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As part of the ongoing Illinois Digital Library Initiative project, this paper presents the Java Search Agent Workshop (JSAW), a testbed designed for Java-based information searching. Based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, and G-Search, we implemented several search methods in Java to demonstrate their feasibility in various database, Internet, Intranet, and digital library search tasks. In addition to detailing our design rationale and implementation status, we present several sample Java implementations including a best first search spider and G-Search spider for Internet searching, and a Hopfield neural network based visualizer for database searching. Lessons learned and future directions are also presented.
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Chen, H., Ramsey, M., Li, P. (2000). The Java Search Agent Workshop. In: Crestani, F., Pasi, G. (eds) Soft Computing in Information Retrieval. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 50. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1849-9_6
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