Agent Based Information Retrieval In Government Sector Websites Of Pakistan

Abstract

In this era of information technology, technology becomes an inseparable entity in human lives. The information technology and information and communication technology is diversely affecting the human lives both in positive and negative aspects. The new trends in these technologies and their impact on the human race enforces researchers and developers to come across new better techniques. E-Government is initiated with the aim to use the information technology, information and communication technology and wide variety of web-services to encourage involvement of the different stakeholders and enhance the performance of the government. The E-Government directorate under the supervision of ministry of information, approves a strategic plan for e-government. As part of the strategic planning, ministries are developing and launching their websites. This thesis attempts to bring attention towards the importance of search feature in the websites and quality of these websites are evaluated on the basis of an ISO/IEC25010-11 standard. This thesis will highlight the importance of search functionality in e-government. Moreover, an agent based information retrieval system GOWAIR is proposed and implemented to handle the issue of search functionality. At the end, an evaluation is carried out and mention results obtained.