An object-oriented architecture for intelligent virtual receptionists

  • Authors:
  • Hsiangchu Lai

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Electronic Commerce - Special issue: Intelligent agents for electronic commerce
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Because of the rapid proliferation of Web sites, the question of how a Web site can attract repeat visits has become an important problem. One approach is to treat each visitor to the site as a unique individual, much as a human receptionist would treat each client-customer. This paper proposes an object-oriented architecture for developing virtual receptionists for this purpose. All necessary object classes, their interactions, and the database schema are defined, and an example is provided. This object-oriented design provides a foundation that allows the virtual agent to be easily modified.