@article{Du_Xu_Wang_2017, title={A Novel Cooperation and Competition Strategy Among Multi-Agent Crawlers}, volume={35}, url={https://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/1590}, abstractNote={Multi-Agent theory which is used for communication and collaboration among focused crawlers has been proved that it can improve the precision of returned result significantly. In this paper, we proposed a new organizational structure of multi-agent for focused crawlers, in which the agents were divided into three categories, namely F-Agent (Facilitator-Agent), As-Agent (Assistance-Agent) and C-Agent (Crawler-Agent). They worked on their own responsibilities and cooperated mutually to complete a common task of web crawling. In our proposed architecture of focused crawlers based on multi-agent system, we emphasized discussing the collaborative process among multiple agents. To control the cooperation among agents, we proposed a negotiation protocol based on the contract net protocol and achieved the collaboration model of focused crawlers based on multi-agent by JADE. At last, the comparative experiment results showed that our focused crawlers had higher precision and efficiency than other crawlers using the algorithms with breadth-first, best-first, etc.}, number={5}, journal={COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS}, author={Du, Yajun and Xu, Yong and Wang, Min}, year={2017}, month={Feb.}, pages={1050–1078} }