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'The merits of Intelligent Agents for retrieving electronic documents from the Internet.'
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REPORT: 'THE MERITS OF INTELLIGENT AGENTS FOR RETRIEVING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS FROM THE INTERNET.' When the Internet was introduced to the general public, a wealth of information was also opened to them. For anyone using the Internet, finding the exact information that they required was a lot harder to do than it is now. The main reason for this is the use of search engines that look through the electronic documentation that is on the Internet and return to the user documents that contain the keywords that the user had previously inputted into the search engine. Intelligent information agents carry out these searches. Intelligent agents can be defined as: "An autonomous, computational software entity that has access to one or more, heterogeneous and geographically distributed information sources, and which pro-actively acquires, mediates, and maintains relevant information on behalf of users or other agents" In short agents are tools that...
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