HyperNews: the Implementation of the Prototype and Assessment

This paper reports on the implementation of a prototype hypermedia electronic newspaper environment called HyperNews. The HyperNews project is based on agent technology and it’s goal is dual: enable the information provider to commercialize multimedia news articles in terms similar to those of a printed newspaper, while helping the information consumers to drastically reduces time spent in searching for and retrieving “interesting” information. The system enforces the copyright control and payment on a “pay per use” basis. The retrieval task is handled by the HyperNews system according to the interests of the reader. Moreover, HyperNews establishes intraand cross-newspaper hyperlinks to information topics and present the information consumer a personalized electronic hypermedia newspaper through a traditional Java based World-Wide Web browser.