Webplan: Dynamic planning for domain-specific search in the internet
Jochem Hüllen, Ralph Bergmann, Frank Weberskirch · 1999
Current search engines on the Web basically rely only on purely syntactical textual retrieval mechanism and do not support the complete search process. We argue that searching in the Internet is a dynamic, goal-directed, knowledge-intensive, and iterative process which needs to be planned. The goal of the recently started DFG project WebPlan is to develop a search assistant for domain-specific search on the Internet based on dynamic planning and plan execution techniques. During the course of project, the existing planning system CAPlan will be extended in different ways in order to deal with incomplete information, information seeking opertors, user interaction, and interleaving planning and execution. For these developments, the domain of localizing specific PC software on the Internet will provide significant application specific guideance. 1 Introduction During recent years, the World Wide Web emerged to one of the most important sources of up-to-date information about ...