Agent-based adaptive interface for multimedia Web services

The explosive growth of the Internet and the Web services technology provides the underpinnings to multimedia web services. However, due to the rich media types in multimedia content and the diversity and heterogeneity in terms of the types of client devices and network connections as well as the special needs and preferences that end users might have, it is very difficult and expensive to provide interface separately for each individual user. Therefore, technologies that can enable universal access the services through an adaptive interface would become critical in the coming pervasive computing era. Further more, customers´ requirements and business rules change more often, the need for adaptability in the service level is becoming manifest. In this work, an agent-based adaptive interface is proposed for multimedia Web services. Three intelligent agents: user model agent, content adaptation agent and service agent are introduced and embedded into the interface