BROADWAY: A World Wide Web Browsing Advisor Reusing Past Navigations from a Group of Users
Michel Jaczynski, Brigitte Trousse · 1998
: The World Wide Web is a huge hypermedia where finding relevant documents is not an easy task. In this paper, we present our case-based browsing advisor, called BROADWAY. BROADWAY follows a group of users during their navigations on the WWW (proxy-based architecture) and advise them by displaying a list of potentially relevant documents to visit next. BROADWAY uses case-based reasoning to reuse precise experiences derived from past navigations with a time-extended situation assessment: the advice are based mainly on similarity of ordered sequence of past accessed documents. In addition, the dynamic of the WWW is addressed in the reuse step and with a specific method for case forgetting. 1. Introduction The World Wide Web (WWW) [14] is an hypermedia of heterogeneous and dynamic documents. This virtual space is growing more and more every day, offering to the user a huge amount of data [3]. Two kinds of methods can be used to locate a relevant document through this space: querying and...