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Information Broker Demos
Book Store Example:
 | An information broker that integrates information from www.amazon.com and www.chaptersglobe.com
about books for sale. |
| Show the dynamic invoking of extra services, also show the
replacement of a service with a similar one (here another currency
converter) when it is not available. |
Computer Store Example:
Movie Search Example:
| An information broker that take theatre and showtime
information from www.toronto.com and integrates that
information with movie reviews from www.mrshowbiz.com. |
| Tests the integration of complementing information sources. |
Search Engine Example:
| An information broker that integrates information from a
combination of search engines. The list of search engines include Altavista, Excite,
Goto, Hotbot and Infoseek. |
| Test the usability of our system, especially its advantages
over metacrawler, which is a hard coded metasearch engine. Since these information
sources have simple input and output format, this application example may run robustly and
attract real users. |
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