Computer based systems that support executives' information need for decision making have been increasingly developed and implemented in business, such as Executive Information Systems (EIS), yet their applications are still limited and often do not support intelligence functions. The over abundance of irrelevant information, the complex and dynamic business environment and the heterogeneous of executive information needs pose a great challenge for developing successful EIS. Based on Simon's decision making theory, this paper examines the nature of executive intelligence activities and investigates the need for supporting these activities by computer based systems. More specifically, how intelligent agents can be used to enhance traditional EIS is studied and A framework for developing an agent-based environment is proposed for supporting executive intelligence activities that embraces executive information acquisition-synthesis-interpretation activities. The implementation of this environment in a prototype system is discussed and future research is outlined.
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