COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS FOR DIGITAL CITIES
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems
- Vol. 10 (1) , 197-215
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s021884300100031x
Abstract
A digital city is a social information infrastructure for urban life (including shopping, business, transportation, education, welfare and so on). We started a project to develop a digital city for Kyoto based on the newest technologies including cooperative information agents. This paper presents an architecture for digital cities and shows the roles of agent interfaces in it. We propose two types of cooperative information agents as follows: (a) the front-end agents determine and refine users' uncertain goals, (b) the back-end agents extract and organize relevant information from the Internet, (c) Both types of agents opportunistically cooperate through a blackboard. We also show the research guidelines towards social agents in digital cities; the agent will foster social interaction among people who are living in/visiting the city.Keywords
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