Expert System Development Tools John Durkin
6. THE FUTURE
6.6. W ORLD W IDE W EB
One very specialized area where we should see expert system applications in the future is in the areas of the internet and the World Wide Web (WWW). The WWW is growing exponentially, and so is the quantity of information that resides there. Even with the presently available search engines, intelligently navigating the WWW is a non-trivial task. Within seconds, these engines provide a list of sites where you can obtain information on the search subject. That's the good news. The bad news is that all too often there is either too much information to digest or irrelevant information. Infoseek's CEO Robin Johnson comments, "The best search engine is the one between your ears," -- a target familiar to expert system developers. The meteoric rise in the interest in the internet, coupled with the need for intelligent information retrieval, will serve as a magnet to expert system developers. Several expert system vendors, recognizing the potential of this emerging market, have already begun to offer internet-related products. Some of these have products that enable the WWW to serve as a front-end to server-based expert systems. They include Exsys, Neuron Data, Talarian, Inference, and Gensym. Level5 Research offers Level5 Quest, a fuzzy search and retrieval tool, which can be used for searching internet database applications by WWW browsers. We should see considerable AI activity in this area in the future, and tool vendors should be there quickly to support the effort.
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