Web Information Integration Using Multiple Character Agents

The World Wide Web contains a vast amount of various information stored in a huge number of distributed web sites. Search engines and information agents have been developed to facilitate efficient information retrieval tasks from the web. By integrating multiple search engines and information agents as an interoperable system, we increase each value of them. In conventional information integration systems, the integration process is designed by system designers and is concealed from the end users.

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