{"title":"Utilization of intelligent agents for supporting citizens in their access to e-government services","authors":"P. D. Meo, G. Quattrone, G. Terracina, D. Ursino","doi":"10.5555/1377776.1377779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/1377776.1377779","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims at studying the utilization of Intelligent Agents for supporting citizens to access e-government services. For this purpose, it proposes a multi-agent system capable of suggesting to the citizens the most interesting services for them; these suggestions are determined by considering both their needs/preferences and the capabilities of the devices used by them. The paper first describes the proposed system and, then, reports various experimental results. Finally, it presents a comparison between the proposed system and other related ones already presented in the literature.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127501948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Context-sensitive text mining and belief revision for intelligent information retrieval on the web","authors":"Raymond Y. K. Lau","doi":"10.5555/1016416.1016417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/1016416.1016417","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomous information agents alleviate the information overload problem on the Internet. The AGM belief revision framework provides a rigorous formal foundation to develop adaptive information agents. The expressive power of the belief revision logic allows information seekers' changing information preferences and the underlying retrieval contexts to be captured in information agents. By exploiting the relevant retrieval contexts, information agents can proactively recommend interesting information items to their users. Contextual knowledge for information retrieval can be acquired by information agents via context-sensitive text mining. The induction power brought by context-sensitive text mining and the nonmonotonic reasoning capability offered by a belief revision system are complementary to each other. This paper illustrates a novel approach of integrating the proposed text mining method into the belief revision based adaptive information agents to improve the agents' learning autonomy and prediction power. Our initial experiments show that the symbolic adaptive information agents outperform their vector space model based counterparts.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125473996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Composite match autocompletion (COMMA): A semantic result-oriented autocompletion technique for e-marketplaces","authors":"R. Porrini, M. Palmonari, Giuseppe Vizzari","doi":"10.3233/WIA-140284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-140284","url":null,"abstract":"Autocompletion systems support users in the formulation of queries in different situations, from development environments to the web. In this paper we describe Composite Match Autocompletion COMMA, a lightweight approach to the introduction of semantics in the realization of a semi-structured data autocompletion matching algorithm. The approach is formally described, then it is applied and evaluated with specific reference to the e-commerce context. The semantic extension to the matching algorithm exploits available information about product categories and distinguishing features of products to enhance the elaboration of exploratory queries. COMMA supports a seamless management of both targeted/precise queries and exploratory/vague ones, combining different filtering and scoring techniques. The algorithm is evaluated with respect both to effectiveness and efficiency in a real-world scenario: the achieved improvement is significant and it is not associated to a sensible increase of computational costs.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115773234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating the size and evolution of categorised topics in web directories","authors":"I. Anagnostopoulos, C. Anagnostopoulos","doi":"10.3233/WIA-2010-0179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-2010-0179","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a statistical approach for estimating the evolution of categorized web page populations in web directories is proposed. The proposal is based on the capture-recapture method used in wildlife biological studies and it is modified according to the necessary assumptions and amendments for conducting the experiments on the web. During these experiments, web pages are likened to animals and the specific categories of web pages are likened to particular species of animals whose abundance, birth and survival rates are estimated. The capture-recapture model followed is a model that allows us to consider the populations under study as open. Thus, in the course of time the population evolves, meaning that new web pages are inserted in the study, while others are removed or become inactive, resembling the natural processes of migration or death. Artificial intelligence classifiers, capable of categorizing web pages, play the role of the biologists who recognize the species under study. In our work, four different simulations were conducted in order to evaluate the robustness of the model followed on the web paradigm, based on four different real classification cases. The paper provides the implementation details of our proposed web-based capture-recapture model, along with its initial assessment.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120997708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing Web Intelligence for communities","authors":"L. Vercouter, P. Maret","doi":"10.3233/WIA-2012-0233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-2012-0233","url":null,"abstract":"The field of Web Intelligence has grown quickly in the last decade as a crossroads between the re- searches in Arti cial Intelligence and the development of the web. In this eld, communities appear as a rst-class object as is found in many diverse web applications. The most popular and well known examples are social network sites for entertainement. But their success should not hide other application domains where the concept of communities is central. Education, healthcare, design, knowledge management or virtual enterprises are other domains in which communities appear and require technological support. The contribution of web technologies is obvious as the intrisic nature of the web is precisely to provide and support links between individuals. Research works related to these technologies, especially web intel- ligence, provide then innovative approaches and contributions to every step of the lifecycle of a community supported by the web.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115202335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel R. Karrels, Gilbert L. Peterson, B. Mullins
