Design and Implementation of Agent Community Based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Method

This paper presents an agent community based peer-to-peer information retrieval method called ACP2P method[16] and discusses the experimental results of the method. The ACP2P method uses agent communities to manage and look up information related to users. An agent works as a delegate of its user and searches for information that the user wants by communicating with other agents. The communication between agents is carried out in a peer-to-peer computing architecture. In order to retrieve information relevant to a user query, an agent uses a content file, which consists of retrieved documents and two histories : a query/retrieved document history(Q/RDH) and a query/sender agent history(Q/SAH). The former is a list of pairs of a query and the address of an agent that returned documents relevant to the query. The latter is a list of pairs of a query and the address of a sender agent and shows “who sent what query to the agent”. This is useful for finding a new information source. M...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CIA
• Authors: Tsunenori Mine, Daisuke Matsuno, Akihiro Kogo, Makoto Amamiya
• Keywords: Agent Communities, CIA 2004, Method Uses Agent, Virtual Agent