Formal specification of multi agent system for historical information retrieval from online social networks

  • Authors:
  • Ruqayya Abdulrahman;D. R. W. Holton;Daniel Neagu;Mick Ridley

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK;Department of Computing, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK;Department of Computing, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK;Department of Computing, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

  • Venue:
  • KES-AMSTA'11 Proceedings of the 5th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In the last few years, there has seen a marked increase in the usage of Online Social Networks (OSN). Coping with the real time changes of a huge amount of personal information requires new methods for retrieving information. Our previous approach for retrieving information from OSN was a centralized system that controlled and retrieved information of each user's profile once. In order to enhance that approach, a Multi Agent System (MAS) was chosen for its ability to deploy agents to monitor profiles continuously. Since MAS is difficult to implement correctly, a formal specification of an OSN System was constructed to help us investigate the feasibility of using MAS technology in retrieving historical information from OSN sites.