Resumen

LOPEZ YEPES, Alfonso; SANCHEZ JIMENEZ, Rodrigo  y  PEREZ AGUERA, José Ramón. Information Agents. Investig. bibl [online]. 2005, vol.19, n.39, pp.28-46. ISSN 2448-8321.

This article summarizes the main information agent types reflecting on issues such as mobility, rationality, adaptability and the final adjustment of this concepts to distributed environments such as the Internet, where this kind of agents has wide range application. Likewise, an information agent architecture is proposed to create a multi-agent information retrieval system in which a documentary paradigm based on the documentary cycle is developed.

Palabras llave : Agents; Information retrieval; Software engineering.