Interoperability and semi-structured data in an open Web-based agent information system

Author

Lu, Hongen ; Sterling, Leon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

80

Abstract

The World Wide Web is a vast resource of information and services that continues to grow rapidly. How to find information providers and how to integrate information agents in such an open environment are new challenges. In this paper, we present an open multi-agent system called SportsAgents, for information gathering from the World Wide Web. In this system, middleware agents are introduced to solve the interoperability problem among information agents. Novel aspects in SportsAgents are an intelligent matchmaking algorithm for inferring the service relationships among information agents, and a naive Bayesian model for information agent cooperation formation is given. Information agents use score patterns to extract semi-structured sports results. All these make the system open and scalable to new applications and flexible for organising the agents´ cooperation

Keywords

Bayes methods; client-server systems; data structures; deductive databases; distributed databases; information resources; multi-agent systems; online front-ends; open systems; sport; SportsAgents; World Wide Web; flexibility; information agent cooperation; information gathering; information resource; information services; intelligent matchmaking algorithm; interoperability; middleware agents; naive Bayesian model; open Web-based agent information system; open environment; scalable system; score patterns; semi-structured data; semi-structured sports results extraction; service relationships inference; Application software; Australia; Cities and towns; Computer network management; Data mining; Graphical user interfaces; Information systems; Java; Middleware; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Information Systems Engineering, 2000. Proceedings of the First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0577-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WISE.2000.882378

Filename

882378