Title :
Preliminary performance evaluation of an agent-based geospatial data conflation system
Author :
Rahimi, Shahram ; Bjursell, Johan ; Ali, Dia ; Cobb, Maria ; Paprzycki, Marcin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL, USA
Abstract :
A rapid growth of available geospatial data requires development of systems capable of autonomous data retrieval, integration and validation. Mobile agent technology may provide a suitable framework for developing such systems since this technology can deal, in a natural way, with the distributed heterogeneous nature of the data. We evaluate our novel multi-agent architecture for geospatial data integration and compare its performance with a client/server and a single-agent architecture. We analyze the performance alteration for various numbers of participating nodes, amount of database accesses, processing loads, and network loads.
Keywords :
data handling; geographic information systems; information retrieval; multi-agent systems; performance evaluation; visual databases; agent-based geospatial data conflation system; autonomous data retrieval; data integration; data validation; database access; distributed heterogeneous data; mobile agent; multiagent architecture; performance evaluation; processing load; single-agent architecture; Intelligent agent;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Agent Technology, 2003. IAT 2003. IEEE/WIC International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1931-8
DOI :
10.1109/IAT.2003.1241142
