TY  - JOUR
AU  - Sato, Fabien-Kenzo 
AU  - Pierre, Samuel 
AU  - Glitho, Roch H. 
PY  - 2005
TI  - Retrieving Information from the Invisible Web Using Mobile Agents
JF  - Journal of Computer Science
VL  - 1
IS  - 2
DO  - 10.3844/jcssp.2005.283.289
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/jcssp.2005.283.289
AB  - This study proposes a model of information retrieval on the invisible Web by using the
mobile agent paradigm. The developed architecture uses the power of a search engine to provide a list
of sites of the invisible Web which are likely to be relevant and launches a dynamic search on these
sites, thanks to mobile agents. To compare and experiment in real conditions, two versions were
implemented: a version using the traditional client/server paradigm and a version using mobile agents.
Client/server tests on actual Websites generated satisfactory qualitative results. A series of comparative
experiments of the two versions implemented were carried out using a test site. Results show that the
mobile agent version generates much less traffic and is thus faster than the client/server version,
especially with low bandwidth. Moreover, as the mobile agents carry out calculations on the server
rather than on the client’s site, this approach relieves the resources of the client terminal. Thus, the mobile agent approach seems particularly advantageous in the case of weak resource terminals such as PDAs.