Legal Aspects of the Application of Agent-based Information Retrieval on the Internet
Hui Zan Yang, Minjie Zhang · Journal of Law Information & Science · 2001
Agent-based paradigm seems to be a promising technology for developing applications in open, distributed and heterogeneous environments, such as the Internet. Many application areas, such as information retrieval can benefit from the application of agent technology. Despite the advantages offered by agent-based systems, some legal concerns such as liability, security, and privacy protection are raised by intelligent agents. After examining the various kinds of agents, this paper surveys those legal concerns, focusing on issues arising from the applications of agent-based information retrieval on the Internet. Finally, we offer a security framework for our ongoing project - IISS, an agent-based intelligent information selection system for distributed information sources, which makes IISS suitable to build and support legal applications on the Internet.