An Interface Agent for the Management of COTS-based User Interfaces

Jose F. Sobrino, Javier Criado, Jesus Vallecillos, Nicolas Padilla, Luis Iribarne

2013

Abstract

The great development of the knowledge society on the Internet requires that Web information systems are adapted at runtime to user groups with common interests. Interface agents help us to observe and learn from user preferences making interfaces adaptable to user working habits. We propose an interface agent which works on Web interface based on COTS components, adapting the interface to the user needs or preferences. Our agent runs two main behaviors: observation behavior which analyses the user interaction on the interface and a second behavior which runs the adaptation actions to adapt the user interface at runtime.

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in Harvard Style

Sobrino J., Criado J., Vallecillos J., Padilla N. and Iribarne L. (2013). An Interface Agent for the Management of COTS-based User Interfaces . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8565-38-9, pages 397-402. DOI: 10.5220/0004257903970402


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart13,
author={Jose F. Sobrino and Javier Criado and Jesus Vallecillos and Nicolas Padilla and Luis Iribarne},
title={An Interface Agent for the Management of COTS-based User Interfaces},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2013},
pages={397-402},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004257903970402},
isbn={978-989-8565-38-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - An Interface Agent for the Management of COTS-based User Interfaces
SN - 978-989-8565-38-9
AU - Sobrino J.
AU - Criado J.
AU - Vallecillos J.
AU - Padilla N.
AU - Iribarne L.
PY - 2013
SP - 397
EP - 402
DO - 10.5220/0004257903970402