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A System Architecture For Supporting Event Based Interaction And Information Access
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@MISC{Dew_asystem,
author = {Peter Dew and David Morris and Peter Dew and Christine Leigh and Leeds England and Leeds England},
title = {A System Architecture For Supporting Event Based Interaction And Information Access},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The University of Leeds Virtual Science Park (VSP) is an example of a virtual working system for supporting the provision of a number of services, including virtual consultancy, workbased learning, consortium building and access to information. This paper presents a new architecture based on event mechanisms. The extensions fall into 3 areas: provision of timely, up-to-date information based on users' interests; integration with existing information sources; and chance interaction. The main problems addressed are facilities for keeping the VSP information up to date and keeping users notified of relevant changes to the data. Integration with existing data sources is also key to the provision of an information space capable of supporting VSP services. We describe an event mechanism to support information location, information monitoring, chance interaction and integration with existing information sources. The system will be used in a VSP Workbased learning project for supplying multime...
Keyphrases
system architecture information access event mechanism chance interaction information source vsp service main problem data source information space capable information location virtual working system new architecture information monitoring leeds virtual science park relevant change up-to-date information virtual consultancy consortium building vsp information
