An Intelligent Adaptive News Filtering System

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to sincerely thank my research advisor, Dr. Daniel A. Reed, for his kind guidance and support along the development of this thesis. Thank him for providing me with this opportunity to benefit from his knowledge. I would like to thank the members of the Pablo group who have helped and encouraged me in my work. I would like to thank Eric Shaffer, Don Schmidt and Jim Oly for giving me a hand whenever I met difficulties. Thanks are also due to for testing the recommendation system and providing helpful comments. I am also indebted to Deborah Israel for her valuable proofreading. At last, I dedicate this thesis to my dear husband Yanning Liu for his encouragement and patience throughout my thesis writing. Without his help, it would be much difficult for me to reach this point.