A softbot-based interface to the Internet
Communications of the ACM
Learning to Understand Information on the Internet: AnExample-Based Approach
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue: next generation information technologies and systems
Designing behaviors for information agents
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Modeling Web sources for information integration
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Generating finite-state transducers for semi-structured data extraction from the Web
Information Systems - Special issue on semistructured data
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on Intelligent internet systems
Flexible and scalable cost-based query planning in mediators: a transformational approach
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on Intelligent internet systems
Data integration using similarity joins and a word-based information representation language
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Learning object identification rules for information integration
Information Systems - Data extraction, cleaning and reconciliation
Logic-based techniques in data integration
Logic-based artificial intelligence
Compiling Source Descriptions for Efficient and Flexible Information Integration
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
World Wide Web
Hierarchical Wrapper Induction for Semistructured Information Sources
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Electric Elves: Applying Agent Technology to Support Human Organizations
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference
RoadRunner: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web
ISWC '02 Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web
Selective Sampling with Redundant Views
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
The TheaterLoc Virtual Application
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
An XML query engine for network-bound data
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Interactive deduplication using active learning
Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Learning domain-independent string transformation weights for high accuracy object identification
Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Getting from here to there: interactive planning and agent execution for optimizing travel
Eighteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence
Wrapper induction for information extraction
Wrapper induction for information extraction
Query planning and optimization in information integration
Query planning and optimization in information integration
Accurately and reliably extracting data from the Web: a machine learning approach
Intelligent exploration of the web
Active learning with multiple views
Active learning with multiple views
Wrapper maintenance: a machine learning approach
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Active learning with strong and weak views: a case study on wrapper induction
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Moving up the information food chain: deploying softbots on the world wide web
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Learning to optimize plan execution in information agents
ICCBR'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development
Functional composition of web databases
ICADL'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Asian Digital Libraries: achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
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The information resources on the Web are vast, but much of the Web is based on a browsing paradigm that requires someone to actively seek information. Instead, one would like to have information agents that continuously attend to one's personal information needs. Such agents need to be able to extract the relevant information from web sources, integrate data across sites, and execute efficiently in a networked environment. In this paper I describe the technologies we have developed to rapidly construct and deploy information agents on the Web. This includes wrapper learning to convert online sources into agent-friendly resources, query planning and record linkage to integrate data across different sites, and streaming dataflow execution to efficiently execute agent plans. I also describe how we applied this work within the Electric Elves project to deploy a set of agents for continuous monitoring of travel itineraries.