Agent-based Social Information Gathering on Internet

The popularization of computers and the Internet have produced an explosion in the amount of inform~ttion, ntaking difficult to find the.hi. The. problem with oxisting information-locating support systemns is that ahhough they allow user to search through a large, nunfl)e.r of information sources, they provide very limited capabilitie.s for locating. combining and processing informations. The load of finding information is still on the user. In order to support the user in finding information in such environments, we propose, what we called a "completely agent-based framework for Information Gathering", named Cooperative Agent Society for In.formation GatheT~ng or CASte: in short. This CASIa is b;Lsed on the integration of collaborative, interface agents, domainspecific mediators and cooperative informatiou ~mrces.