Multiagent systems have been a fascination for research community and are often seen as an intelligent solution to many complex real world problems. Researchers have been active in the domain since last three decades and many developments pertaining to theoretical design and practical...

Existing focused crawlers (FCs) are based upon fixed model of web and thus are deficient in using available information. The premise of this paper is that ontology can play an important role in enhancing the efficiency of existing agent based focused crawlers. The paper proposes an ontology...

The Semantic Web (SW) deals with transforming the information-oriented web into a knowledge-oriented web. SW makes product and service information more abundant and improves search mechanisms thus resulting in user satisfaction, but lack of standard ontologies and communication interface for a...