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Exploiting the Ontological Qualities of Web Resources: Task-Driven Agents Structure Knowledge for Problem Solving

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Cooperative Information Agents IV - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace (CIA 2000)

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There are structured and semi-structured sources of knowledge on the Web that present implicit or explicit ontologies of domains. Knowledge level models have a role to play in structuring and extracting useful and focused problem solving knowledge from these Web sources. The IMPS (Internet-based Multi-agent Problem Solving) architecture described here is an agent-based architecture driven by knowledge level models. It is designed to facilitate the retrieval, restructuring, integration and formalization of problem solving knowledge from the Web. This research draws on models of agency particularly suited to supporting the functionality required of a system like IMPS.

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  1. Artificial Intelligence Group, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K.

    Louise Crow

  2. Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ

    Nigel Shadbolt

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  1. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  2. E-Center for E-Business and Department of Computer Science Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

    Larry Kerschberg

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Crow, L., Shadbolt, N. (2000). Exploiting the Ontological Qualities of Web Resources: Task-Driven Agents Structure Knowledge for Problem Solving. In: Klusch, M., Kerschberg, L. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents IV - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace. CIA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1860. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45012-2_20

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