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WebMate
Head: Katia Sycara
Contact: Lori R Price (lrprice@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: CIMDS
Associated lab/group: Intelligent Software Agents

For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - February 2006.

WebMate, a personal digital assistant, is a promising solution to the problem of finding useful information among a sea of texts and other web documents. By accompanying users as they browse the Internet, the WebMate agent 1) provides URL recommendations dynamically, 2) offers ever more relevant web documents, 3) responds to user feedback, and 4) compiles a daily newspaper with links to documents of interest to the user.

The WebMate architecture consists of a stand-alone proxy that monitors the user's actions to provide information for learning and search refinement, and an applet controller that interacts with the user.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Joseph Andrew Giampapa - Project Manager <garof@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Katia Sycara - Research Professor <katia@cs.cmu.edu>

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• WebMate: A Personal Agent for Browsing and Searching
  L. Chen and K. Sycara
  Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, AGENTS '98, ACM, May, 1998, pp. 132 - 139. [Abstract]
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