Journal article
Ethical Web agents
Computer networks and ISDN systems, Vol.28(1), pp.127-136
1995
DOI: 10.1016/0169-7552(95)00107-3
Abstract
As the Web continues to evolve, the sophistication of the programs that are employed in interacting with it will also increase in sophistication. Web agents, programs acting autonomously on some task, are already present in the form of spiders. Agents offer substantial benefits and hazards, and because of this, their development must involve not only attention to technical details, but also the ethical concerns relating to their resulting impact. These ethical concerns will differ for agents employed in the creation of a service and agents acting on behalf of a specific individual. An ethic is proposed that addresses both of these perspectives. The proposal is predicated on the assumption that agents are a reality on the Web, and that there are no reasonable means of preventing their proliferation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Ethical Web agents
- Creators
- David Eichmann - Repository Based Software, Engineering Program, Research Institute for Computing and Information Science, University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2700 Bay Area Boulevard, Houston, TX 77058, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Computer networks and ISDN systems, Vol.28(1), pp.127-136
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- DOI
- 10.1016/0169-7552(95)00107-3
- ISSN
- 0169-7552
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1995
- Academic Unit
- Library and Information Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984003005002771
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