Alipes: A Swift Messenger in Cyberspace
Dwi Hendratmo Widyantoro, Jianwen Yin, Anna Zacchi, John Yen · 1999
Finding relevant information effectively on the Internet is a challenging task. Although the information is widely available, exploring Web sites and selecting the right document are still considered a time consuming and tedious task. As a result, many software agents have been launched in cyberspace to perform autonomous information gathering and filtering on behalf of its users. One of the important issues for these agents is to adapt to the changing interests of the users. In this paper, we present Alipes, an Information Brokering Agent that learns user's interests and provides personalized news articles retrieved from the Internet. Introduction The number of information sources available on the Web is growing by the minute. The more the Internet grows, the more difficult it is to find the information we are looking for. Although search engines facilitate finding Web sites related to given keywords, it cannot proactively deliver information to users on a regular basis. A major ch...