IEICE Trans - Anonymous P2P Web Browse History Sharing for Web Page Recommendation


Anonymous P2P Web Browse History Sharing for Web Page Recommendation

Makoto IGUCHI
Shigeki GOTO

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E90-D    No.9    pp.1343-1353
Publication Date: 2007/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.9.1343
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Software Agent and Its Applications)
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Keyword: 
web,  user profile,  information retrieval,  anonymity,  p2p network,  

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Summary: 
This paper proposes a new method for realizing the web page recommendation system by sharing users' web browse history on an anonymous P2P network. Our scheme creates a user profile, a summary of the user's web browse trends, by analyzing the contents of the web pages browsed. The scheme then provides a P2P network to exchange web browse histories so as to create mutual web page recommendations. The novelty of our method lies in its P2P network formulation; it is formulated in a way so that users having similar user profiles are automatically connected, yet their user profiles are protected from being disclosed to other users. The proposed method intentionally distributes bogus user profiles on the P2P network, while not harming the efficiency of the web browse history sharing process.


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