French, James C.

Abstract: We describe the conceptual architecture of a Personalized Information Environment or PIE. A PIE allows unified highly customizable access to distributed information resources by providing users the tools to compose personalized collections from a palette of information resources The architecture also provides for the efficient exchange of internet resource meta information like collection statistics in order to maximize retrieval e ectiveness This paper includes the enunciation of the user centered PIE vision an architectural requirements specification and an architectural description that meets the specication and supports the vision. We also describe our current implementation and research efforts conducted within the PIE framework

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