technology is aiding users of databases.
Although the Agents offer substantial advantage to users, the very nature of the IA paradigm leads to a number of ethical, social, technical and lcgal problems, common to all agent-based applications.
Hedger [11] says Intelligent Agents have a limited ability to take over human tasks and interact with people in human-like ways.
For example they may communicate with the user, system resources and other agents as required in order to perform their tasks.
Belfourd and Furner [1] suggest that as a radical solution to the problem of information overload, IAs are smarter than average search tools for two reasons: n An IA acts with autonomy by making decisions on the basis of data it acquires about environment, rather than as a result of direct instruction from the user.
[I 1] Nevertheless, a number of web Intelligent Agents can be identified in the field of web technology, for example, Web Interfaces: this creates a buffer between user and Web to alleviate the necessity of performing low-level searching tasks.
Even if the Intelligent Agents have already given the explosion of information accessible on the Internet, it also presents an interesting problem.
The problem is that if many users have news searching Intelligent Agent tools constantly searching for information on the internet, is it not likely that the internet may be clogged up by too many of these searching tools?