Joint Conf. on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, JCKBSE'96 Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 21-23

Abstract

. A major topic in the #eld of network and telecommunications is doing business on the World Wide Web #WWW#, whichis called Electronic Commerce #EC#. Another major topic is blending Arti#cial Intelligence #AI# techniques with the WWW. In the Ex-W-Pert Project wehave proposed an agent model for EC components that blends the traditional expert systems' reasoning engine with a multilayer knowledge base, communication and documentation engines. Among the EC agents, in this paper, an implementation of a search agent is introduced in detail. 1. Introduction The World Wide Web #WWW# allows people at remotely located sites to communicate and share their ideas using a common communication protocol that can handle text #les, images, sounds, forms, etc. WWW embodies a tremendous amount of information and this amount is increasing rapidly #2#. What makes WWW more attractive and useful is the capabilityof handling URLs #Universal Resource Locators#. Using WWW, one can address a #le by simply calli..