TICSA approach: five important aspects of multi-agent systems

The issues of distributed and heterogeneous information, lack an underlying knowledge base, autonomy of the information resources, dynamic nature of the information retrieval process and dramatically increase of the available information are major factors hindering efficient and effective use of the...

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Main Authors: Hadzic, Maja, Chang, Elizabeth
Other Authors: R. Meersman
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Springer 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13535
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Chang, Elizabeth
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description The issues of distributed and heterogeneous information, lack an underlying knowledge base, autonomy of the information resources, dynamic nature of the information retrieval process and dramatically increase of the available information are major factors hindering efficient and effective use of the available information. In this paper we explain the importance of multi-agent systems in addressing these issues effectively and illustrate this on an example of multi-agent system designed to intelligently retrieve human disease information. We also present a conceptual framework (TICSA) which focuses on the five different aspects of multi-agent systems namely, agent Types, Intelligence, Collaboration, Security and Assembly. This framework can be used to provide insight and guidance during the multi-agents systems design.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-135352022-11-21T06:47:07Z TICSA approach: five important aspects of multi-agent systems Hadzic, Maja Chang, Elizabeth R. Meersman Z. Tari P. Herrero information retrieval human diseases biomedical information systems multi-agent system design Multi-agent system The issues of distributed and heterogeneous information, lack an underlying knowledge base, autonomy of the information resources, dynamic nature of the information retrieval process and dramatically increase of the available information are major factors hindering efficient and effective use of the available information. In this paper we explain the importance of multi-agent systems in addressing these issues effectively and illustrate this on an example of multi-agent system designed to intelligently retrieve human disease information. We also present a conceptual framework (TICSA) which focuses on the five different aspects of multi-agent systems namely, agent Types, Intelligence, Collaboration, Security and Assembly. This framework can be used to provide insight and guidance during the multi-agents systems design. 2008 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13535 10.1007/978-3-540-88875-8_131 Springer fulltext
spellingShingle information retrieval
human diseases
biomedical information systems
multi-agent system design
Multi-agent system
Hadzic, Maja
Chang, Elizabeth
TICSA approach: five important aspects of multi-agent systems
title TICSA approach: five important aspects of multi-agent systems
title_full TICSA approach: five important aspects of multi-agent systems
title_fullStr TICSA approach: five important aspects of multi-agent systems
title_full_unstemmed TICSA approach: five important aspects of multi-agent systems
title_short TICSA approach: five important aspects of multi-agent systems
title_sort ticsa approach: five important aspects of multi-agent systems
topic information retrieval
human diseases
biomedical information systems
multi-agent system design
Multi-agent system
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13535