Mediation in information systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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
A hierarchical approach to wrapper induction
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
XML-based information mediation with MIX
SIGMOD '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
The Conceptual Basis for Mediation Services
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Task-Structures, Knowledge Acquisition and Learning
Machine Learning
Looking at the Web through XML Glasses
COOPIS '99 Proceedings of the Fourth IECIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
Wrapper induction for information extraction
Wrapper induction for information extraction
A model-based approach to blame assignment: revising the reasoning steps of problem solvers
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Babel: An XML-Based Application Integration Framework
CAiSE '02 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
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As the number of applications available on the World Wide Web (WEB) increases at a rapid speed, an enormous number of resources become available to the general public. These resources offer information and services in a variety of domains but are often difficult to use due to their idiosyncratic domain and interaction models. In this paper, we discuss a multi-agent architecture for integration of WEB applications within a domain, based on a task-structure approach. The architecture consists of a set of wrapper agents, driving and extracting information from a set of corresponding WEB applications, and a mediator agent, whose task structure drives both its interaction with the users and its communication with the wrappers. We illustrate this architecture with the description of a travel-planning assistant that supports the users in an exploratory, least-commitment search behavior.