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Regarding the research and development of agent-based applications for the World Wide Web, learning personal assistants have become fashionable in the past four years. In general, an adaptive information agent is able to cope with any kind of dynamic change in an open information environment in which it has to execute its tasks. This might concern for example the location and content of data sources as well as user profiles and relevancy of delivered information.
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Klusch, M. (1999). Introduction. In: Klusch, M. (eds) Intelligent Information Agents. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60018-0_13
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