From Leibniz to machines social: a historical overview of the emergence of intelligent agents of information from the perspective of information science.

ABSTRACT

Aims to investigate the historical context of the development of ideas that culminated in emergence of mining agents. Half of the information processing on the Internet is made by agents stimulating the discussion about the role of bots in the contemporary world, as well as their relationship with people and their data. The justification of this work is the observation of the current scenario in which such agents already interact with the people and by the presumed distancing of the object of study that results in the scarcity of publications from the IS. It presents how the informational needs that drove the emergence of Information Science also inspired the creation of mining agents. The methodological procedure used was a bibliographical revision that starts from the desire of Leibniz in creating the Calculus Ratiocinator and follows until the contemporary theory of the Social Machines. It suggests as a conclusion, on the one hand, that IS has already developed its view on the evolution of Mining Agents, which was initially attributed only to logic and mathematics, and on the other hand to articulate these disjointed and disparate visions of their own contexts Of mining agents.

Keywords:
Mining Agents; Social Machines; Internet 3.0