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Contents
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Introduction
The Internet and Information Acquisition
Purpose of the Research
Research Questions
Research Methods
Thesis Plan
News Agents and the Internet
Definition of an Agent
Autonomy
Personalisability
Communication
Delegation
Domain
Graceful Degradation
Cooperation
Anthropomorphism
Expectations
Types of Agents
Autonomous Agents
Symbolic and Cooperative Agents
Anthropomorphic Agents
Multi-agent Systems
Difference Between Internet Search Agents and Search Engines
Agents and Reasoning
Expert Systems
Forward Chaining
Backward Chaining
Breath First Searching
Depth First Searching
Advantages and Disadvantages to Expert Systems
Non Monotonic and Inexact Reasoning
Key components in Inexact Reasoning
Sources of Noise
Fuzzy Logic
Agents and the Internet
Information and Newsgroups
Examples of News Filtering Agents
NewT
INFOS (Intelligent News Filtering Organisational System)
Summary
A Framework for Building News Filtering Agents
Agent's NNTP Client
Client Interface
User's NNTP Client
Dialog Based Feedback
Expert System Filtering for an Agent
Agent Learning and Updating the Rulebase
Database of Matching Articles
Inter-agent Communication
Inter-agent Communication Language for Agents
General Syntax
Send
Get
Example of Agent Interaction
Agent to Agent Coordinator Interaction
Retrieving Articles from the Database
Communicating with other Agents
Agent to World Interaction
Implementation of NFACT (News Filtering Agent Communication Tool) Example
The Design of the News Agent
Agent's NNTP Client
Client Interface
Before Retrieval
After Retrieval
User's NNTP Client
Dialog Based Feedback
Expert System Filtering for an Agent
The Rete Algorithm
Communication With Other User's Agents
Database of Matching Articles
Implementation Issues
Results from the implementation of NFACT
Testing Strategy
Methodology
Conclusion and Future Work
Agent Model
Future Research
Security (Scope of Access to Articles)
Socket Sharing for Agent Coordinators
Implementation and Testing of the Agent Learning Facility
Implementation and Testing of Agent Communication
Bibliography
The Internet
Internet News
Other Internet Services
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
Telnet
Gopher
Archie
The World Wide Web (WWW)
Internet News
Design of NNTP
Responses from the Server
Example of a Client Server Interaction
About this document ...
Daryl Moulder
1998-10-30
