Title: A web-based multi-agent system approach to document engineering

Authors: Jose R. Villar, Carmen Benavides, Isaias Garcia, Angel Alonso, Francisco Rodriguez

Addresses: Ingenieria de Sistemas y Automatica, Departamento de Ingenieria Electrica y Electronica, Universidad de Leon, Edificio Tecnologico, Campus de Vegazana s/n, 24071 Leon, Spain. ' Ingenieria de Sistemas y Automatica, Departamento de Ingenieria Electrica y Electronica, Universidad de Leon, Edificio Tecnologico, Campus de Vegazana s/n, 24071 Leon, Spain. ' Ingenieria de Sistemas y Automatica, Departamento de Ingenieria Electrica y Electronica, Universidad de Leon, Edificio Tecnologico, Campus de Vegazana s/n, 24071 Leon, Spain. ' Ingenieria de Sistemas y Automatica, Departamento de Ingenieria Electrica y Electronica, Universidad de Leon, Edificio Tecnologico, Campus de Vegazana s/n, 24071 Leon, Spain. ' Ingenieria de Sistemas y Automatica, Departamento de Ingenieria Electrica y Electronica, Universidad de Leon, Edificio Tecnologico, Campus de Vegazana s/n, 24071 Leon, Spain

Abstract: Document engineering is the automatic or semiautomatic process that assists a documental department of a company in the gathering, storing, retrieving and generation of articles and documents, and also in the distribution of these documents. A web-based multi-agent system was chosen as the best approach to build such a system, providing a flexible and scalable solution that not only automates but also improves the initial manual work. Several artificial intelligence techniques were studied and developed. This paper describes the solution designed, the text document classifier, the query subsystem, the automatic document generation subsystem and the web interfaces.

Keywords: multi-agent systems; knowledge engineering; artificial intelligence; machine learning; applied reasoning models; internet applications; agent-based systems; document engineering; document classification; intelligent documentation; document retrieval.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWET.2004.006269

International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, 2004 Vol.1 No.4, pp.437 - 453

Published online: 12 Feb 2005 *

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