Distributed user interest modeling and WWW reference locator
| dc.contributor.author | Card, Paul | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-07-12T19:41:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-07-12T19:41:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Electrical and Computer Engineering | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Science (M.Sc.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Web caching attempts to keep copies of popular content in a local cache. This should save the cost of a later download by the same or another user. Studies in world wide web (WWW) request patterns have indicated that 70% of requests from a web caching group are one time references. This implies that in a group of people there is very little overlap in the content they view. This thesis describes a system that helps increase the overlap of the pages viewed by a local cache group. It works by passive learning what each user is interested in and builds a small database of the sites that they find to be good references. It then shares these databases with other users with similar interests. This shows promise of becoming a much faster and more accurate watt of finding references compared to search engines. It also has application in e-commerce as on-line businesses are very interested in their visitors interests. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) | en_US |
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| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/2674 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.title | Distributed user interest modeling and WWW reference locator | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |