A multi-agent system architecture for geographic information gathering.
World Wide Web (WWW) is a vast repository of information, including a great deal of geographic information. But the location and retrieval of geographic information will require a significant amount of time and effort. In addition, different users usually have different views and interests in the same information. To resolve such problems, this paper first proposed a model of geographic information gathering based on multi-Agent (MA) architecture. Then based on this model, we construct a prototype system with GML (Geography Markup Language). This system consists of three tiers-Client, Web Server and Data Resource. Finally, we expatiate on the process of Web Server.
Gao
Gang-Yi
GY
College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. ggy0222@sina.com.
Wang
Shen-Kang
SK
D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface