Intelligent agents for matching information providers and consumers on the World-Wide-Web

Author

Lee, Joseph K W ; Cheung, David W. ; Kao, Ben ; Law, Jax ; Lee, Thomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Hong Kong Univ., Hong Kong

Volume

4

fYear

1997

Firstpage

189

Abstract

We discuss the various issues in designing intelligent software systems to assist World Wide Web users in locating relevant information. We identify a number of key components in such intelligent systems. These include a Web document database management system, a client based goal directed search engine, an intelligent learning agent which discovers users´ topics of interest by studying their browsing behavior, and an intelligent agent which monitors “hot” Web sites. We give examples and suggestions on how these components are designed and implemented. We also describe the architecture of a prototype system that integrates the various components

Keywords

Internet; client-server systems; distributed databases; information retrieval; online front-ends; software agents; Web document database management system; World Wide Web users; World-Wide-Web; browsing behavior; client based goal directed search engine; consumers; hot Web site monitoring; information providers; intelligent agents; intelligent learning agent; intelligent software systems design; intelligent systems; prototype system; Computer science; Database systems; Information management; Information retrieval; Intelligent agent; Intelligent systems; Navigation; Software design; Software systems; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1997, Proceedings of the Thirtieth Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI

ISSN

1060-3425

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7743-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1997.663380

Filename

663380