| Author | Lin, Xu |
| Call Number | AIT RSPR no. IM-99-03 |
| Subject(s) | Teleshopping
|
| Note | A research study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Advanced of Technologies |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Research studies project report ; no. IM-99-03 |
| Abstract | The World-Wide-Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on
the Web is presented in loosely structured natural language text with no agent-readable
semantics. HTML annotations structure the display of Web pages, but they provide virtually
no insight into their content.
The study illustrates the use of comparison-shopping agent. Given the homepages of
several online shops, it can autonomously learn how to shop at those vendors. After learning,
it is able to extract product information, and summarize the results for the user. A search
engine's architecture was studied in details. This search engine can achieve this performance
without sophisticated language processing, and require only minimal knowledge about
different product domains. The on-line bookstores were selected for this study. The search
engine relies on a combination of heuristic search, pattern matching, and inductive learning
techniques. |
| Year | 1999 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Research studies project report ; no. IM-99-03 |
| Type | Research Study Project Report (RSPR) |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies (SAT) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Information Management (IM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Vatcharaporn Esichaikul; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Batanov, Dentcho N.;Devadason, Francis J.; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Asian Institute of Technology Partial
Scholarship; |
| Degree | Research studies project report (M. Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1999 |