Population Control for Multi-agent Based Topical Crawlers

The use of multi-agent topical Web crawlers based on the endogenous fitness model raises the problem of controlling the population of agents. We tackle this question through an energy based model to balance the reproduction/life expectancy of agents. Our goal is to simplify the tuning of parameters...

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Main Authors: Mouton, A., Marteau, P.-F.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Automatic control
Cloning
Control systems
Crawlers
endogenous fitness
Energy conservation
Intelligent agent
Intelligent systems
multi-agent
population control
Size control
Text processing
topical crawling
Web pages
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Summary:The use of multi-agent topical Web crawlers based on the endogenous fitness model raises the problem of controlling the population of agents. We tackle this question through an energy based model to balance the reproduction/life expectancy of agents. Our goal is to simplify the tuning of parameters and to optimize the use of resources available for the crawling. We introduce an energy based model designed to control the number of agents according to the precision of the crawling. We present some experiments that show that the size of the population remains under control during the crawling.
ISSN:2164-7143
2164-7151
DOI:10.1109/ISDA.2008.111