SEARCH AGENTS

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SEARCH AGENTS

We are all familiar with search engines. These are tools that take a string of input that we enter and, depending on the search algorithm they use, we get presented with a set of Web page URLs that match all or part of the search string we entered. Again, these search engines are passive in nature in that they sit and wait to be told to do something. Active search agents will be constantly looking out for things that we are interested in knowing about. Each person, in the future, will have their own intelligent search agent that will probably have some cute physical representation that can talk to us in our own language. We can make it look how we want and we can train it to know the things we are interested in. It may live on our desktop, in which case every time we power up the desktop it will whiz off looking for information. Alternatively, it may live on a network server and so will continue to work for us even when we're not working ourselves . It can communicate with us via the desktop or by mobile phone or, indeed, any other medium that becomes available.

These advanced search agents will be able to use the data warehouse's structured information as well as external databases and even unstructured information. In effect, these will become the active DSS facilitators. They will pull together all the disparate sources of information and present us with the results, appropriately distilled. Independent software vendors will produce plug-in modules that we can purchase to give our individual agents more intelligence in, say, interpreting company financial results.

Ultimately, our pet agents will be able to buy and sell on our behalf , being capable of taking financial decisions.

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Designing a Data Warehouse . Supporting Customer Relationship Management
Designing A Data Warehouse: Supporting Customer Relationship Management
ISBN: 0130897124
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 96
Authors: Chris Todman

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