D-SIFTER: a collaborative information classifier

Author

Raje, Rajeev R. ; Mukhopadhyay, Snehasis ; Boyles, Michael ; Patel, Nila ; Mostafa, Javed

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Indiana Univ., Indianapolis, IN, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

9-12 Sep 1997

Firstpage

820

Abstract

The enormous growth of the World Wide Web has led to a vast amount of unsolicited information being transmitted to many users. Information filtering is a useful technique to combat such an undesired information overload. In this paper, we present a distributed environment for information classification, called D-SIFTER. D-SIFTER (distributed smart information filtering technology for electronic resources) consists of many networked filters communicating to achieve a collaborative classification of incoming documents. Our preliminary experiments show a 44% increase in the number of successful classifications in D-SIFTER as compared to the isolated environment called SIFTER (smart information filtering technology for electronic resources)

Keywords

Internet; classification; software agents; sorting; D-SIFTER; Information filtering; World Wide Web; collaborative classification; collaborative information classifier; distributed environment; distributed smart information filtering technology for electronic resources; incoming documents; information classification; information overload; networked filters; Collaboration; Computer networks; Frequency; Information filtering; Information filters; Information science; Isolation technology; Libraries; Thesauri; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 1997. ICICS., Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3676-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICS.1997.652093

Filename

652093