---
title: "Pre-sending Documents on the WWW: A Comparative Study"
authors:
  - "David W. Albrecht"
  - "Ingrid Zukerman"
  - "Ann E. Nicholson"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/181"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/0181.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1999
pages: "1274-1278"
track: "Uncertainty and Probabilistic Reasoning"
keywords:
---

# Pre-sending Documents on the WWW: A Comparative Study

David W. Albrecht, Ingrid Zukerman, Ann E. Nicholson

*Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1274-1278.

## 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.