INVAID: an Intelligent NaVigational AID for the World Wide Web

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User modelling and information filtering are two techniques that can be used for the personalisation of an information system. With user modelling, a model of a user's areas of interest can be constructed from previous interactions with the system. Two key techniques of information filtering are collaborative filtering and content based filtering. Collaborative filtering organises users with similar interests into peer groups, thus enabling the recommendation of documents considered interesting by some of the peer group to other members of that group. Content based filtering, on the other hand, compares the contents of documents with a user profile and selects those documents whose contents best match the user profile. Using a combination of these techniques, the navigational aid in the INVAID system tracks a user's navigation on the World Wide Web and subsequently recommends pages of potential interest. (3 pages)

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