{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Pre-sending Documents on the WWW: A Comparative Study","authors":[{"name":"David W. Albrecht","slug":"david-w-albrecht","given":"David W.","family":"Albrecht","affiliation":""},{"name":"Ingrid Zukerman","slug":"ingrid-zukerman","given":"Ingrid","family":"Zukerman","affiliation":""},{"name":"Ann E. Nicholson","slug":"ann-e-nicholson","given":"Ann E.","family":"Nicholson","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Users' waiting time for information on the WWW may be reduced by pre-sending documents they are likely to request, albeit at a possible expense of additional transmission costs. In this paper, we describe a prediction model which anticipates the documents a user is likely to request next, and present a decisiontheoretic approach for pre-sending documents based on the predictions made by this model. We introduce two evaluation methods which measure the immediate and the eventual benefit of pre-sending a document. We use these evaluation methods to compare the performance of our decision-theoretic policy to that of a naive pre-sending policy, and to identify the domain parameter configurations for which each of these policies provides a clear overall benefit to the user.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/181","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/0181.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/181.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/bibtex/181","volume":{"slug":"1999","title":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1999","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/","year":1999,"location":"Stockholm, Sweden","dates":"","editors":"Thomas Dean","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Uncertainty and Probabilistic Reasoning","track":"Uncertainty and Probabilistic Reasoning","number":181,"pages":{"first":1274,"last":1278},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}