A multi-agent based Tourism Kiosk on Internet

Author

Yeung, Chris ; Tung, Pang-Fei ; Yen, Jerome

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ., Hong Kong

Volume

4

fYear

1998

fDate

6-9 Jan 1998

Firstpage

452

Abstract

We discuss the implementation of a multi agent based Tourism Kiosk for Hong Kong tourism industry on the Internet. This system allows the users to retrieve the most updated information about Hong Kong through any Java enabled Web browser. The complete system consists of a set of software agents who handle various information categories, such as hotels, shopping centres, and cinemas, etc. The Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language (KQML) was selected as the agent communication language to develop our system, which takes care the exchange of information among agents. The users are able to send their queries to the system, then the system will dispatch one or more agents, depending on the analysis of the query, to search for and retrieve information for the users

Keywords

Internet; information retrieval; query languages; software agents; transportation; travel industry; Hong Kong tourism industry; Internet; Java enabled Web browser; Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language; agent communication language; cinemas; hotels; information categories; information exchange; information retrieval; multi agent based Tourism Kiosk; shopping centres; software agents; updated information; Cities and towns; Computer science; Graphical user interfaces; Industrial electronics; Information retrieval; Information systems; Internet; Java; Software agents; Software libraries;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1998., Proceedings of the Thirty-First Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kohala Coast, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8255-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1998.655302

Filename

655302