A MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION SHARING

Marco Mari, Agostino Poggi, Michele Tomaiuolo

2006

Abstract

This paper presents RAIS, a peer-to-peer multi-agent system supporting the sharing of information among a community of users connected through the internet. RAIS has been designed and implemented on the top of well known technologies and software tools for realizing multi-agent and peer-to-peer systems, for the searching of information and for the authentication and authorization of users. RAIS offers a similar search power of Web search engines, but avoids the burden of publishing the information on the Web and guaranties a controlled and dynamic access to the information. Moreover, the use of agent technologies simplifies the realization of three of the main features of the system: i) the filtering of the information coming from different users on the basis of the previous experience of the local user, ii) the pushing of the new information that can be of possible interest for a user, and iii) the delegation of access capabilities on the basis of a network of reputation built by the agents of the system on the community of its users.

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Mari M., Poggi A. and Tomaiuolo M. (2006). A MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION SHARING . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-44-3, pages 147-152. DOI: 10.5220/0002446501470152


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@conference{iceis06,
author={Marco Mari and Agostino Poggi and Michele Tomaiuolo},
title={A MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION SHARING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={147-152},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002446501470152},
isbn={978-972-8865-44-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - A MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION SHARING
SN - 978-972-8865-44-3
AU - Mari M.
AU - Poggi A.
AU - Tomaiuolo M.
PY - 2006
SP - 147
EP - 152
DO - 10.5220/0002446501470152