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MP-IR: A Market-Oriented Mobile Agents System for Distributed Information Retrieval

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Most of the Information Retrieval (IR) systems are built on the Client – Server paradigm. While agent-based market systems have relative success, agent-based IR systems seem to fail. Recently, works on a mobile agent-based approach for the search of information on the World Wide Web arise. Indeed, the emergence of mobile agent has given the researchers a new way to achieve efficient mobile agents-based IR systems. This paradigm certainly holds great promise, though the lack of results in reliability and security issues. However, we feel that integrating market mechanisms to a new mobile agent model should improve security while bringing the possibility to solve non market applications problems. In this paper, we present how to use a mobile agent-based approach. The main idea is to generalize the market mechanisms to non-market systems such as IR through an extended mobile agents’ model, the seller – buyer model. Then, we present the architecture of a secure mobile agent-based searching system that derives from a general mobile agents-based architecture. Finally, we give an experimental validation to our proposition.

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  1. National Computer Science School of Algiers (ESI), Algiers, Algeria

    Djamel Eddine Menacer

  2. Houari Boumedienne Sciences and Technologies, University of Algiers (USTHB), Algiers, Algeria

    Habiba Drias

  3. Université Toulouse 1 Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, France

    Christophe Sibertin-Blanc

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, 200240, Shanghai, China

    Yinglin Wang

  2. School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, 610031, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China

    Tianrui Li

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Menacer, D.E., Drias, H., Sibertin-Blanc, C. (2011). MP-IR: A Market-Oriented Mobile Agents System for Distributed Information Retrieval. In: Wang, Y., Li, T. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 122. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25664-6_44

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