Information Retrieval Multi-Agent System Using Web Services

Abstract

Information Retrieval Systems are playing in important role for every Internet user since the World-Wide-Web has started flourishing with enormous information resources of different sectors and trends that can give public knowledge and know-how. As the current industrial and business trend is not only providing knowledge but also supporting service, Web Service technology becomes popular because it is standards-based realization of the service-oriented computing (SOC) paradigm, which has emerged in response to a fundamental shift in the way enterprises conduct their business. Retrieving desired specific information and facts on the Web cannot be done by single Web Service. So there should be a possibility to combine existing related Web Services in order to fulfill user requests. To compose Web Services, Multi-Agent System can give a great help. In order to construct a Multi-Agent System from a collection of Web Services, we propose an Agent Algorithm and a Web Services Based IR framework. The implementation and testing of this system utilizes the real datasets of clinics in the Yangon area.