Automated information mediator for HTML and XML based web information delivery service

  • Authors:
  • Sung Sik Park;Yang Sok Kim;Gil Cheol Park;Byeong Ho Kang;Paul Compton

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia;School of Computing, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia;School of Information & Multimedia, Hannam University, Daejeon, Korea;School of Computing, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia;School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • AI'05 Proceedings of the 18th Australian Joint conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The World Wide Web (Web) was not designed to ‘push’ information to clients but for clients to ‘pull’ information from servers (providers). This type of technology is not efficient in prompt information delivery from changing sources. Recently, XML-based ‘RSS’, or ‘Weblog’, has become popular, because they simulate real time information delivery using automated client pull technology. However, this is still inefficient because people have to manually manage large quantities of Web information, causing information overflow. Secondly, most current Web information still uses HTML instead of XML. Our automated information mediator (AIMS) collects new information from both traditional HTML sites and XML sites and alleviates the information overload problem by using narrowcasting from the server side, and information filtering from the client side using Multiple Classification Ripple-Down Rules (MCRDR) knowledge acquisition for document classification. The approach overcomes the traditional knowledge acquisition problem with an exception based knowledge representation and case based validation and verification. By employing this approach, the system allows domain experts, or even naive end users to manage their knowledge and personalize their agent system without help from a knowledge engineer.