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Considering Operational Issues For Multiagent Conceptual Inferencing In A Distributed Information Retrieval Application, Leen-Kiat Soh
Considering Operational Issues For Multiagent Conceptual Inferencing In A Distributed Information Retrieval Application, Leen-Kiat Soh
School of Computing: Faculty Publications
Our system, based on a multiagent framework called collaborative understanding of distributed knowledge (CUDK), is designed with the overall goal of balancing agents’ conceptual learning and task accomplishment. The tradeoff between the two is that while conceptual learning allows an agent to improve its own concept base, it could be counter-productive: conceptual learning is time consuming and requires processing resources necessary for the agent to accomplish its tasks. In our current phase of research, we investigate the roles of resource and knowledge constraints, environmental factors (such as the frequency of queries), and learning mechanisms in a CUDK-based distributed information retrieval …