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Design Issues for Agent-Based Resource Locator Systems

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While knowledge is viewed by many as an asset, it is often difficult to locate particular items within a large electronic corpus. This paper presents an agent based framework for the location of resources to resolve a specific query, and considers the associated design issue. Aspects of the work presented complements current research into both expertise finders and recommender systems. The essential issues for the proposed design are scalability, together with the ability to learn and adapt to changing resources. As knowledge is often implicit within electronic resources, and therefore difficult to locate, we have proposed the use of ontologies, to extract the semantics and infer meaning to obtain the results required. We explore the use of communities of practice, applying ontology-based networks, and e-mail message exchanges to aid the resource discovery process.

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  1. Intelligence Agents Multimedia Group Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK

    Gary Wills, Harith Alani, Ronald Ashri, Richard Crowder, Yannis Kalfoglou & Sanghee Kim

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Wills, G., Alani, H., Ashri, R., Crowder, R., Kalfoglou, Y., Kim, S. (2002). Design Issues for Agent-Based Resource Locator Systems. In: Karagiannis, D., Reimer, U. (eds) Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management. PAKM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2569. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36277-0_15

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