Speeding-up information retrieval with the employment of a multi-agent system

Sygkouna, I; Anagnostou, ME

dc.contributor.author	Sygkouna, I	en
dc.contributor.author	Anagnostou, ME	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:34:38Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:34:38Z
dc.date.issued	2010	en
dc.identifier.issn	17411084	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/20783
dc.subject	Information retrieval	en
dc.subject	Mobile agents	en
dc.subject	Multi-agent system	en
dc.subject	Optimisation	en
dc.subject.other	Communication resources	en
dc.subject.other	Distributed data	en
dc.subject.other	Network node	en
dc.subject.other	Optimisation	en
dc.subject.other	Optimisations	en
dc.subject.other	Processing resources	en
dc.subject.other	System design	en
dc.subject.other	Total completion time	en
dc.subject.other	Heuristic algorithms	en
dc.subject.other	Highway accidents	en
dc.subject.other	Information retrieval	en
dc.subject.other	Multi agent systems	en
dc.subject.other	Optimization	en
dc.subject.other	Mobile agents	en
dc.title	Speeding-up information retrieval with the employment of a multi-agent system	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1504/IJWMC.2010.034220	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJWMC.2010.034220	en
heal.publicationDate	2010	en
heal.abstract	This paper focuses on Mobile Agents (MAs) and their use for information retrieval. A multi-agent system is considered; a number of agents are involved in a cooperative effort to retrieve distributed data from network nodes. Our objective is to find the routes of the agents so that the total completion time is minimised. The system design goal of producing an 'optimal' answer with minimal use of communication and processing resources is the driving reason for testing three heuristic algorithms. Our endmost goal is to achieve an 'acceptable' answer using a 'reasonable' amount of communication resources. © 2010 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.	en
heal.journalName	International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1504/IJWMC.2010.034220	en
dc.identifier.volume	4	en
dc.identifier.issue	3	en
dc.identifier.spage	210	en
dc.identifier.epage	217	en