knowbot
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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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knowbot
(World-Wide Web)A kind of bot that collects information by
automatically gathering certain specified information from
websites.
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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.Copyright © 1981-2019 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.