Adaptive Information Searching on Internet Based on User Personal Information.

Accession number;99A0938110
Title;Adaptive Information Searching on Internet Based on User Personal Information.
Author; OKADA SHIMOE R S (Tohoku Univ.)
Journal Title;Record of Electrical and Communication Engineering Conversazione, Tohoku University
Journal Code:F0511A
ISSN:0385-7719
VOL.68;NO.1;PAGE.173-176(1999)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.4, TBL.1, REF.2
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;English
Abstract;With the explosion in the amount of electronically available information on the network, it is becoming more and more difficult for a user to find his desired information. Intelligent software agents will provide this necessary help to navigate in the world-wide network of information. In this thesis, we first review the agent-based information locating systems and present our view of the trends of agent technologies supporting users in finding information on distributed heterogeneous environments. Next, we tackle the problem of customization of information gathering results to user personal tastes. For this, we propose a new method to customize the information searching on Internet. Finally, we investigate the issues associated with the exchange of information learned by agents belonging to different users, in order to improve the slow initial learning curve problem for the learning systems. (author abst.)