From robots to Web-agents: building cognitive software agents for Web-information retrieval by taking inspiration from experience in robotics

In this article, Web-search mobile agents inspired by ethology and robotics are presented. 2 strategies are compared: 1^st uses pheromones to mark the route to a given goal; 2^nd involves a cognitive map to internalize a representation of the Web. The implementation on a set of FI-PAOS platforms is given and unintuitive results concerning agent mobility are given.