Information Agent Update

Leon Sterling
Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Melbourne

Friday, 30th July 1999
0930 - 1100

Conference Room
CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences
Ground Floor, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne.

Abstract:

Leon Sterling will give an update on the information agent research ongoing at the University of Melbourne Intelligent Agent Lab.  Specific topics to be covered are intelligent concept extraction in the context of legal documents on the WWW, finding sports scores and the `best' sporting city, and automatic wrapper induction in the context of searching classified ads.

He will also talk about the Agent technology Rapid Diffusion project which has (finally!) been approved by the Government.

Biosketch:

Leon Sterling is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne.  His current research focuses on information agents and agent shells, and rapid prototyping of agents using logic programming technology under the auspices of agent-based software engineering.