Architecting personalized delivery of multimedia information

Abstract

Shoshana Loeb information filters are essential mediators between information sources and their users. In most cases, both the information sources and the information users possess no mutual knowledge that can guide them in finding the information most relevant for the users' momentary and long-term needs. Filters, which are positioned logically as "third parties" to the communication between users and sources, should possess both the knowledge and the functionality to examine the information in the sources and to forward the information "they judge" as relevant to individual users.