Two-level Web agent for limited accessibility

Author

Yeh, Ping-Jer ; Yuan, Shyan-Ming ; Lo, Winston

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

1997

fDate

11-15 Aug 1997

Firstpage

482

Lastpage

485

Abstract

Many problems frustrate WWW users, who suffer limited accessibility to WWW resources, and so the authors propose a two-level agent architecture to try to solve them. The agent consists of two parts: the local agent interacts directly with end-users, while the remote agent interacts primarily with the public Internet. Together they learn user preferences, and help users find and filter information more efficiently, economically, and enjoyably. The paper introduces the concept of the two-level agent, and investigates practical issues involved in further design

Keywords

Internet; information needs; information retrieval; WWW resources; WWW users; end users; information filtering; information finding; limited accessibility; local agent; public Internet; remote agent; two-level Web agent architecture; user preference learning; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Costs; Environmental economics; Information filtering; Information filters; Information science; Internet; Web pages; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1997. COMPSAC '97. Proceedings., The Twenty-First Annual International

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8105-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1997.625054

Filename

625054