Modeling a multi-agent system for retrieving information from distributed sources

Journal of Computing and Information Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-39

  Pelletier, Sophie Julie ^a   Pierre, Samuel ^b   Hoang, Hai Hoc ^b  

^a Softimage   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed sources; Heterogeneous networks; Information retrieval; Multi agent architecture; Virtual library

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

DISTRIBUTED SOURCES; DYNAMIC INFORMATION; ELECTRONIC FORMATS; GARBAGE COLLECTION; HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES; INTELLIGENT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE; VIRTUAL LIBRARIES;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 84989279239     PISSN: 13301136     EISSN: 18463908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2498/cit.2003.01.02     Document Type: Article

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