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Knowbot(KNOWledge roBOT) A Unix-based system for software agents that roam a distributed network, such as the Internet, in order to gather or distribute information. Developed by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, Reston, VA (www.cnri.reston.va.us) and written in Python, the Knowbot Operating System is server software that hosts and interacts with the Knowbot mobile agents. knowbot [′nō‚bät] (computer science) A program which, when given a request, searches and retrieves information on the Internet. Also known as intelligent agent, knowledge robot.
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Comparisons with other systems continually suggest adapting cataloging practices to a world populated by computer robots, knowbots, and other intelligent software programs. Those knowbots, or information valets, or however those automated retrievers of information will be known, of course entail the use of expert systems; expert systems, in turn, are based on the advice of experts--the ways in which experts respond to queries, or solve a problem, or perform a particular operation. This author first read about demon knowbots in an article by Steinberg (1990): |
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