Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. These works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Although the number and availability of electronic information sources are increasing, current information technology requires manual manipulation and user-specifi cation of all details. Once accessed, information must be fi ltered in the context of the user's task.
Current systems lack the ability to get contextual information or use it to automate fi ltering.
In this chapter, we will provide a brief overview of the whole system and then focus on its capability for in-context information management. Cooperative, Rational and Adaptive Information Gathering on the Internet , Matthias Klusch, ed., Springer Verlag, 1999. For updates and comments, please see these instructions .