Title :
Web-agents inspired by ethology: a population of "ant"-like agents to help finding user-oriented information
Author_Institution :
Equipe Traitement des Images et du Signal, CNRS, France
Abstract :
We present a Web-search ant-agent inspired by ethology and robotics. We detail its implementation on a set of FIPAOS platforms and show useful results in route finding and rerouting. Finally, we discuss its interest and drawbacks in comparison with classical search engines and give perspectives to overcome them.
Keywords :
Internet; information retrieval; multi-agent systems; search engines; FIPAOS platforms; Web agent; search engines; user oriented information; Animals; Application software; Cognitive robotics; Computer architecture; Data mining; Databases; Humans; Navigation; Robots; Search engines;
Conference_Titel :
Web Intelligence, 2003. WI 2003. Proceedings. IEEE/WIC International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1932-6
DOI :
10.1109/WI.2003.1241245