Using P2P Computing and Mobile Agents For Web Information Retrieval: A Framework Design
Yihua Philip Sheng · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2003
The Internet has tremendous amount of information to be readily gathered and mined.But lack of useful tools for gathering and mining information makes the information under-utilized.Also, it would be very nice if an individual could have his own information gathering and filtering system so that he can freely tweak information according to his own needs.But building and maintaining a reliable and efficient web information retrieval system (WIRS) is associated with a very high cost; reliable and durable software and hardware, a large number of computers for web crawling, and high speed network connection are the minimum requirements.This paper proposes a lightweight information retrieval system based on mobile agents and peer-to-peer (P2P) computing technologies to drastically reduce the cost.