Customisable off-line Web browsing with mobile software agents

Author

Yew, A. ; Pavlou, G.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Inf. Technol., Surrey Univ., Guildford, UK

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

102

Lastpage

108

Abstract

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

Keywords

Internet; client-server systems; land mobile radio; mobile computing; software agents; Internet browsing; Web interface; agent architecture; agent system; architectural alternatives; customisation; customised views; efficiency; favourite Web sites; mobile software agents; off-line Web browsing; prototype implementation; regular browsing pattern; scalability; server-side multi-agent architecture; user profile; virtual home environment; Computer architecture; Footwear; Information technology; Marketing and sales; Portals; Service oriented architecture; Software agents; Uniform resource locators; Web and internet services; Web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Portability and Virtual Customer Environments, 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7133-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPVCE.2000.934168

Filename

934168