An agent architecture for personalized Web stores
Liliana Ardissono, Cristina Barbero, Anna Goy, Giovanni Petrone · 1999
We describe the architecture of a conl$urable Web store support.ingpersonalized interact.ionswith users.Our system exploits user modeling and flexible hypermedia techniques to tailor to the user the suggestion of goods and the description of the store catalog.Customizing the system's behavior requires the parallel execution of several complex tasks during the interaction (e.g.identifying the user's preferences and dynamically generating the hypertextual pages of the store catalog).We argue that only an architecture composed of specialized ngrnts mn succcssfillly carry on t.hese tasks.Our system is developed in a Java-based environment using tools for building interoperable, agent-based systems (e.g.JDBC drivers for database independence; Voyager for the multiagent architecture).The system architecture includes an instance of each specialized agent and an agent which enables the communication among the others.