Donna - A web based AI Personal Assistant

A Personal Assistant for Web Database Caching

To improve the performance of web database access for regular users, we have developed a client caching agent, referred to as a personal assistant. In addition to caching strategies based on data characteristics and user specification, the personal assistant dynamically prefetches information based on previously monitored user access patterns. It is part of an overall multi-layered caching sche...

Personal Assistant: A Case Study on Web Service vs. Web Based Application

♣Computer Science Department, Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York ♦Computer Science Department, NAC 8-206, City College of New York, 138th Street at Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA. Tel: 212-650-6216. Fax: 212-650-6248. Email: [email protected] ♥Computer Science Department, The Graduate Center/CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA. ...

Querying and personalizing the Web: a multimedia personal assistant

PCA: Jini-based Personal Card Assistant

We describe the Personal Card Assistant, a scenario that brings together PDAs and smart cards. The underlying idea is that a PDA acts as a personal device for controlling a smart card attached to it using an asymmetric key pair. We describe how such an approach can be used for creating digital signatures: in particular, we can circumvent the problems involved with untrusted document viewers in ...

A Web-Based Annotator-Assistant Tool

In recent years, the rapid accumulation of biological data and the corresponding enormous growth in the number of published research papers has rendered data annotation and literature searching immensely laborious tasks. The problems are particularly acute for biocurators, who often need to move quickly and easily, say, from a set of biomolecular sequences, to relevant literature search terms, ...