摘要 |
An agent generated based on a request made by a user accesses an object server on a wide area network to obtain necessary information. If sufficient information cannot be obtained from a database in a certain server, the agent obtains knowledge about an information source previously accessed by another agent by referencing a path information table, and accesses another server based on the knowledge. Thus, the information collection is made more efficient by making the most of the knowledge of other agents.
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