ACTIVE INFORMATION GATHERING IN INFOSLEUTH^TM

Abstract

InfoSleuth is an agent-based system that can be configured to perform many different information management activities in a distributed environment. InfoSleuth TM agents provide a number of complex query services that require resolving ontology-based queries over dynamically changing, distributed, heterogeneous resources. These include distributed query processing, location-independent single-resource updates, event and information monitoring, statistical or inferential data analysis, and trend discovery in complex event streams. It has been used in numerous applications, including the Environmental Data Exchange Network and the Competitive Intelligence System.