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Content-based filtering of Web documents: the MaX system and the EUFORBIA project

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Internet filtering has particular requirements which traditional access control approaches cannot satisfy. In this paper, we present a multi-strategy filtering model tailored specifically to both digital library and Web environments whose key features are the support for credential and content-based filtering and its full integration with standard Internet rating systems. Moreover, we describe the prototype system implementing our model and developed in the framework of the European project EUFORBIA.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico, 39/41, 20135, Milano, Italy

    Elisa Bertino & Andrea Perego

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Fisiche e Matematiche, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Via Valleggio, 11, 22100, Como, Italy

    Elena Ferrari

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Bertino, E., Ferrari, E. & Perego, A. Content-based filtering of Web documents: the MaX system and the EUFORBIA project. IJIS 2, 45–58 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-003-0024-6

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