Adaptive web search based on a colony of cooperative distributed agents

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2782, Issue , 2003, Pages 168-183

  Gasparetti, Fabio ^a   Micarelli, Alessandro ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE WEB SEARCH; AGENT AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; ANT SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL PARADIGM; DISTRIBUTED AGENTS; INTELLIGENT SEARCH; REACTIVE AGENT; USER INFORMATION NEED;

SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

ADAPTIVE WEB SEARCH; COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTED AGENTS; HYPERTEXTUAL COLLECTIONS;

EID: 2942605365     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45217-1_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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