Title :
Two-level Web agent for limited accessibility
Author :
Yeh, Ping-Jer ; Yuan, Shyan-Ming ; Lo, Winston
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
Many problems frustrate WWW users, who suffer limited accessibility to WWW resources, and so the authors propose a two-level agent architecture to try to solve them. The agent consists of two parts: the local agent interacts directly with end-users, while the remote agent interacts primarily with the public Internet. Together they learn user preferences, and help users find and filter information more efficiently, economically, and enjoyably. The paper introduces the concept of the two-level agent, and investigates practical issues involved in further design
Keywords :
Internet; information needs; information retrieval; WWW resources; WWW users; end users; information filtering; information finding; limited accessibility; local agent; public Internet; remote agent; two-level Web agent architecture; user preference learning; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Costs; Environmental economics; Information filtering; Information filters; Information science; Internet; Web pages; World Wide Web;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1997. COMPSAC '97. Proceedings., The Twenty-First Annual International
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8105-5
DOI :
10.1109/CMPSAC.1997.625054