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This paper discusses the use of Evolving Personal Agent Environments as a potential solution to the problem of information overload as experienced in habitual Web surfing. Some first experimental results on evolving user profiles using speciating hybrid GAs, the reasoning behind them and support for their potential application in mobile, wireless and location aware information devices are also presented.
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Pagonis, J., Sinclair, M.C. (2001). Evolving User Profiles to Reduce Internet Information Overload. In: John, R., Birkenhead, R. (eds) Developments in Soft Computing. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 9. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1829-1_12
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