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The WWW (World Wide Web) is the most popular system on the Internet, with
the user-friendly interfaces provided by browsers such as Navigator and IE,
more and more people are doing their information distribution and acquisition
via WWW. However, the rapid growth of the number of homepages on the
WWW has made most people lost in the sea of information. Although some
search engines provide search services to help users, people using the search
services are often disappointed by the large and bad-organized list returned by
these search engines. Users have to type as many keywords as possible in the
query form and hope the search engines can retrieve the most related
homepages. This is because that the search engines are general services to the
public, they can not organize the search result for each individual.
We propose a personal proxy server in this thesis that not only provides cache
mechanism for browsers but also analyzes the user browsing behavior without
disturbing the normal browsing activity of the user. The
personal proxy server is
also the fundamental component of intelligent agent systems and serves as a
personal agent. The kept browsing pattern in this personal proxy server can be
deemed as user preference that can provide useful assistance for advanced
services. Base on the personal proxy, we can develop personal service
applications such as personal search engine that satisfies personal information
need. This program is totally written in Java such that it is a platform
independent application that can be run anywhere that has a supporting Java
virtual machine.
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