Hands-On Guide to Creating Simple to Sophisticated Intelligent Agents.
Intermediate Level Users.
Includes CD-ROM.
Information-gathering "spiders" and context-sensitive "helper" agents like Office Assistants perform specific computing-related tasks that can save many human-hours in effort. But to achieve these gains in functionality, countless developer-hours have been consumed in trial and error as programmers wrestled with a burgeoning technology. Now developers can get the practical, hands-on information they need to quickly create and deploy both simple and sophisticated agents for custom applications.
This guide, written by a prolific innovator in the agent arena, offers specific instruction for leveraging Visual C++ skills to build robots, spiders, and crawlers, and intelligent agents. Each chapter presents an adaptable code example for a functioning agent, along with ideas for modifying or extending it.
