Abstract:
Information Retrieval (IR) Systems are important key players for every
Internet user and there are many Information Retrieving frameworks and
algorithms which are currently using or under development. As the
technology trend is always changing and current industrial and business
world is willing to emphasize on not only providing knowledge but also
supporting service, Cloud Computing and Web Services become popular.
Cloud Computing is Internet based system development in which large
scalable computing resources are provided “as a service” over the Internet to
users and has attracted more and more attention from industry and research
community. Web Service plays important role in Service Oriented Computing
(SOC) in World-Wide-Web and Cloud environment. Developing a Cloud
Wide Information Retrieval System using Web Services can fill one blank of
Cloud Environment because the concept of Cloud Computing does not
provide the facilities of knowledge discovery and information retrieval ; i.e.
Cloud needs to be intelligent and autonomous. In this case, retrieving
desired specific information from Web Services on Cloud Environment
cannot be done by single Web Service. So, there should be a way to build an
Information Retrieval System based on a set of related Web Services in order
to fulfill users’ requests and provide desired services. To compose Web
Services, Multi-Agent System can give great help. Agent systems are
self-contained software programs embodying domain knowledge and having
ability to behave with a specific degree of independence to carry out actions
needed to achieve specified goals. Therefore, this paper mainly focus on
providing a Web Services Based IR Multi-Agent System framework and
Agent Processing Algorithm which will be running on a Private Cloud
Environment. The implementation and testing of this system utilizes the real
datasets of clinics in the Yangon area.
