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In the last few years, there has seen a marked increase in the usage of Online Social Networks (OSN). Coping with the real time changes of a huge amount of personal information requires new methods for retrieving information. Our previous approach for retrieving information from OSN was a centralized system that controlled and retrieved information of each user’s profile once. In order to enhance that approach, a Multi Agent System (MAS) was chosen for its ability to deploy agents to monitor profiles continuously. Since MAS is difficult to implement correctly, a formal specification of an OSN System was constructed to help us investigate the feasibility of using MAS technology in retrieving historical information from OSN sites.
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Abdulrahman, R., Holton, D.R.W., Neagu, D., Ridley, M. (2011). Formal Specification of Multi Agent System for Historical Information Retrieval from Online Social Networks. In: O’Shea, J., Nguyen, N.T., Crockett, K., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications. KES-AMSTA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6682. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22000-5_10
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