Brokering the info-underworld

Abstract

Information brokerage is a range of intermediary services between consumers and info-sources in an increasingly commercial trading environment. In this scenario automated on-line businesses emerge to provide information services. Their construction, deployment and management is considered as net-centric component-ware: they continually re-assess their market and self-organise to fulfil their optimal business development. This process is likely to involve increasingly active intelligent elements in the global net. The global interactions of large masses of information may bring about some interesting consequences.