Authors:
Valérie Camps
and
Pierre Glize
Affiliation:
IRIT- Université Paul Sabatier, France
Keyword(s):
Web site and services personalisation, searching and browsing, emergent quality of services, adaptive multi-agent
systems, self-organisation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Personalized Web Sites and Services
;
Searching and Browsing
;
User Modeling
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
Current information systems are plunged into highly dynamical environments which produce occurrences of
unpredictable situations. This dynamics combined with the inherent geographical and functional distribution
of such systems, make usual adaptation techniques which are global or dependent of the intended global
function realised by the system, unsuitable. Our contribution concerns a partial instantiation of a local
adaptation method, based on adaptive multi-agent systems, to manage the QoS of information systems. This
management is done according to two points of view addressed in an integrate way: a quantitative one and a
qualitative one. First obtained results, showing the benefits of cooperation to the adaptation of such systems,
are then discussed.