A MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FOR MULTIMEDIAINFORMATION RETRIEVAL INELECTRONIC RETAILING

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to describe a multi-agent system for collaborative multimedia information retrievalrnin an electronic retailing application. We use content-based information (CBIR) retrieval for multimedia datarnincluding full-texts and images. Content-based image retrieval deals with retrieving data based on automaticrncontent analysis as opposed to manual annotations, such as metadata specifications. While both collaborativernagent technology and content-based information retrieval have been developed in previous research, fewrnpapers have attempted to combine both technologies in the same problem area. In this paper we describe arncollaborative multi-agent system for multimedia information retrieval in an electronic commerce application.