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The rapid growth in technology has made the computer a vital tool for a wide variety of applications. Software that aids the common user in performing routine computing chores have now become commonplace. With the Internet growing rapidly, numerous new sites are coming into existence each day. This necessarily means that a user has to spend more time and energy to search for a particular piece of information. The need of the day is to develop software that can act more like a human assistant, understanding and learning a user’s behavior to emulate and aid him to carry out his task in a simpler and easier manner. Presented in this paper is one such architecture wherein agents inhabit the desktop, monitor user behavior and over a period of time learn to adapt and take over routine tasks. Embedded on the Microsoft Windows 2000 desktop, the agents in this architecture work co-operatively with one another to provide desktop management and intelligent web surfing support.
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Chaturbhuj, N., Prakash, V.S., Nair, S.B. (2009). A Co-operative Intelligent Assisting Agent Architecture for Web Searching and Desktop Management. In: Lukose, D., Shi, Z. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems for Society. PRIMA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4078. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03339-1_3
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