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X-Compass: An XML Agent for Supporting User Navigation on the Web

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Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2002)

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In this paper we present X-Compass,an XML agent for supporting a user during her/his navigation on theWeb. This agent is the result of our attempt of synthesizing, in a unique context, important guidelines currently characterizing the research in various Computer Science sectors. X-Compass constructs and handles a rather rich, even if light, user profile. This latter is, then, exploited for supporting the user in the efficient search of information of her/his interest; in this way,the proposed agent behaves as a content-based recommender system. Moreover, X-Compass is particularly suited for constructing multi-agent systems and, therefore, for implementing collaborative filtering recommendation techniques. In addition, being based on XML, X-Compass is particularly light and capable of operating on various hardware and software platforms. Finally,the exploitation of XML makes the information exchange among X-Compass agents and, therefore, the management and the exploitation of X-Compass multi-agent systems, easy .

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  1. DIMET - Università “Mediterranea” di Reggio Calabria Via Graziella, Lo calità Feo di Vito, 89060, Reggio Calabria, Italy

    Salvatore Garruzzo, Stefano Modafferi, Domenico Rosaci & Domenico Ursino

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jaime G. Carbonell

  2. University of Saarland, Saabrücken, Germany

    Jörg Siekmann

  3. Roskilde University, Building 42-1, P.O. Box 260, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen  & Henning Christiansen  & 

  4. Department of Information and Software Engineering School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, 22030-4444, Virginia, USA

    Amihai Motro

  5. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Niels Bohrs Vej 8, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

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Garruzzo, S., Modafferi, S., Rosaci, D., Ursino, D. (2002). X-Compass: An XML Agent for Supporting User Navigation on the Web. In: Carbonell, J.G., Siekmann, J., Andreasen, T., Christiansen, H., Motro, A., Legind Larsen, H. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2522. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36109-X_16

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