Title

Autonomous search for information in an unknown environment

Authors

Authors

E. Gelenbe

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Keywords

Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science, Information; Systems

Abstract

The search for information in a complex information space such as the Web or large digital libraries, or in an unkown robotics environment - requires the design of efficient and intelligent strategies for (1) determining regions of interest, (2) detecting and classifying information of interest, and (3) searching the space by autonomous agents. This paper discusses strategies for directing autonomous search based on spatiotemporal distributions. We discuss a model for search assuming that the environment is static, and where the information that agents have is updated as they pursue their discovery of the environment. Autonomous search algorithms are designed and compared using simulations.

Journal Title

Cooperative Information Agents Iii, Proceedings

Volume

1652

Publication Date

1-1-1999

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

47

Last Page

60

WOS Identifier

WOS:000088970300003

ISSN

0302-9743; 3-540-66325-8

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