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Agents for hypermedia information discovery

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Cooperative Information Agents II Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet (CIA 1998)

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In this paper, a Multi-Agent System for Distributed Information Discovery and Retrieval is presented. Data mining enables extraction of hypermedia information from heterogeneous information sources existing on the World Wide Web. The goal is to construct a distributed deductive database system of meta-information about these sources using an open architecture and an extensible ontology of descriptive attributes. Each component database is maintained by an information source agent. Prolog-style queries, entered via a user agent, express user requests for information items of interest. The query evaluation is performed utilising intermediary architectural layers of facilitator, matchmaker and descriptor agents that enable intelligent query routing exhibiting co-operative answering behaviour.

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  1. Department of Computing, Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, SW7 2BZ, London

    Vasilios S. Lazarou & Keith L. Clark

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Lazarou, V.S., Clark, K.L. (1998). Agents for hypermedia information discovery. In: Klusch, M., Weiß, G. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents II Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet. CIA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1435. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053672

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