Infusing adaptability, autonomy and cooperation into an information visualisation system

Abstract

Information visualization has been formalised as a continuous process of displaying information on computers. Information visualization systems used today are comprised of control and learning processes, however, they suffer from the incapability to automated job completion at the right time. Intelligent agents and multi-agent techniques have been employed to solve the real problem in which the adaptability and autonomy are essential. Most obvious application domains include database access via the Web, management of a computer network such as the Internet, electronic commerce, and industrial automation and control. This paper proposes an intelligent agents and a multi-agent system to model information visualization. The proposed techniques extend existing object-oriented representation techniques. The approach used provides a conceptual framework to guide system design and specification.