EUROgatherer: A personalized gathering and delivery service on the Web

Undoubtedly, to rely on a personalised gathering and delivering service is an emerging need of most user's seeking on the Internet for information. We have presented the EUROgatherer service architecture which would help such users. Indeed the EUROgatherer service architecture (i) allows advanced user profiling; (ii) accesses multiple information sources available over the Internet; (iii) has customised deliver modalities defined in terms of the delivery medium (Web, email, SMS) and defined in terms of the delivery time (at a specific time, timed interval, as soon as possible). Moreover, besides offering all the above features, from a architectural point of view, we point out that the EUROgatherer service architecture is made out of a pool of standalone, and autonomous services, each offering specific functionalities. This allows it to be easily extended with other services, compliant to the common user profile model and the inter-communication protocol based on http making it a through appealing. Though EUROgatherer, as outcome of an EU project, is a prototype, it offers several interesting functionalities. Most of them and the experience gained through the project have already be transferred by the commercial partners of the project into their products.