ACP2P: Agent Community Based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval

This paper proposes an agent community based information retrieval method, which 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 peerto-peer computing architecture. In order to retrieve relevant information to a user query, an agent uses 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 query and retrieved document information, where the queries were sent by the agent itself. The latter is a list of pairs of query and sender agents and shows “who sent what query to the agent”. This is useful to find a new information source. Making use of the Q/SAH is expected to cause a collaborative filtering effect, which gradually creates virtual agent communities, where agents with the same interests stay to...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: AP2PC
• Authors: Tsunenori Mine, Daisuke Matsuno, Akihiro Kogo, Makoto Amamiya
• Keywords: Agent Communities, Agent Community, AP2PC 2004, Virtual Agent