Agents in Delivering Personalized Content Based on Semantic Metadata
T. Kurki, Sami Jokela, Reijo Sulonen, Marko Turpeinen · 1999
In the SmartPush project professional editors add semantic metadata to information flow when the content is created. This metadata is used to filter the information flow to provide the end users with a personalized news service. Personalization and delivery process is modeled as software agents, to whom the user delegates the task of sifting through incoming information. The key components of the SmartPush architecture have been implemented, and the focus in the project is shifting towards a pilot implementation and testing the ideas in practice. Introduction Internet and online distribution are changing the rules of professional publishing. Physical constraints of media products are not any more the key factors in the publishing process. In newspaper publishing, the bottleneck was what could fit in the paper. Today publishers are capable of creating more content, but they need new methods for personalized distribution. Incremental price for publishing on the Internet is neg...