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Design and implementation of a smart system for personalization and accurate selection of mobile services

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Wireless mobile services are computing applications that run on handheld wireless devices. Such applications must work within the daunting constraints of the devices, which include memory, processing power, input capabilities, and size of display. It is therefore important that mobile services take into account the user’s context, optimize resource usage, and minimize input effort imposed on the user. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a smart agent-enabled system for personalizing wireless mobile services and advertisements for Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) or Java ME, and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) enabled devices. We use software agents for context filtering because such autonomous software entities have characteristics that can benefit mobile devices and the wireless environment, and the Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP) standard for defining profiles for user preferences and device capabilities. The system incorporates the use of artificial neural networks to adaptively and iteratively learn to select the best available service based on contextual information. The system is evaluated using practical operating scenarios, as well as empirical data and results show an 87% success rate in the selection of the best available service.

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This research was supported in part by the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grant Number 045635.

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    Qusay H. Mahmoud, Eyhab Al-Masri & Zhixin Wang

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Mahmoud, Q.H., Al-Masri, E. & Wang, Z. Design and implementation of a smart system for personalization and accurate selection of mobile services. Requirements Eng 12, 221–230 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-007-0051-3

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