Automatic text processing
Dynamic partitioning of signature files
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
A survey of information retrieval and filtering methods
A survey of information retrieval and filtering methods
Electronic commerce and the Internet
Communications of the ACM
Inverted files versus signature files for text indexing
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
WebACE: a Web agent for document categorization and exploration
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
Proceedings of the ninth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
Retriever: an agent for intelligent information recovery
ICIS '99 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Information Systems
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The amount of information available in on-line shops and catalogues is rapidly increasing. A single on-line catalogue may contain thousands of products thus posing the increasing need for fast and efficient methods for information filtering and retrieval. Intelligent agent communities may prove to be the needed item in transforming passive search and retrieval engines into active, evolving, personal assistants. In this paper we present a multi-agent architecture for an on-line shop and we propose new methods for performance balancing between filtering, retrieval, ranking, and server catalogue restructuring. This novel approach to multi-agent e-commerce systems provides intelligent, adaptive and personalised navigation within large hypertext environments useful for a wide range of Electronic Commerce applications.