BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR96-255
ENTRY:: January 09, 1996
ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science
TITLE:: Information retrieval, information structure, and information agents
TYPE:: Technical Report (paper)
REVISION:: 1
AUTHOR:: Rus, Daniela
AUTHOR:: Subramanian, Devika
DATE:: January 1996
ABSTRACT:: 
This paper presents a customizable architecture
for software agents that capture and access information in large,
heterogeneous, distributed electronic repositories.  The key idea is
to exploit underlying structure at various levels of granularity
to build high-level indices with task-specific interpretations.
Information agents construct such indices and are configured as a
network of reusable modules called structure detectors and segmenters.
We illustrate our architecture  with the design and implementation of
smart information filters in two contexts: retrieving stock market
data from Internet newsgroups, and retrieving technical reports from
Internet ftp sites.
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email <reports@cs.dartmouth.edu>
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to
       Technical Report Librarian
       Department of Computer Science
       Dartmouth College
       6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
       Hanover, NH 03755-3510
       USA
RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR96-255.pdf
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