WASP -- Web Agent Support Program
9. Societal Usefulness
a. Relevance
Our society becomes more and more dependent
on electronically available information.
Due to the increasing amount and complexity
of the information provided,
intelligent agents seem to become the dominant
user interface metaphor for the average user
of information systems in general,
and Web-based applications in particular.
b. Contribution
Our project aims at satisfying the conditions
for developing agent-based Web-aware applications,
which allow the average user to concentrate
on the task at hand rather than the tools
and mechanisms needed to access information.
c. Transfer
The transfer of our expertise will be through
education at our institutes and via contacts
with business and industry.
As interested contacts we mention:
ASZ (GAK group, S.C. Chang, Manager R&D)
Object+ (Peter de Weerdt, Commercial Manager),
Rabo Nederland (Mieke Cornelisse, Rabofacet).
These parties have showed interest in the WASP
project in informal contacts.
mailto:eliens@cs.vu.nl
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