Integrated information retrieval in a knowledge worker support system
SIGIR '89 Proceedings of the 12th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An intelligent agent community approach to knowledge sharing
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: intelligent agents as a basis for decision support systems
Designing behaviors for information agents
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
WebMate: a personal agent for browsing and searching
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Knowledge Sharing Agents Over the World Wide Web
BT Technology Journal
A Spectrum of Modes of Knowledge Sharing between Agents
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
Knowledge portals and the emerging digital knowledge workplace
IBM Systems Journal
Implicit: an agent-based recommendation system for web search
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series)
The Knowledge Grid
Introduction to special issue on contextual information retrieval systems
Information Retrieval
Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information
Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information
Cognitive agents for understanding the complexities involved in web-based knowledge-gathering tasks
SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
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A goal of user assisting agents is to provide effective assistance to their users in their tasks. The problem becomes challenging when the users are involved in a cognitive activity such as a knowledge gathering task through the web, and when the agents cannot clearly know the task of their users in advance. The challenge grows when the agent themselves do not possess the knowledge required for such tasks. It is in this scenario that we propose a socio-contextual model of knowledge sharing within a community of user assisting agents, provided through the environment of an open domain knowledge portal, which are used by the users for their web based knowledge gathering tasks. The agents involve themselves in a knowledge sharing exercise by implementing the socio-contextual model that may allow each agent to gain knowledge about a task of their interest from other fellow agents through which they can assist their respective users. We evaluate our model through an experiment involving many knowledge gathering tasks from diverse domains and the results indicate interesting implications of the model with respect to the agents, their tasks and their community.