Intelligent Media Agents: Key technology for Interactive Television, Multimedia and Internet Applications

✍ Scribed by Hartmut Wittig (auth.)

• Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 188
• Series: Multimedia Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intelligent agents are rescuer in the information glut. They help users to find information which better corresponds to their interests and needs. This book describes the architecture and basic modules of an intelligent media agent. A personal television guide is described as an example of intelligent help, addressing the problem of managing TV channels by using an intelligent agent.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Towards Personal Television Systems....Pages 17-30
Requirements....Pages 31-38
Agent Run-Time Environment....Pages 39-46
Architecture of the Intelligent Media Agent....Pages 47-53
Program Descriptors and User Profiles....Pages 55-71
Matching and Clustering....Pages 73-90
Profile Initialization and Update....Pages 91-101
Decision Support System....Pages 103-110
Implementation and Testing....Pages 111-134
Conclusions....Pages 135-139
Back Matter....Pages 140-176

✦ Subjects

Engineering, general