Intelligent Media Agents: Key Technology for Interactive Television, Multimedia and Internet Applications: Wittig, Hartmut: 9783528057060: Book: Computers: eCampus.com

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.

Describes the architecture and basic modules of an intelligent media agent. Provides a description of intelligent agent, multimedia architectures, and software technologies. Covers innovative technologies for designing and implementing future key applications in the intenet, intranets and extranets. Softcover.

Introduction

(16)

Research in Interactive Television Systems

(2)

Applications

(6)

Television and Interactive Television

(4)

Value-Added Services

(2)

The Problem of an Information Glut

(3)

Motivation for TV Program Selection

(2)

Program Search in Television Systems

(1)

Need for Agent-based Systems

(1)

Overview

(3)

Towards Personal Television Systems

(14)

Software Agent Definition

(4)

Agency

(1)

Intelligence

(1)

Mobility

(1)

Related Work

(1)

Practical Issues and Examples

(4)

Adoption of User Interfaces/Dialogs

(1)

Shopping and Other Interactive Services Support

(1)

Software Agents for Information Retrieval

(1)

Personal EPG and Movie Generation

(2)

Intelligent Agent Research Applied to Television

(6)

Movie Select

(1)

Movie Recommendation System (MORSE)

(1)

Siemens Personal Newspaper

(1)

Evaluation

(3)

Requirements

(8)

Requirements to Multimedia Environments

(1)

Customizing

(1)

Portability

(1)

Modifiability

(1)

Multiple Application Support

(1)

Distributed vs. Local Processing

(1)

Requirements to Program Provision

(1)

Program Providers

(1)

Program Description

(1)

Fuzzy Specification

(1)

Requirements to User-Specific Functions

(5)

Specification of User Demands

(2)

Processing and Output

(3)

Privacy and Security Issues

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Agent Run-Time Environment

(8)

System Standards

(2)

DAVIC

(1)

DVB

(1)

Multimedia Standards in DAVIC and DVB Compared

(1)

Multimedia Standards

(2)

Multimedia and Hypermedia Experts Group Standard

(2)

HTML and JAVA

(1)

Dynamic Generation of Multimedia Applications

(4)

Virtual Object Store

(1)

Location of VOS

(1)

Comparison

(1)

Architecture of the Intelligent Media Agent

(8)

Multilayered Agent Approach

(1)

Module Description

(4)

Multimedia User Interface

(1)

Basic Agent Operating System

(2)

High-level Softbots

(1)

Communication Environment

(2)

Architecture

(1)

Discussion of Privacy and Security Aspects

(3)

Program Descriptors and User Profiles

(18)

Classification Units

(1)

Program Descriptors

(11)

Statistics

(4)

Genre

(7)

User Profile

(2)

Identification and Privacy Aspects

(1)

Desires and Demands

(1)

Time of Day, Day of Week, Holiday

(1)

Fuzzy Attributes

(1)

Attribute Types

(3)

Matching and Clustering

(18)

Matching Methods

(4)

Definition

(2)

Arithmetical Difference Method

(1)

Fuzzy Set Matching Method

(1)

Application to Attribute Types

(8)

Percent Attribute Type (PAT)

(2)

Number Attribute Type (NAT)

(2)

Discrete Attribute Type (DAT)

(1)

Hierarchy Attribute Type (HAT)

(2)

Multi-Attribute Types (MAT)

(2)

Matching Example

(3)

Clustering

(3)

Profile Initialization and Update

(12)

User Profiles Initialization

(5)

Explicit Profile Specification

(1)

Specification by Individual User Properties

(1)

Specification by Representative Program Examples

(1)

Initialization by Observation

(1)

Comparison

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

User Profile Reference Table

(3)

Definition of User Properties and Attributes

(1)

Definition of Initial User Profile Attributes

(1)

Results

(1)

Exceptions

(1)

Further Improvements

(1)

User Profile Updates

(2)

User Groups

101

(2)

Decision Support System

103

(8)

Characteristic Properties

103

(5)

Visitors

103

(1)

Program Changes

103

(1)

Periodic Events

104

(1)

Zapping

104

(3)

Sleeping

107

(1)

User Behavior Variables

108

(1)

Reaction to Zapping

109

(2)

Implementation and Testing

111

(24)

Implementation based on the MHEG Standard

111

(4)

User Interface Agent and Presentation Objects

112

(1)

MHEG Engine

113

(1)

Multimedia Store

114

(1)

Management Components

115

(1)

Implementation of the Electronic Program Guide Application

115

(14)

MHEG Prototype Implementation

116

(1)

HTML/JAVA Prototype Implementation

117

(2)

Comparison of MHEG and JAVA Approach

119

(1)

Results of Clustering

120

(9)

Evaluation with Respect to Requirements

129

(4)

General Remarks

129

(1)

Requirements

129

(4)

Summary

133

(2)

Conclusions

135

(20)

Classification

136

(1)

Suggested Extensions

136

(19)

Exploration of New Interests

137

(1)

Content Based Retrieval

137

(1)

Information Broker

137

(1)

Automated TV Program Director

138

(1)

Other Information Systems

138

(17)

Appendix A: Genre Trees

155

(6)

Appendix B: Personal EPG Application based on JAVA

161

(2)

Appendix C: The Administration Tool

163

(4)

Appendix D: Sample Hit List

167


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