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  title info:
    title: Agent services
  name:
    name part: Sanchez, Jose Alfredo
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 119 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: Agents recently have gained enormous popularity both in
  abstract: computer science research and in the software industry.
  abstract: Although the research projects addressing agency issues are
  abstract: legion, a precise and generally accepted definition of agent
  abstract: has yet to emerge. Based on an extensive survey of the
  abstract: field, this dissertation presents a taxonomy of agents that
  abstract: provides a high-level perspective of the existing views on
  abstract: agency and their inter-relationships. The three classes of
  abstract: agents on the first level of this taxonomy, each
  abstract: corresponding to a major view, are programmer agents, network
  abstract: agents and user agents. The motivations, characteristics,
  abstract: applications and underlying theories for each class are
  abstract: discussed. The class of user agents, which constitutes the
  abstract: main theme of the dissertation, is further elaborated. User
  abstract: agent subclasses and a framework for characterization of
  abstract: commonly used techniques employed in user agent
  abstract: implementation are presented. Agents that perform tasks on
  abstract: behalf of the user have great potential for assisting users
  abstract: in coping with large, complex, and dynamic information spaces
  abstract: such as digital libraries. This dissertation also presents
  abstract: AGS, an open architecture designed to provide agent services
  abstract: to participants of digital libraries. In AGS, specific user
  abstract: agent functionality is defined collaboratively by librarians,
  abstract: who are experts in the organization of digital library
  abstract: resources, and subscribed end users (or digital library
  abstract: patrons), who determine what library resources are of
  abstract: interest. Users delegate tasks to, visualize, and control
  abstract: agents in multiple libraries via a uniform interface. The
  abstract: design of AGS strongly fosters agent control by the user,
  abstract: provides extensible agent functionality, and utilizes readily
  abstract: available technologies in the construction of an environment
  abstract: that actively cooperates with the user in taking advantage of
  abstract: information resources. AGS enhances current views on
  abstract: services to be enabled by digital libraries and offers a much
  abstract: needed testbed for the investigation of issues in the
  abstract: development, deployment and use of agents as the basis for a
  abstract: human-computer interaction paradigm.
  note: by Jose Alfredo Sanchez.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Computer Science".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc.
  note: Includes bibliographical references: pages 98-111.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 1996.
  subject:
    topic: Major computer science
  identifier: 97-01711 UMI
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    record creation date: 970512
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