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 ( Thu Sep 26 14:04:11 MET DST 1996 )