Customisable off-line Web browsing with mobile software agents

This paper presents a server-side multi-agent architecture aimed at increasing the efficiency of Internet browsing. The agent system uses the user profile to monitor the user´s favourite Web sites, to construct customised views of those sites, and to inform the user through a Web interface. The proposed agent architecture allows customisation of the user´s preferences, providing the user with a virtual home environment for the Web. It therefore optimises the user´s regular browsing pattern in a location transparent manner. After describing a prototype implementation, the paper discusses architectural alternatives aimed at improving its scalability