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We present a decision-theoretic model which determines whether to pre-send web documents a user is likely to request. Our model balances the cost of transmitting information with the inconvenience or cost to a user caused by having to wait for information. It uses a Markov model built from web-access data to predict which documents are likely to be requested next. A comparative evaluation of our presending scheme identifies circumstances in which our scheme is beneficial for users.
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Nicholson, A.E., Zukerman, I., Albrecht, D.W. (1998). A decision-theoretic approach for pre-sending information on the WWW. In: Lee, HY., Motoda, H. (eds) PRICAI’98: Topics in Artificial Intelligence. PRICAI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1531. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095302
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