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Data sources are often dispersed geographically in real life applications. Finding a knowledge model may require to join all the data sources and to run a machine learning algorithm on the joint set. We present an alternative based on a Multi Agent System (MAS): an agent mines one data source in order to extract a local theory (knowledge model) and then merges it with the previous MAS theory using a knowledge fusion technique. This way, we obtain a global theory that summarizes the distributed knowledge without spending resources and time in joining data sources. The results show that, as a result of knowledge fusion, the accuracy of initial theories is improved as well as the accuracy of the monolithic solution.
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Gaya, M.C., Giraldez, J.I. (2008). Experiments in Multi Agent Learning. In: Corchado, E., Abraham, A., Pedrycz, W. (eds) Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems. HAIS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5271. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87656-4_11
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