As an example of distributed personalization in a pervasive computing environment,
this paper describes a PDA-based personal agent \wine guru" that works hand-in-
hand with an on-board supermarket shopping program, and also with a server-based
datamining program that provides personalized wine lists. The guru ascertains which
list of the store's wines from the server best matches the user's tastes in wine, keeps an
eye on the user's on-board wine cellar list, and can read the shopping list that the user
is preparing and suggest wines to go with some of the items after asking how they will
be prepared. The user may elect to add some of the suggested wines to the shopping
list, or choose from the wine cellar. For portability, a subset of Java with a VM small
enough to t onto a PalmPilot was used. It provided all the needed functionality, and
acceptable response time.
By: George S. Almasi, Albert J. Lee
Published in: RC21635 in 2000
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