Authors:
Marco Mari
;
Agostino Poggi
and
Michele Tomaiuolo
Affiliation:
DII, University of Parma, Italy
Keyword(s):
Information sharing, multi-agent systems, peer-to-peer.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Internet and Collaborative Computing
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Agents
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 th
e agents of the system on the community of its users.
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