Active Repository Systems
Yunwen Ye
Cleaver Retreat
June 14, 2001
Beyond searching and browsing
• Problems
– People can ask for information they don’t know exist
– Unable to articulate their needs in a well-defined query
– Unable to browse a large repository if they don’t know
the structure well enough
• One solution: Active delivery
– What the task at hand is
– What does the user know already
Agent-based personalized delivery of
information
Concept: Create a random
number between two limits
Constraint: int <- int x int
Programmers
Examples
Programming Environment
Reuse
Queries
Listener
reuse
Fetcher
Component
Repository
Retrieved
Components
Presenter
User profile
Help caregivers find relevant resources
• Problems -> Solutions
– Reuse examples of scripts for prompting systems
• Problems -> Problems
– Help create a community with similar concerns
– Create opportunities for collaboration
• Delivering new information
– Match the new information to personal interests and
needs