Information Retrieval Multi-Agent System Using Web Services

Information Retrieval Systems are playing in importantrole for every Internet user since the World-Wide-Web has startedflourishing with enormous information resources of differentsectors and trends that can give public knowledge and know-how.As the current industrial and business trend is not only providingknowledge but also supporting service, Web Service technologybecomes popular because it is standards-based realization of theservice-oriented computing (SOC) paradigm, which has emerged inresponse to a fundamental shift in the way enterprises conducttheir business. Retrieving desired specific information and facts onthe Web cannot be done by single Web Service. So there should bea possibility to combine existing related Web Services in order tofulfill user requests. To compose Web Services, Multi-Agent Systemcan give a great help. In order to construct a Multi-Agent Systemfrom a collection of Web Services, we propose an Agent Algorithmand a Web Services Based IR framework. The implementation andtesting of this system utilizes the real datasets of clinics in theYangon area