On the retrieval effectiveness study of an adaptive multi agent system in a Web digital library

Abstract

An agent is a computational entity similar to a software program newlinethat can be viewed as perceiving and acting upon its environment and newlineautonomous in its behaviors partially depending on its own experience newlineAs an intelligent entity an agent operates flexibly and rationally in a newlinevariety of environmental circumstances An agent on the basis of any newlinekey process such as problem solving, planning decision making and newlinelearning achieves behavior flexibility and rationality newlineMulti agent systems are those in which several agents employ newlinetheir knowledge and coordinate their activities and reason about the newlineprocesses of coordination Distributed problem solving systems are newlinethose in which the work of solving a particular problem is divided newlineamong a number of nodes that divide and share knowledge about the newlineproblem in developing a solution A key pattern of interaction in Multi newlineAgent Systems MAS is a goal and task oriented coordination both in newlinecooperative and competitive situations newline newline