Personal Adaptive Web agent: a tool for information filtering

Author

Khan, I. ; Card, H.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Manitoba Univ., Winnipeg, Man., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

25-28 May 1997

Firstpage

305

Abstract

This paper highlights the problem of information overload and recall on the WWW. It briefly mentions four categories of solutions which are: Search Engines, Personal Homepages, Information Management Tools, and Information Retrieval Agents. The paper also presents our own framework of a Personal Adaptive Web (PAW) agent and its current results. Our agent uses a real-time database, automatic text analysis, a competitive learning network, and fuzzy logic to learn the different categories of Web documents that the user is interested in, then finds and suggests new similar documents

Keywords

Internet; document handling; fuzzy logic; inference mechanisms; information analysis; information retrieval systems; neural nets; software agents; unsupervised learning; Personal Adaptive Web; WWW; Web document classification; automatic text analysis; competitive learning network; database; fuzzy inference system; fuzzy logic; information filtering agent; neural network; real-time system; Databases; Fuzzy logic; Information filtering; Information management; Information retrieval; Plasma welding; Publishing; Search engines; Text analysis; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1997. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. IEEE 1997 Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

St. Johns, Nfld.

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3716-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.1997.614850

Filename

614850