Intelligent filtering of multimedia documents such as World Wide Web (WWW) pages is an extremely difficult task to automate.
However, the determination of a page's relevance to one's interests is a skill that comes with ease to most humans. This paper
outlines a system architecture, developed using Agent Oriented Design (AOD), aimed at providing page filtering within a limited
domain. This domain is specified via an explicit taxonomy. A prototype system was built using this architecture, which draws
upon a user's innate ability to determine the relevance of web pages to their own information needs. It is argued that the
resulting system incorporates the best aspects of existing Automated Collaborative Filtering (ACF) systems, whilst still retaining
the benefits of the more traditional, feature based approach. In support of this claim and the general success of these systems,
initial evaluation of the system is also reported.
This research was sponsored by Broadcom éireann Research Ltd.