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The prevalent use of Internet and Intranet has transformed the situation of information scarcity into information flooding. Business members have been trapped in vast amount of information and are not able to access useful information efficiently. As a result, the productivity of business member has been decreased. Therefore, the key solution to improve business members* effectiveness and business competitiveness is to provide the right information to suit business members* work needs.This thesis proposes a role-based information service architecture to provide appropriate information to suit business members* need. The proposed architecture utilizes an Information Service Agent to facilitate the process of information selection. The agent determines the selection of information for each business role based on role profiles, and provides each business member the selected information according to his role. By this approach, every business member can efficiently obtain appropriate informat
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