Society of cooperative agents on the information network: towards intelligent information gathering

In this paper, we propose a completely agent-based approach for Information Gathering on information network with a large number of distributed heterogeneous sources, such as Internet. Locating and accessing information in such a large distributed system which changes dynamically is challenging. Agent-based solution is most suitable in such situation. We first review the drawbacks of existing non-agent and partially agent-based solutions for locating information on Internet. With motivation for solving this, we introduce CAS model to express a Society of Cooperative Agents and then explain how our completely agent based solution based on the proposed CAS model overcome the weak point of the existing approaches.