Title: Using multi-agent systems and consensus methods for information retrieval in internet

Authors: Leszek Sliwko, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

Addresses: Institute of Applied Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland. ' Institute of Information Science and Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

Abstract: The paper presents a consensus-based approach utilised within a multi-agent system, which assists users in retrieving information from the internet. In this system, consensus methods are applied for reconciling inconsistencies among independent answers generated by agents (using various search engines) for a given query. AI methods have been developed to allow the agent|s self-improvement. The proposed agent system has been implemented and the initial experiment results are presented here.

Keywords: information searching; multi-agent systems; agent-based systems; consensus methods; information retrieval; internet searching; web searching; artificial intelligence.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIIDS.2007.014949

International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2007 Vol.1 No.2, pp.181 - 198

Published online: 20 Aug 2007 *

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