Information Brokers: Gathering Information from Heterogeneous Information Sources

Citation: Richard Fikes and Adam Farquhar and Wanda Pratt. (1996) Information Brokers: Gathering Information from Heterogeneous Information Sources. In KSL-96-18, 1996.

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author	Richard Fikes and Adam Farquhar and Wanda Pratt
title	Information Brokers: Gathering Information from Heterogeneous Information Sources
number	KSL-96-18
institution	Eckerd College
address	Key West, Florida
year	1996
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abstract	The Internet provides dramatic new opportunities for gathering information from multiple, distributed, heterogeneous information sources. However, this distributed environment poses difficult technical problems for the information-seeking client, including finding the information sources relevant to an interest, formulating questions in the terms that the sources understand, interpreting the retrieved information, and assembling the information retrieved from several sources into a coherent answer. In this paper, we describe techniques that will enable vendors and buyers to build and maintain network-based information brokers capable of retrieving information about services and products via the Internet from multiple vendor catalogs and data bases for both human and computer-based clients.

KSL Technical Report ID: KSL-96-18

Abstract	The Internet provides dramatic new opportu … The Internet provides dramatic new opportunities for gathering information from multiple, distributed, heterogeneous information sources. However, this distributed environment poses difficult technical problems for the information-seeking client, including finding the information sources relevant to an interest, formulating questions in the terms that the sources understand, interpreting the retrieved information, and assembling the information retrieved from several sources into a coherent answer. In this paper, we describe techniques that will enable vendors and buyers to build and maintain network-based information brokers capable of retrieving information about services and products via the Internet from multiple vendor catalogs and data bases for both human and computer-based clients. for both human and computer-based clients.
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Author	Richard Fikes and Adam Farquhar and Wanda Pratt +
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Has title	Information Brokers: Gathering Information from Heterogeneous Information Sources +
Has where published	KSL-96-18 +
Has year	1996 +
Institution	Eckerd College +
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Number	KSL-96-18 +
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Title	Information Brokers: Gathering Information from Heterogeneous Information Sources +
Year	1996 +