Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 03:33:11 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Sat, 11 May 1996 10:39:35 GMT Content-length: 5087 The Ingram softbot
The
INGRAM
softbot project


Ingram is an INformation GatheRing Agent called ingraM. The user can specify the information he or she in terms of a database query and Ingram will try its best to use all kinds of deviated methods not unlike those in the Internet hunt to obtain the information.

Ingram is different from many other similar projects in many ways. Ingram is designed to be small, efficient and distributed, so that eventually it can reside on the web as a java application. Dream on.

At the core of Ingram is a forward chaining planner Occam. Occam is novel in that it performs heuristic search on database objects. Occam is a joint work with Dan Weld, and recently we co-authored a paper on Occam that was accepted to appear in AAAI96.

Publications:

Coming attractions: we're going to model the following sites:

Modeling

Commercial Sites Index; Browse
Future Fantasy Bookstore - Home Page
Geographical and Weather
Infinite Ink's Finding, Writing, & Distributing FAQs
Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page
Mailing List WWW Gateway
NPR Online
NYNEX Interactive Yellow Pages - Home Page
Netfind Search
Reference
Telephone Directories On The Web
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
Virtual WordsWorth -- The Complete Discount Bookseller Home Page
WSMV InfoSource -- News Master Page
Welcome to ISN
netlib home page

Here are some of the related systems:

Here are some other softbots we have in UW:
Cody Kwok Last modified Feb 1