Software agents
Agent technology: foundations, applications, and markets
Agent technology: foundations, applications, and markets
Readings in agents
Just-in-time information retrieval agents
IBM Systems Journal
Intelligent Decision-making Support Systems: Foundations, Applications and Challenges (Decision Engineering)
Aided search strategy enabled by decision support
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Artificial intelligence for decision making
KES'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part II
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Information retrieval (IR) is challenging for a non-expert who operates in a technical area such as medical terminology. Since IR is essentially a decision making process, experience with the design of intelligent decision support systems is relevant. Intelligent agents can assist the user during decision making, and, by extension, in IR to locate the desired information. This paper presents an extension to an IR system for a medical application in which the user lacks the descriptive vocabulary needed to retrieve the resources. Agents continuously seek information on behalf of the user and are autonomous, proactive, communicative, mobile, goal-driven and persistent in order to retrieve information on behalf of the user.