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Interface agents: A review of the field

Interface agents: A review of the field
Interface agents: A review of the field
This paper reviews the origins of interface agents, discusses challenges that exist within the interface agent field and presents a survey of current attempts to find solutions to these challenges. A history of agent systems from their birth in the 1960s to the current day is described, along with the issues they try to address. A taxonomy of interface agent systems is presented, and today's agent systems categorized accordingly. Lastly, an analysis of the machine learning and user modelling techniques used by today's agents is presented.
0854327320
University of Southampton
Middleton, Stuart
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Middleton, Stuart
404b62ba-d77e-476b-9775-32645b04473f

Middleton, Stuart (2001) Interface agents: A review of the field University of Southampton

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This paper reviews the origins of interface agents, discusses challenges that exist within the interface agent field and presents a survey of current attempts to find solutions to these challenges. A history of agent systems from their birth in the 1960s to the current day is described, along with the issues they try to address. A taxonomy of interface agent systems is presented, and today's agent systems categorized accordingly. Lastly, an analysis of the machine learning and user modelling techniques used by today's agents is presented.

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Published date: August 2001
Additional Information: Address: IAM group, ECS
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science, IT Innovation

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Local EPrints ID: 256280
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/256280
ISBN: 0854327320
PURE UUID: 3dac28af-5e2c-4a40-a953-ee7ec67ee976
ORCID for Stuart Middleton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8305-8176

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Date deposited: 21 Jan 2002
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:08

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