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WinAgent: a system for creating and executing personal information assistants using a web browser

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IUI '04: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

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https://doi.org/10.1145/964442.964532

Published: 13 January 2004 Publication History

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WinAgent is a software system for creating and executing Personal Information Assistants (PIAs). These are software robots that can locate and extract targeted data buried deep within a web site. They do so by automatically navigating to relevant sites, locating the correct Web pages (which can be either directly accessed by traversing appropriate links or by filling out HTML forms), and extracting, structuring, and organizing data of interest from these pages into XML. The primary thrust of WinAgent technology effort was to make these tools easy-to-use by users who are not necessarily trained in computing. In particular users create and execute PIAs through a Web Browser.

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Lacroix ZParekh KDavulcu HRamakrishnan IJulasana N(2004)Automating the Biological Data Collection Process with AgentsProceedings of the 2004 IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference10.5555/1018417.1019292(489-490)Online publication date: 16-Aug-2004
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Lacroix ZParekh KDavulcu HRamakrishnan IJulasana N(2004)Automating the biological data collection process with agentsProceedings. 2004 IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference, 2004. CSB 2004.10.1109/CSB.2004.1332470(469-470)Online publication date: 2004
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WinAgent: a system for creating and executing personal information assistants using a web browser
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Multi / mixed media creation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia

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Lacroix ZParekh KDavulcu HRamakrishnan IJulasana N(2004)Automating the Biological Data Collection Process with AgentsProceedings of the 2004 IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference10.5555/1018417.1019292(489-490)Online publication date: 16-Aug-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1018417.1019292
Davulcu HLacroix ZParekh KRamakrishnan IJulasana N(2004)Exploiting agent and database technologies for biological data collectionProceedings. 15th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2004.10.1109/DEXA.2004.1333503(376-381)Online publication date: 2004
https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.2004.1333503
Lacroix ZParekh KDavulcu HRamakrishnan IJulasana N(2004)Automating the biological data collection process with agentsProceedings. 2004 IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference, 2004. CSB 2004.10.1109/CSB.2004.1332470(469-470)Online publication date: 2004
https://doi.org/10.1109/CSB.2004.1332470

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