BOTS and Other Internet Beasties

Describes how to use intelligent, robot-like programs to retrieve, quantify, and present useful information from the Internet, as well as how to create and customize them. Topics include filtering agents, search engines, BargainFinder, security issues, agent mobility, robots, and manufacturing agents. The languages used to author these agents--Tcl, Telescript, and Java--are also presented. For the casual to accomplished user. The CD-ROM contains a Tcl/Tk compiler from Sun Labs, a Java Developer's Kit, and links to Tcl resources and software agents. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR