Software Agents for Data Management

Data mining

“…Agent ‐ based approaches (Mattox, 1998) are software applications programmed to investigate and collect data on their own. These intelligent agents prowl the Internet relying on user profiles (Joshi, 1999; Joshi, Joshi, Yesha, & Krishnapuram, 1999), user‐supplied information about the subject (e.g., medical data, Kargupta, Hamzaoglu, & Stafford, 1997a), and document types of interest.…”

Tools for the knowledge analyst: an information superiority visionary demonstration

“…To accelerate our efforts, because our local experts are away, we would like to identify corporate experts in chemical weapons and pull them into our task via a desktop collaboration. We fire up MITRE'S PeopleFinder [9] and search on "chemical" as shown in Figure 7. PeopleFinder ranks employees by the number of mentions of a term or phrase and its statistical association with the employee name either in corporate communications (e.g.…”