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Agent-Enabled Decision Support for Information Retrieval in Technical Fields

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Abstract

Information retrieval (IR) is challenging for a non-expert who operates in a technical area such as medical terminology. Since IR is essentially a decision making process, experience with the design of intelligent decision support systems is relevant. Intelligent agents can assist the user during decision making, and, by extension, in IR to locate the desired information. This paper presents an extension to an IR system for a medical application in which the user lacks the descriptive vocabulary needed to retrieve the resources. Agents continuously seek information on behalf of the user and are autonomous, proactive, communicative, mobile, goal-driven and persistent in order to retrieve information on behalf of the user.

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  1. Loyola College in Maryland, 4501 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, USA

    Gloria Phillips-Wren

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  1. School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, UK

    Bogdan Gabrys

  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, SA, 5095, Mawson Lakes, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Phillips-Wren, G. (2006). Agent-Enabled Decision Support for Information Retrieval in Technical Fields. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4252. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11893004_67

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