Adaptive Agents for Information Gathering from Multiple, Distributed Information Sources (1999)
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@MISC{Fan99adaptiveagents,
author = {Yizhong Fan and et al.},
title = {Adaptive Agents for Information Gathering from Multiple, Distributed Information Sources},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
The expansion of information available on the Web has been explosive. The initial approach of collecting all Web pages into a single location and indexing them is limited in its ability to deal with this explosion. Different search engines provide access to different collections, requiring users to access multiple information sources to meet their needs. A scalable approach to information gathering from multiple sources is described which is based on the use of distributed information agents to route queries to the most appropriate sources and fuse information they provide. This paper
