We describe the integration of content based techniques for navigation of musical information (primarily in MIDI representation) into a multiagent system for distributed information management. This exercise illustrates the application of the multiagent approach to engineering distributed multimedia information systems and raises some design issues. Keywords Software agents, content based navigation, pitch contours, collaborative filtering, open hypermedia, query routing.
David De Roure, Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Steven Black