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This paper discusses the problem of information fusion for agent-based information gathering systems. The framework of information gathering in multi-agent environments is presented firstly, and then a cooperative fusion algorithm is presented for unstructured documents. The performance is also made by the traditional methods precision and recall, and it shows that the fusion algorithm is efficient.
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Li, Y. (2001). Information Fusion for Intelligent Agent-Based Information Gathering. In: Zhong, N., Yao, Y., Liu, J., Ohsuga, S. (eds) Web Intelligence: Research and Development. WI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2198. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45490-X_55
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