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ABSTRACT: As we enter the 21 st century, our dependency on the Internet is going to increase each day. This observation has inspired many researchers to invest their efforts into the development of efficient Web-based computing paradigms. JavaRMI is one alternative offered by Sun Microsystems. Using Java-RMI, a software developer can easily design and develop collaborative systems. In this article, we describe the use of Java-RMI in designing a collaborative information classifier, called D-SIFTER. We also present the principles of RMI, the details of our prototype, and some of the results from the preliminary experiments with it.
06/1999;
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ABSTRACT: The enormous growth of the World Wide Web has led to a vast amount of unsolicited information being transmitted to many users. Information filtering is a useful technique to combat such an undesired information overload. In this paper, we present a distributed environment for information classification, called D-SIFTER. D-SIFTER (Distributed Smart Information Filtering Technology for Electronic Resources) consists of many networked filters communicating to achieve a collaborative classification of incoming documents. Our preliminary experiments show a 44% increase in the number of successful classifications in D-SIFTER as compared to the isolated environment called SIFTER (Smart Information Filtering Technology for Electronic Resources).
06/1999;
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ABSTRACT: The impact of the World Wide Web on providing an easy information access is clearly evident in all aspects of today's life. As attractive as the information availability is, due to its sheer volume, it creates an information-overload on users. Agent based collaborative filtering is a technique used to effectively counter this burden. For agents to collaborate successfully, and maintain an overall progress of the entire interconnected environment, a governing mechanism is necessary. In this article, we present an economic framework based on a bidding mechanism for agents to communicate and negotiate with each other, thereby achieving collaborative information classification. D-SIFTER, a system developed using this economic framework, is described along with various experiments and their results.
06/1999;
