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The World Wide Web is the largest collection of documents that ever existed. Users of this information space do need tools for simple and powerful retrieval of the information they are interested in. But the existing search tools have turned out to be insufficient. They either do not scale with the large amount of available data or their results are of low quality.
We present a new concept for information retrieval in the World Wide Web which satisfies both quality and efficiency. So-called domain experts acquire knowledge about specific domains. They use mobile agents to investigate the Web for documents relevant to their domain. By storing this knowledge, experts can answer future queries directly without any remote actions.
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Theilmann, W., Rothermel, K. (1998). Domain experts for information retrieval in the World Wide Web. In: Klusch, M., Weiß, G. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents II Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet. CIA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1435. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053687
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