Honeybee search strategies: adaptive exploration of an information ecosystem

Adaptive techniques are employed to continuously disperse Web explorers within an information ecosystem - the Internet - to serve the needs of the Tocorime Apicu search engine in its search for the perpetually-changing Web documents and sources which are prone to drastic alteration over a relatively short period of time. Web explorers discover and sample the contents of Internet service providers which host Web services in order to formulate customized routes (up-to-date Internet service provider lookup tables) which enable efficacious retrieval of Web pages by detecting and avoiding areas of congestion within the Internet. Aspects of foraging honeybees were emulated to facilitate customized routing and congestion avoidance. This exploration model forms a crucial component of the Tocorime Apicu search engine which builds the document warehouse for the Web page indexers. The exploration model is partitioned into disjoint exploration groups which are, in turn, restricted to sectors of the Internet - this limiting their activities to those HTML providers located within its particular assigned area. Experimental results are presented.