Customisable off-line Web browsing with mobile software agents

This paper presents a server-side multi-agent architecture aimed at increasing the efficiency of Internet browsing. The agent system uses the user profile to monitor the user's favourite Web sites, to construct customised views of those sites, and to inform the user through a Web interface. The proposed agent architecture allows customisation of the user's preferences, providing the user with a virtual home environment for the Web. It therefore optimises the user's regular browsing pattern in a location transparent manner. After describing a prototype implementation, the paper discusses architectural alternatives aimed at improving its scalability.