DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL USING MOBILE AGENT
Y M Naik, Shilpa Tarihal, Roopali Swami, Ashwini Purandare, Kiran Adike · 2013
Internet has evolved from an information space to a market space with thousands, potentially millions, of electronic storefronts, auctions and other commercial services. This creates great opportunities, but is not without problems.. The information overload is an obstacle to the practical use of potentially useful information on the Web. The use of mobile agents in this kind of applications represents a novel approach and potentially solves most of the problems that exist in centralized client-server solutions, because they are programs with a persistent identity which moves around a network and can communicate with this environment and other agents. We present a possible solution for this problem: the Data Agent system - a mobile agent application for the retrieval of distributed structured information in a scenario of several on- line bookstores. This system was developed for Web-based distributed access to database systems based on