Intelligent agent-based system for personalized broadcasting services

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent system for personalized broadcasting services. The proposed system employs the intelligent agent technology of Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) as well as metadata generation technology of MPEG-7 MDS and TV-Anytime Forum (TVAF). The proposed broadcasting environment includes user preference, information mobility, and content-based retrieval services. To verify the usefulness of the intelligent and personalized TV watching environment, we implemented a test-bed and demonstrated the proposed agent system with three services including intelligent user-information management service, information mobility service, and content retrieval service.