Task Memories and Task Forums: A Foundation for Sharing Service-Based Personal Processes

Abstract

The growing number of online accessible services call for effective techniques to support users in discovering, selecting, and aggregating services. We present WS-Advisor, a framework for enabling users to capture and share task memories. A task memory represents knowledge (e.g., context and user rating) about services selection history for a given task. WS-Advisor provides a declarative language that allows users to share task definitions and task memories with other users and communities. The service selection component of this framework enables a user agent to improve its service selection recommendations by leveraging task memories of other user agents with which the user share tasks in addition to the local task memories.

Implicit Culture Framework for Behavior Transfer

“…To support such information exchange, the idea of applying recommendation systems for discovering and selecting web services has been recently proposed (Bova et al, 2007;Kerrigan, 2006;Manikrao & Prabhakar, 2005;Sherchan et al, 2006).…”