Web Browser Intelligence: opening up the Web

Author

Barrett, R. ; Maglio, P.P. ; Kellem, D.C.

Author_Institution

IBM Almaden Res. Center, San Jose, CA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

23-26 Feb. 1997

Firstpage

122

Lastpage

123

Abstract

The World-Wide Web has brought us two important resources: ubiquitous browsers and a global information repository. In the current model, these two resources are tightly coupled. By introducing the concept of a programmable intermediary between browser and server, Web Browser Intelligence (WBI) has relaxed this coupling. WBI allows the browser to execute arbitrarily complex commands using the network of Web servers as an information resource. This architecture enables automatic personalization of the Web for individual users, automatic restructuring of information on servers, and collaboration among Web users.

Keywords

Internet; information retrieval; online front-ends; parallel programming; Web Browser Intelligence; Web servers; World-Wide Web; arbitrarily complex commands; automatic personalization; automatic restructuring; collaboration; global information repository; information resource; programmable intermediary; ubiquitous browsers; Collaborative work; Displays; Distributed information systems; HTML; History; Indexing; Network servers; Protocols; Uniform resource locators; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon '97. Proceedings, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA, USA

ISSN

1063-6390

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7804-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1997.584683

Filename

584683