1996 Volume 2 Issue 2 Pages 175-188
The explosion in the amount of electronically available information and the powerful computers at lower cost are causing the computer-for-everybody trend, extending the range of users to non-experts. These phenomena create an information superhighway, which would be difficult to approach without help. Intelligent software agents will provide this necessary help to navigate in the world-wide network of information. In this paper, we survey the current status of agent-based concepts and applications. In particular, we especially review the agent-based information locating systems and present our view of the trends of agent technologies supporting users in finding information on distributed heterogeneous environments.
