Multi-agent information classification using dynamic acquaintance lists

Authors:
Snehasis Mukhopadhyay;Shengquan Peng;Rajeev Raje;Mathew Palakal;Javed Mostafa
Affiliations:
Department of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 723 West Michigan Street SL 280, Indianapolis, IN;Department of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 723 West Michigan Street SL 280, Indianapolis, IN;Department of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 723 West Michigan Street SL 280, Indianapolis, IN;Department of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 723 West Michigan Street SL 280, Indianapolis, IN;Laboratory of Applied Informatics Research, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Venue:
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Year:
2003

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Abstract

There has been considerable interest in recent years in providing automated information services, such as information classification, by means of a society of collaborative agents. These agents augment each other's knowledge structures (e.g., the vocabularies) and assist each other in providing efficient information services to a human user. However, when the number of agents present in the society increases, exhaustive communication and collaboration among agents result in a large communication overhead and increased delays in response time. This paper introduces a method to achieve selective interaction with a relatively small number of potentially useful agents, based on simple agent modeling and acquaintance lists. The key idea presented here is that the acquaintance list of an agent, representing a small number of other agents to be collaborated with, is dynamically adjusted. The best acquaintances are automatically discovered using a learning algorithm, based on the past history of collaboration. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate that such dynamically learned acquaintance lists can lead to high quality of classification, while significantly reducing the delay in response time.