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Problem solving methods, inspired biologically or by nature, are gaining in importance. Their potential for devising new, but also for increasing efficiency of some well-known methods for solving different kinds of problems, is becoming more and more obvious. The behaviour of social insects provides a lot of inspiration. We took inspiration from honey bees, in particular the way they behave in a hive. We proposed a modified model devised for searching parts of the web online. In a series of experiments, we attempted to follow a developing story with the aim to automatically find documents (web pages) bringing news on the story. This service, working as a beehive, delivered documents as expected.
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Navrat, P., Ezzeddine, A.B. (2010). Bee Hive at Work: Following a Developing Story on the Web. In: Bramer, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice III. IFIP AI 2010. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 331. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15286-3_18
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