Agent-mediated personalised multimedia services

Marko Turpeinen
Laboratory of Information Processing Science
Helsinki University of Technology

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Problem definition and scope
  • 1.2 Related work
  • 1.3 Organisation of this document
• 2. Multimedia marketplace
  • 2.1 What is multimedia?
  • 2.2 Information supermarket
    • 2.2.1 Structure of the information marketplace
    • 2.2.2 Consumption and production of information services
    • 2.2.3 Electronic market evolution
    • 2.2.4 Evolution of the online services
    • 2.2.5 Size of the electronic market
  • 2.3 Distributed multimedia services
• 3. Agent-based services
  • 3.1 What is an agent?
  • 3.2 Interface agent
  • 3.3 Information agent
    • 3.3.1 Information gatherers
    • 3.3.2 Information brokers
    • 3.3.3 Navigators
  • 3.4 Mobile agents
• 4. Personalisation and information filtering
  • 4.1 Personalisation of multimedia services
    • 4.1.1 User disposition
    • 4.1.2 Time scale
    • 4.1.3 Information delivery
    • 4.1.4 Information content
  • 4.2 Information filtering
  • 4.3 Agent-based information filtering applications
    • 4.3.1 NewsHound
    • 4.3.2 Newt
    • 4.3.3 Ringo
    • 4.3.4 GroupLens
• 5. Architecture for personalised multimedia services
  • 5.1 Agents - mediators of the media
  • 5.2 Service architecture
  • 5.3 Consumer agent
  • 5.4 Producer agent
  • 5.5 User modeling and learning
  • 5.6 Metadata
  • 5.7 Dynamic multimedia services
    • 5.7.1 Requirements
    • 5.7.2 Multimedia protocol model
  • 5.8 Scalability
• 6. Agentware - tools for distributed programming
  • 6.1 Agent-oriented programming
  • 6.2 KQML - Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language
  • 6.3 Safe-Tcl
  • 6.4 Java
  • 6.5 Telescript
• 7. Recommendations
  • 7.1 Personalised OtaOnline news agent
  • 7.2 Agent-mediated advertising
• 8. Summary
• References