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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.
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Situ, Q., Stroulia, E. (2000). Task-Structure Based Mediation: The Travel-Planning Assistant Example. In: Hamilton, H.J. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1822. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45486-1_34
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