MAPWEB: Cooperation between Planning Agents and Web Agents

Nowadays, there is a vast (and growing) amount of information stored in the WEB available for any user connected to the network. This information is heterogeneous and distributed. Web information could be used by the users to solve many different problems if only they could spend enough time searching, retrieving, and analyzing the data. Internet provides a lot of WEB applications like search engines and metasearch engines that enable the users to look for the information they need. However, currently it is impractical to build a single and unified system that combines all possible information sources that could be useful to the users. Some of the reasons are summarized below:

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