Semantic Agent

The typically vision of a Semantic Agent (sometimes also referred to as an Intelligent Agent or abbreviated as IA) is an artificial sentient being which automates and/or orchestrates the collection of data, and learns based on the results of each collection.

Although it has been a long-running, common element in Science Fiction movies, it is increasingly becoming more and more of a reality as more data gets entered into computer systems, meanwhile memory capacity and computing power continues to increase along with network scalability and scope, based on Moore's Law (memory/compute power) and Metcalfe's Law (network).

Semantic Travel Agent

• MetaFares: http://metafares.com
• Yapta: http://www.yapta.com/
• Momondo: http://www.momondo.com/flights.aspx
• Openplaces - A semantic search engine for travel:
• CNN - Top Travel Agents article: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/traveltips/03/05/airline.sites/index.html

Semantic Financial Investment Agent

• Morgan Stanley's Matrix -- An App From the Future: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/morgan_stanleys_matrix_an_app_from_the_future.php
• Strands inc.'s MoneyStrands: https://money.strands.com/

Semantic Tag Clouds

• PrimalFusion -- Semantic Thought Networking: http://www.victorgodot.com/newmedia/?p=189 (Waterloo-based Semantic Web start-up)
• MediaCloud: http://www.mediacloud.org/#

Virtual Assistant

• KATO project -- Everyone needs a sidekick!: http://kato.sourceforge.net/kato.html
• Moni.AI: https://moni.ai/

External Links

• wikipedia: Personal information manager
• wikipedia: Electronic data processing (EDP)
• Wikipedia-based Semantic Tagging of the Real-World: http://semapedia.org/
• Nefarious CIA and Saving the World: http://trinifar.wordpress.com/2007/03/04/the-cia-saving-the-world/
• M.I.T. Lists Intelligent Virtual Agents, a Semantic Web Application by Botégo, one of the Emerging Technologies of 2009: http://www.prweb.com/releases/intelligent/agents/prweb2254384.htm
• The next step to the ’semantic web’: http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/03/22/the-next-step-to-the-semantic-web/
• Toshiba cell phone promises to act like a secretary: http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2010/02/toshiba-cell-phone-promises-to-act-like-a-secretary-.html
• Computing faster than electricity: http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/computing-faster-than-electricity/3995/
• Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of Thousands Of Books On Amazon: http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-one-professor-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-amazon-books-and-counting/

See Also

AI | Semantic Web | Semantic Search | Search Engine | Recommendation Engine | Recommender | Mobile