Community-based service location
Communications of the ACM
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Emergent properties of referral systems
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Memetic networks: analyzing the effects of network properties in multi-agent performance
AAAI'08 Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
COMPSAC-W'05 Proceedings of the 29th annual international conference on Computer software and applications conference
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We study peer-to-peer service networks consisting of autonomous agents who seek and provide information services. Agents potentially help each other by giving referrals to guide the search. Each agent autonomously decides whom to contact for a service and whom to provide a service or a referral. Service networks evolve as the agents change their neighbors to improve how their needs are fulfilled. If an agent autonomously decides to, it may cache some responses from other (information) services. We observe that even a small cache improves agentsý success in discovering needed services and enables a few initial service providers to serve the information needs of many. Caching induces clustering of agents based on interest.