Web-agents inspired by ethology: a population of ``ant''-like agents to help finding user-oriented information

Arnaud Revel (1)

1 ETIS - UMR 8051 - Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes

In this article, we present a web-search ant-agent inspired by ethology and robotics. We detail its implementation on a set of FIPAOS platforms and show useful results in route finding and re-routing. Finally, we discuss its interest and drawbacks in comparison with classical search engines and give perspectives to overcome them.

Mots clés: Intelligence artificielle et robotique; Apprentissage; Communication homme machine; Machines intelligentes et robotique; Perception et représentations

Domaines: Informatique

Arnaud Revel. Web-agents inspired by ethology: a population of ``ant''-like agents to help finding user-oriented information. IEEE WIC'2003 : International Conference on Web Intelligence., 2003, Halifax, Canada. pp.482- 485, ⟨10.1109/WI.2003.1241245⟩. ⟨hal-00426267⟩