{"title":"Large-scale cooperative task distribution on peer-to-peer networks","authors":"Daniel R. Karrels, Gilbert L. Peterson, B. Mullins","doi":"10.3233/WIA-130263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-130263","url":null,"abstract":"Large-scale systems are part of a growing trend in distributed computing, and coordinating control of them is an increasing challenge. This paper presents a cooperative agent system that scales to one million or more nodes in which agents form coalitions to complete global task objectives. This approach uses the large-scale Command and Control C2 capabilities of the Resource Clustered Chord RC-Chord Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer HP2P design. Tasks are submitted that require access to processing, data, or hardware resources, and a distributed agent search is performed to recruit agents to satisfy the distributed task. This approach differs from others by incorporating design elements to accommodate large-scale systems into the resource location algorithm. Peersim simulations demonstrate that the distributed coalition formation algorithm is as effective as an omnipotent central algorithm in a one million agent system.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116026116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving cognitive agent decision making: Experience trajectories as plans","authors":"J. Pfau, Samin Karim, M. Kirley, L. Sonenberg","doi":"10.3233/WIA-140296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-140296","url":null,"abstract":"In task environments with large state and action spaces, the use of temporal and state abstraction can potentially improve the decision making performance of agents. However, existing approaches within a reinforcement learning framework typically identify possible subgoal states and instantly learn stochastic subpolicies to reach them from other states. In these circumstances, exploration of the reinforcement learner is unfavorably biased towards local behavior around these subgoals; temporal abstractions are not exploited to reduce required deliberation; and the benefit of employing temporal abstractions is conflated with the benefit of additional learning done to define subpolicies. In this paper, we consider a cognitive agent architecture that allows for the extraction and reuse of temporal abstractions in the form of experience trajectories from a bottom-level reinforcement learning module and a top-level module based on the BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) model. Here, the reuse of trajectories depends on the situation in which their recording was started. We investigate the efficacy of our approach using two well-known domains – the pursuit and the taxi domains. Detailed simulation experiments demonstrate that the use of experience trajectories as plans acquired at runtime can reduce the amount of decision making without significantly affecting asymptotic performance. The combination of temporal and state abstraction leads to improved performance during the initial learning of the reinforcement learner. Our approach can significantly reduce the number of deliberations required.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128676971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting personality traits of microblog users","authors":"Shuotian Bai, Sha Yuan, Bibo Hao, T. Zhu","doi":"10.3233/WIA-140295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-140295","url":null,"abstract":"Personality can be defined as a set of characteristics which makes a person unique. Psychological theory suggests that people’s behavior is a reflection of personality. Therefore, it is feasible to predict personality through behavior. Conventional personality assessment is performed by self-report inventory. Participants need to fill in a tedious inventory to get their personality scores. In the large-scale investigation, every returned inventory needs manual computation, which costs much manual efforts and cannot be done in real time. In order to avoid these shortages, this research aims to objectively predict the Big-Five personality from the usage records of Sina Microblog. Since its initial launch in December, 2005, Sina Microblog has been the leading microblogging service provider in China. Millions of users upload and download resources via microblogging status everyday. Therefore, by conducting an online user survey of 444 active users, this paper analyzes the relation modes between personality and online behavior. Furthermore, this research proposes multi-task regression and incremental regression to predict the BigFive personality from online behaviors. The results indicate that correlation factors are significant between different personality dimensions. Besides, our training data set is reliable enough and multi-task regression performs better than other modeling algorithms.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129655052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collective iterative allocation: Enabling fast and optimal group decision makingThe role of group knowledge, optimism, and decision policies in distributed coordination","authors":"Christian Guttmann, M. Georgeff, Iyad Rahwan","doi":"10.3233/WIA-2010-0177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-2010-0177","url":null,"abstract":"A major challenge in the field of Multi-Agent Systems is to enable autonomous agents to allocate tasks efficiently. This paper extends previous work on an approach to the collective iterative allocation problem where a group of agents endeavours to find the best allocations possible through refinements of these allocations over time. For each iteration, each agent proposes an allocation based on its model of the problem domain, then one of the proposed allocations is selected and executed which enables us to assess if subsequent allocations should be refined. We offer an efficient algorithm capturing this process, and then report on theoretical and empirical results that analyse the role of three conditions in the performance of the algorithm: accuracy of agents' estimations of the performance of a task, the degree of optimism, and the type of group decision policy that determines which allocation is selected after each proposal phase.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114524566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fuzzy neural Web agents for efficient NBA scouting","authors":"M. Atlas, Yanqing Zhang","doi":"10.3233/WIA-2008-0128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-2008-0128","url":null,"abstract":"The intelligent agents are very useful for World Wide Web applications. Intelligent agents are designed and implemented for a variety of tasks in diverse range of applications: managing e-mail, navigating and retrieving information from the Internet, online shopping, electronic business, monitoring stock prices or currency exchanges, etc. In this paper, we present and describe an intelligent service agent that assists an NBA scouting agent in his/her work. The particularity of our agent is that it not only retrieves relevant information about NBA players from the Internet for the scouting agent but also derives metadata from that information, which consist of player performance evaluation and player statistics prediction.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132755938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}