Multi-agent based peer-to-peer information retrieval systems with concurrent search sessions

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 305-312

  Zhang, Haizheng ^a   Lesser, Victor ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Control; Peer to peer information retrieval

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BOTTLENECKS; CONCURRENT SEARCH SESSIONS; PEER TO PEER INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY ROUTING ALGORITHM;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247281598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1160633.1160685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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