Agents and Hybrid Systems
Multi-agent Based Hybrid System for Dynamic Web-Content Adaptation
Jaewoo Cho1
, Seunghwa Lee1
and Eunseok Lee1 
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School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Chunchun Jangahn Suwon 440-746, Korea |
Abstract
Context-aware adaptation service is rapidly becoming an important issue. This service overcomes the limitations of wireless
devices and maintains adequate service levels in changing environments. The majority of existing studies concentrate on adaptation
modules on the client, proxy, or server. These existing studies thus suffer from the problem of having the workload concentrated
on a single system. This means that increasing the number of users increases the response time of a user’s request. In this
paper, the adaptation module is dispersed and arranged over the client, proxy, and server. The module monitors the context
of each system and creates a dispersed adaptation system, optimized for efficient operation. Through this method, faster adaptation
work is made possible, even when the number of users increases, and the dividing workload makes more stable system operation
possible. In order to evaluate the proposed system, a prototype is constructed and dispersed operations are tested using multimedia
content, simulating server overload and comparing the response times and system stability with existing server based adaptation
systems. The effectiveness of the system is confirmed through the results.
This work was supported in parts by Ubiquitous Autonomic Computing and Network Project, 21th Century Frontier R&D Program, MIC, Korea, ITRC IITA-2005-(C1090-0501-0019), Grant No. R01-2006-000-10954-0, Basic Research Program of the Science & Engineering Foundation, and the Post-BK21 Project.